News

July 12, 2012

Summer Student’s experience sampling water at Noell Lake.

June 28, 2012

The new publication, Northern Public Affairs is bringing fresh ideas and analysis to pressing public policy issues affecting Northern Canadians.

June 8, 2012

Roberta Bondar, Canada’s first woman astronaut is coming to Fort Smith! Come out to her presentation Monday June 11th.

May 28, 2012

A MSc Student Position is open for a collaboration project between Donald Baird (Canadian Rivers Institute, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick) and Sarah Rosolen (Aurora Research Institute, Fort Smith, Northwest Territories).The student would be registered in the graduate program in the Biology at UNB Fredericton, but would have the opportunity to spend extended periods conducting field work in northern communities.

February 16, 2012

The Tlicho Healing Wind Project is designed to develop sexual health intervention strategies including the Aurora College Speaker Series. The Aurora College Speaker Series was developed to increase public awareness and to engage research dialogue.

February 1, 2012

Each year, the Aurora Research Institute awards funding in support of research in the NWT.  Two sources of funds are available: the Research Assistant Program provides up to $2,500 towards wages for hiring northern residents as research assistants, and the Research Fellowship Program provides up to $6,000 to help offset the expenses associated with northern research. For more information, or to […]

May 19, 2011

Aurora College’s headquarters for scientific research in the NWT moved to new and better digs in April. Aurora Research Institute – which previously operated out of a building in Inuvik dating back to the 1960s, when the: institute was administered by the federal government – will now have as its new home the federally-funded Western […]