Over the past two weeks, President Richard Florizone has been hosting “Inspiration and Impact: Our Year in Review” sessions across all four Dalhousie campuses. The events have been an opportunity to discuss Dal’s progress towards the goals of its Strategic Direction, share highlights from the past year and answer questions from the Dal community.
Read more: President Florizone offers annual year-in-review
As part of his presentation, President Florizone shared short video clips demonstrating how Dalhousie's students, faculty and staff bring the Strategic Direction to life. Now that the year-in-review sessions are complete, we’re sharing those videos here on Dal News — each covering a different one of the Strategic Direction’s priority areas.
Editor’s note: For the Partnerships and Reputation priority area, President Florizone discussed the forthcoming IDEA Building project for Dal’s Sexton Campus. Look for more coverage on this initiative in the future.
(Videos shot and edited by Bruce Bottomley.)
Teaching and Learning: Collaborative health education
A great example of innovation in teaching and can be found in one of Dal's newest campuses spaces: the Collaborative Health Education Building on Carleton Campus. Inside, students and faculty are working together to transform how we educate health professionals across disciplines, leading to more collaborative family and patient-centred care.
Research: Jeff Dahn Research Group
This past year, Dal battery researcher Jeff Dahn (Departments of Physics & Atmospheric Science and Chemistry) not only began a new research program with Tesla — the first with any North American university — but received one of the inaugural Governor General’s Awards for Innovation.
Service: 3Meals and Dal's Cultiv8 Sandbox
Dal hosts three sandboxes: collaborative spaces to help student entrepreneurs take business concepts from idea to execution. One of the recent initiatives to come out of Cultiv8, Dal's agricultural sandbox, is 3MEALS, a business started by third-year Agriculture students Holly Fisher and Hartley Prosser. Their product: mealworm flour. It tastes better than you think.
Infrastructure and Support: Elders in Residence program
One of Dalhousie's key strategic priorities is focused on diversity and inclusiveness, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for all who study and work at the university. Related to those efforts, Dal launched its Elders in Residence program last year. Linked with the new Indigenous Studies minor program, but accessible to anyone on campus, five Elders are available to students and others to offer guidance, counsel and support.