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• Introducing the Sport Hall of Fame class of 2025!
  Five athletes and one team will be inducted into the Dalhousie Sport Hall of Fame in October.
  
• Making a whale of an entrance: 18‑metre blue whale skeleton installed at Dal
  Suspended from ceiling of the Steele Ocean Sciences Building is the skeleton of an adult blue whale found washed up in Nova Scotia, representing the centrepiece of the Beaty Centre for Marine Biodiversity and a powerful reminder of the need to protect our ocean and its inhabitants.
  
• Grad profile: An epic journey involving teeth
  Dentistry grad Jimmy Hall hits the road to Alaska on an 8,000-kilometre journey with his mom riding shotgun — while his wife and daughter fly ahead — to begin a bold new chapter in dentistry.
  
• Grad profile: The community connection
  Dr. Katherine Houser was inspired to pursue medicine after hearing stories of her mother's dedication as a nurse growing up. Now a family medicine resident, she champions equity, patient empowerment, and systemic reform, aiming to transform care in her hometown of Moncton.
  

• When friendship is treated as essential, what happens to young adults who don’t have any?
  A new study aims to understand how adults without friends experience and move through life.
  
• The MacEachen Institute, 10 years in: Dal's policy powerhouse caps decade with top book prize
  MacEachen Institute Director Kevin Quigley and former students won the Donner Prize for the best public policy book in Canada this year. Discover how the institute has empowered student researchers and shaped major policy debates over the past decade.
  
• MAGA’s ‘war on empathy’ might not be original, but it is dangerous
  MAGA’s distaste for empathy is less a well-meaning critique than an all-out war as figures like Elon Musk and Jordan Peterson incorrectly — and dangerously — dismiss it as weakness.
  
• Michelle Wang's remarkable path: From local activism to national recognition
  Discover how this recent Dal grad grew from a quiet student into a McCall MacBain Scholarship winner, driven by her passion for community service and academic excellence.
  
• Canada’s Africa strategy is a landmark moment for Canada‑Africa relations, but still needs work
  Canada has taken an important first step towards a more strategic, intentional and mutually beneficial relationship with Africa. But it must provide more concrete plans for its implementation.
  
• Students channel 1875, a year when body shaping still ruled the fashion world
  Nowadays, we think of altering one’s silhouette with clothing as ‘cheating,' but in the Victorian Period, it was expected. See how five Costume Studies students rose to the challenge of re-creating the iconic outfits of 1875.