News

Congratulations to our faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends on their recent achievements:

• Sara Kirk (Health and Human Performance) and Michelle Stone (Health and Human Performance) are co-principal investigators on "Can loose parts foster unstructured, self-directed, risky outdoor play?  A multi-level intervention in early years settings."  The project has received a Lawson Foundation Operating Grant in the amount of $200,000 over two years.  Co-investigators include Laurene Rehman (Health and Human Performance) and Jessie-Lee McIsaac (AHPRC).
• Karren Fader of the School of Health Sciences (above) has been elected President/Chair of the Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologists (CAMRT) Board of Directors.  Karren was elected to this post by her peers, and will serve for two years from July 1, 2016.  Read more on the CAMRT website.
  
• Nursing student Maike van Niekerk received the Red Cross Young Humanitarian Award in recognition of her work with Katrin's Karepackage - a program that she started in memory of her mother to help offset travel costs associated with appointments for cancer patients.  To raise money for the organization, Maike cycled across Newfoundland last summer, and plans to run across Newfoundland during her Christmas break.  Read more about Maike on Dal News, and check out the Katrin's Karepackage website to donate.
• Congratulations to Paul Spin, a PhD candidate in Dalhousie's Department of Economics, along with Katrina Hurley (Medicine), Ingrid Sketris (Pharmacy), Courtney Ward (Economics) and Barbara Hill-Taylor (Pharmacy), for their Poster Award in Clinical Research at the 2015 Canadian Association of Pediatric Health Centres conference.  Their research focussed on the benefits of inhalers versus nebulization for paediatric patients.