News Archive

The Belong Forums — the cornerstone of Dal 200's "Year of Belonging" initiative, focused on sparking important discussions around diversity and inclusion — kicked off Wednesday night with MIT historian Craig Steven Wilder considering links between the histories of higher education and slavery.

The Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative launches new tools to prevent radicalization leading to violence within Canada.

For the second year in a row, a student team from the Faculty of Agriculture has won the Junior Design category of the Canadian Engineering Competition. The team of four took home top prize for its cargo handler prototype.

In a contribution to The Conversation Canada, Dr. Stan Kutcher (Sun Life Financial Chair in Adolescent Mental Health) writes that youth mental illness rates are not rising. We don’t need more pills or therapy; we need to stop pathologizing normal life.

An in-depth look at “Drums and Organs,” a brand new production based on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” penned for Dal's 200th anniversary and performed by students in Dal’s Fountain School of Performing Arts.

For "Drums and Organs" — the Fountain School's modern spin on Frankenstein for Dal's 200th anniversary — every stitch has been thoughtfully schemed and sewn by students in Dal's Costume Studies program.

A crowdfunding campaign is underway to support a new emergency microbursary program at Dalhousie, one that will offer small bursaries of up to $500 for first- and second-year students with urgent or unexpected financial needs. The campaign’s first donors: Dalhousie President Richard Florizone and his wife, Dr. Mona Holmlund, with a personal commitment of $50,000 in matching funds.

From campus to the community, Dalhousie's best and brightest students go above and beyond in their quest to make a difference. Meet the five exceptional individuals receiving the university’s top award for student life this year: Yaser Alkayale (Computer Science), Leah Carrier (Nursing), Jeremy Stroud (International Food Business), Martha Paynter (Nursing, PhD) and Jad Sinno (Psychiatry Research, master’s).

On Saturday, March 24, the Fountain School of Performing Arts presents "Called to Action: Living Reconciliation Through Song," an empowering and important choral event.