Research & Innovation

Nipissing University actively supports quality research that creates a deeper, clearer understanding of the world. Excellent research could change the way we think and act. Research that creates paradigm shifting ideas or generates practical knowledge helps us to understand our world and to address immediate issues. Research also fuels teaching.

RESEARCH @ NU

Dr. Colin McCarter near pond

Colin McCarter examines the cumulative impacts of unprecedented climate and environmental disturbances on water quality.

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RESEARCH NEWS

  • Dr. Greer leads team to conference

    Research
    History Department
    Geography Department
    Dr. Kirsten Greer, Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Histories and Geographies and assistant professor of Geography and History, recently led a research team to the American Society of Environmental Historians Conference (ASEH) in Chicago and to the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in Boston.
  • 3MT at NU

    My Nipissing
    Research
    Brilliant graduate students are hard at work sharpening and condensing millions of ideas, thousands of hours, and hundreds of pages into one beautiful, streamlined and concise presentation to wow judges at the annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.
  • NU researchers earn SSHRC grants

    Research
    Three researchers at Nipissing University have earned close to half-a-million dollars in grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for work battling sex trafficking, determining why so many individuals don’t act to combat climate change, and to help kids be better people and teammates.
  • NU’s Integrative Watershed Analysis Centre studying Lake Nipissing

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    My Nipissing
    Alumni
    The work of Nipissing University’s Integrative Watershed Analysis Centre was featured recently in the journal Environmental Monitor. The article discusses the Bays Project the Centre is currently working on to build a better understanding of systems at work in and around Lake Nipissing, and how these systems might be manifesting in the lake, sometimes as the toxic blue green algae.
  • Showcasing student research at NU

    My Nipissing
    Research
    Top student researchers from every faculty investigating topics as diverse as early America to social media and Kinematics to sexuality and stereotypes will be showcasing their work this weekend during Nipissing University’s ninth annual Undergraduate Research Conference (UGRC), April 1 and 2, 2016.