NORTH BAY -- Seven researchers from Nipissing University in North Bay are receiving funding for their work on studies and projects.

The funding for the awards is coming from the Federal Governments Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council or Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council.

One of the seven researchers, Nipissing University Faculty of Arts and Science Professor Hilary Earl, completed a case study called ‘Murder On The Beach’. It looked into an execution performed in Latvia in 1941 by Nazi deployment forces. It used testimonies, photos and film footage.

“The research that I do requires me to travel to Germany, to Latvia, to Israel and the United States and this way I get to hire research assistants as well who can help me with this work,” says Earl.

Nipissing University says the funding will help the researchers further their studies with a large portion of the funding going towards students to help with the research projects.

“It’s a very, very intense competition. The researchers develop a research proposal and vet it through their colleagues at the university, vet it through colleagues of other universities and then they submit it to Ottawa for scrutiny,” says Nipissing University Dean of Graduate Studies and Research Jim McAuliffe

The other winners are psychology professor Steven Arnocky, physical and health education professor Brenda Bruner, sociology professor Amir Erfani, geography and history associate professor Kirsten Greer, associate professor of mathematics Logan Hoehn and math professor Vesko Valov.