Grants and Writing Resources for Laurentian University

At the 2026 Intercollegiate Mine Emergency Response Competition, which Laurentian hosted in Sudbury for the first time, the university's Mine Rescue Club placed first overall against eight other university teams from Canada and the United States, among them the Colorado School of Mines and West Virginia University. Later in 2026 a Master of Forensic Sciences student took thesis research to Montreal as a poster at the 31st Congress of the International Society for Forensic Genetics. The project examines 52 short tandem repeat markers across 315 individuals to improve DNA profiling from degraded evidence.

Summer Research Awards

In summer 2026, 24 Laurentian undergraduates held Undergraduate Student Research Awards funded by CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC, working full time on faculty research for 16 weeks from May to August. Their projects ranged widely. A fourth-year zoology student analyzed 54 years of midland painted turtle nesting data from Algonquin Provincial Park, a fourth-year architecture student studied urban design that supports children's well-being in mid-sized cities, and a third-year biomedical biology student compared yeast growth under normal and extremely low background radiation at SNOLAB.

The Office of Research Services posts the NSERC USRA call on its funding opportunities page.

Graduate Scholarships

The deans of each Faculty allocate the Dean's Entrance Scholarship to a limited number of meritorious graduate students, $1,500 for master's students and $3,000 for doctoral students, with no application required. Registered graduate students can also apply for donor-funded awards. The same page lists the external awards Laurentian students compete for, including the Ontario Graduate Scholarship, CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC master's awards of $27,000 for twelve months, doctoral awards of $40,000 a year for up to 36 months, and the Ontario Women's Health Scholars Award, which for 2026–27 pays doctoral recipients $35,000 plus a $2,000 research allowance.

Writing Support

The Virtual Backpack offers self-paced support online, including a Writing Skills workshop on the writing process and common mistakes, taken through the Getting It Write course in D2L. Peer Academic Specialists in Arts Building room A-127 give one-on-one help with writing and other academic work, bookable through the myLaurentian portal, and students can book virtual tutoring sessions through TutorOcean. Librarians supporting each faculty help students build research skills, in English and French.

Where Theses Are Published

Master's theses and doctoral dissertations accepted at Laurentian are preserved in the ETD collection of LU|ZONE|UL, the university's research repository.

When your draft is close and you want a careful last read, our editors are available. See our Laurentian University dissertation and thesis editing and Laurentian University essay editing pages, or write to editors@editorsforstudents.com.

From Our Writing Guides

• Treating the Personal Statement as a Scholarly Defense
• ESL Academic Writing: Overcoming Common Grammar Habits
• The Secret to Better Grades: Starting Your Writing Process Early