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Alumnus Georgia Lewis is not only making her mark in the scientific side of the cannabis industry — she's helping inform and education cannabis workers through extended learning at Dalhousie.

Anti-Blackness lingers in nursing and continues to limit access for Black folks, writes PhD candidate Keisha Jefferies.

Faculty of Health researcher and RN Margot Latimer is the first Nova Scotia CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research) Indigenous Research Chair in Nursing, a chair designed to support the advancement of Indigenous health nursing research, education and practice.

The Nova Scotia research community has come together to respond to the current global pandemic with a collective investment of over $1.5 million in COVID-19-focused research.

Third-year medical student Livia Anthes and her classmates have been finding ways to give back to the community as their clinical learning is on hold during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Expertise matters — which is why Dal's next generation of academic advocates are ready to make their mark. Meet the PhD students who make up this year's cohort of OpenThinkers, and learn how you can follow along with their work in the months ahead.

COVID19 reduces ship traffic and creates a quieter than usual environment for whales and marine life, according to new findings from research led by Dal oceanography professor David Barclay.

Alum Maike van Niekerk, who became Dal’s 90th Rhodes Scholar just a few years ago, is about to embark on her next academic adventure as a student of medicine. She’ll do so with another prestigious global award in hand — the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship from Stanford University in California.

Dr. OmiSoore Dryden, the James R. Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies at Dal, discusses the impacts of COVID-19 on historically oppressed and marginalized communities and solutions for addressing them.

Pests can cause sudden and significant damage to homegrown food, but a little planning and intervention can help you cut your losses writes Agriculture postdoc Paul Manning.