News & Events

Pictures from Matheson field work

A few pictures from field work conducted in Matheson, May 2016:

Pictures from the Year End Banquet!

LU M.Sc. student wins the 2016 Mary-Claire Ward Geoscience Award

This year’s recipient of the Mary-Claire Ward Geoscience Award is Jordan McDivitt of Laurentian University...

LU student part of the SIFT geology winning team!

Congratulations to Philippe Trudel for winning the 2015 Student Industry Field Trip (SIFT) competition in Calgary, AB!

New graduate student research lab!

Graduate students can now use the following equipment in the research lab on the 5th floor...

More than $1000 raised in minerals auctions!

Students, faculty of DES and members of the broader geological community have been avidly bidding on rocks and minerals in the past months...

CIM Sudbury Branch donates $25,000

CIM Sudbury Branch representatives Sue Tessier and Trang Tran-Valade presented a $25,000 donation towards upgrading the Department of Earth Sciences’ petrographic microscope facilities...

New Microscopes!

The Goodman School of Mines’ generous donation of $ 50,000 allowed the Department of Earth Sciences to buy new Olympus BX41 microscopes and Lumenera cameras to accommodate our students’ learning and research.

Awards to DES Faculty: Geologists collect constellation of awards

Senior faculty members at Laurentian University’s Department of Earth Sciences and the Mineral Exploration Research Centre have been honoured with prestigious awards in their respective geological fields.