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News, Community & Culture, Human Resources
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Friday, June 23, 2017
Internationally known Buddhist monk Ajahn Brahm visited Dal this past week to share some of his trademark wit and wisdom about finding happiness during a talk as part of the university's "Work Well" strategy.
Research, Student Life, Science, Marine Biology
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Friday, June 23, 2017
Students in one Dal lab are learning from one another, across disciplines, as they try and better understand childhood cancers with the aid of an unlikely accomplice: the tropical zebrafish.
Research, Medicine
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Thursday, June 22, 2017
Researchers at Dalhousie and Mount Saint Vincent universities have been awarded $1.5 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research that will help with the development an earlier, more definitive way of diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease.
News, Human Resources
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Thursday, June 22, 2017
The results from the 2017 Quality of Work Life (QWL) Survey are now available to the Dal community — information that will help Human Resources and leaders across the university work together with faculty and staff to build a stronger, healthier workplace at Dal.
Research, Medicine
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Thursday, June 22, 2017
Through a network called BRIC NS — Building Research for Integrated Primary Health Care, Nova Scotia — Dal researchers are mobilizing health-care professionals, managers, policy makers, learners and citizens in research to re-shape the delivery of care.
Agriculture, Student Life
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Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Plant Sciences student Cheyenne MacDonald, a member of the Sipekne'katik band in Indian Brook, has a passion for traveling and learning from other cultures. But her biggest dream is to start a business using traditional knowledge from her own.
Dal 200, News, Science
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Wednesday, June 21, 2017
The Great Debate, scheduled for November 2018, will bring together world-leading thinkers in ocean science and space studies in a public discussion centred on the question, “What is the next frontier: space or the ocean?”
Computer Science, News, Informatics
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Wednesday, June 21, 2017
This week, Dal hosts Canada's national conference for the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. We connected with Computer Science prof Srini Sampalli — 3M Teaching Fellow and vice-president of the Canadian chapter of the International Federation of National Teaching Fellows — to discuss what goes into great teaching.
Mechanical Engineering, Student Life, Engineering
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Tuesday, June 20, 2017
As part of a mandatory first-year class focused on design skills, a team of Dal students got a unique hands-on learning experience working on improvements to the special throwing chair of Cape Breton-born Paralympian Pamela LeJean.
Computer Science, News, Informatics
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Monday, June 19, 2017
Nur Zincir-Heywood received the 2017 Women Leaders in the Digital Economy Award from Digital Nova Scotia, which recognizes an individual who has made a significant contribution to Nova Scotia’s ICT sector while actively championing women in the field.