Undergraduate Research

In you are interested in more information about the Honours programs at Acadia, please contact the individual department of interest to you. The Graduate Studies webpage for Prospective Students also lists research interests of faculty with interests in supervising graduate students.

Departments offering Honours Programs:

• Biology
• Business Administration
• Canadian Studies
• Chemistry
• Community Development
• Computer Science
• Earth & Environmental Science (Environmental Geoscience, Environmental Science & Geology)
• Economics
• English and Theatre Studies
• Environmental & Sustainable Studies
• Languages & Literatures (French, German & Spanish)
• History and Classics
• Kinesiology
• Mathematics and Statistics
• Music
• Nutrition
• Philosophy
• Physics
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Women's Studies

Any questions regarding regulations, deadlines, extensions, etc. should be directed to the Research & Graduate Studies Administrative Office at (902) 585-1498. 

Templates

Please note that templates may be provided by your Department/School or the Learning Technologies Centre, however it is the responsibility of each student to ensure that their thesis conforms to the formatting required by the Division of Research and Graduate Studies as outlined in the Honours Thesis Regulations.

Formatting Requirements

The inside binding edge must be at least 1.5”. The sections of the introductory pages, and each new chapter in the main body of the thesis and each new section that follows the main body of the thesis, will start on the right-hand page of your “book”.  This may require inserting a blank page at the end of a section or chapter.  Please refer to the Honours Thesis Regulations for complete formatting details.

Dates:

• August 30, 2019 - Last day to receive honours thesis at for external review for Fall Term. NOTE:  You must submit a completed Thesis Checklist Form with your thesis at this time.
• September 20, 2019  - Last day to receive completed honours thesis and submit your electronic copy for Fall Term.

2017-2018 Senate Honours Committee Chair: Dr. Matthew Lukeman (September 1, 2017 - August 31, 2018)

Documents and links:

• Request for Co-Authorship of Honours Thesis
• Request for Extension of Honours Thesis Submission
• Honours Thesis Regulations
• Thesis Checklist Form
• Guidelines for External Readers
• Information on Ethesis submission
• Thesis Templates from The Learning Technologies Centre
  

Honours Summer Research Awards (HSRA)

• HSRA Poster
• 2018 HSRA application

NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA)

• USRA Poster
• USRA online NSERC Application
• USRA Form Part III Research Aptitude - NEW for 2018

Webster Undergraduate Research Awards

The Webster Undergraduate Research Awards have been made possible through the generous support of the R. Howard Webster Foundation. The Foundation makes grants to outstanding Canadian charitable organizations offering unique and inspiring programs or projects for the benefit, improvement, and development of Canadian society.

The Webster Undergraduate Research Awards are designed to support the engagement of Acadia’s most promising undergraduate Honours students in unique research work of their design.  The Fund provides a total of $17,500 to support three awards ($5833 each) to Honours students in their 3^rd year of study at Acadia University.   Recipients are chosen from the applications for the Honours Summer Research Awards. One student from each Faculty is selected by the HSRA adjudication committee based on their academic record and the quality of their research grant application.

At the time the application is made, the student must:

• Be entering the final year of an Acadia University Honours Degree.
• Have a minimum 3.5 GPA as of January 2018.
• Have applied for a full time, 16 week Honours Summer Research Award