News Archive

A community partnership has resulted in the creation of the William Dennis Chair in Pediatric Epilepsy Research. The chair, which is the first of its kind in Canada, and will be located at the IWK Health Centre.

Springboard, a new region-wide research network, will help to take knowledge from the lab to the marketplace. Industry leaders and entrepreneurs were invited to the launch of Springboard to learn about research commercialization opportunities.

In order to prevent spamming organizations from "harvesting" Dalhousie email addresses, University Computing and Information Services (UCIS) has placed an additional security level on the university LDAP directory.

Congratulations to the outstanding scholars and graduates who were recognized with medals at the recent convocation ceremonies.

Delegates at a workshop offered in conjunction with the launch of the Dalhousie University's Privacy and Security Lab heard today that university applicants all over North America continue to shy away from computer and highly technical education, despite strong job opportunities in the field.

Dalhousie Computer Science Professor, Srinivas Sampalli has been named as one of the prestigious 3M Teaching Fellows for 2005.

Dalhousie marks the launch of a unique, multi-disciplinary Privacy and Security Lab (PSL) together with some of North America's leading authorities on IT security and privacy issues, including Symantec, the PSL's primary private sector sponsor.

At this time of the year, we pause to share in the celebration of our students' accomplishments. It is also fitting to celebrate excellence in the classroom. Congratulations are offered to Dr. S. Srinivas, of the Faculty of Computer Science, who has won a national 3M Teaching Fellowship Award.