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Master of Engineering student Arad Gharagozli, founder and president of Dalhousie’s Space Systems Lab and CEO of GALAXIA Mission Systems, explains how SpaceX is changing the future of space exploration.

Poet, author and professor Afua Cooper took home one of Nova Scotia’s top artistic honours at the Creative Nova Scotia Awards gala this past weekend — one of multiple Dal award recipients at this year’s celebration of Nova Scotian artistic excellence.

A recent Dal-led study, published in Nature Communications, discovered that earthquakes and continental movements triggered massive underwater landslides tens of millions of years ago off the coast of East Africa — findings that could help assess the future risk of tsunamis to the increasingly populated coastline in the region.

Marsha Campbell-Yeo, a professor in Dal's School of Nursing, has undertaken a study looking into how families have coped with the new rules in Neonatal Intensive Care Units across Canada.

With the U.S. election now over and president-elect Joe Biden trying to create an orderly transition plan amid continued false accusations of election fraud from President Donald Trump, panelists from a Dal-hosted Open Dialogue event last month have returned to share their reactions.

There are effective ways to help reduce babies' pain during blood draws and injections, but they are used in less than 50 percent of routine medical procedures involving newborns, write Dalhousie's Marsha Campbell-Yeo and St. Francis Xavier University's Britney Benoit.

Following the tragic shooting rampage that cost the lives of 23 Nova Scotians in April, Adrian Delli Colli and Ireland Thurler were spurred to action — walking from Portapique to Enfield to raise money they now plan to use to create a scholarship fund for the victim's families.

Drugmaker Pfizer's news this week that its experimental vaccine is more than 90 percent effective in preventing COVID-19 was met with much jubilance. Dr. Scott Halperin, a professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, explains what comes next in Pfizer's large-scale clinical trial, how significant a 90 percent efficacy rate is, and how vaccines will be distributed.

In his latest column, President Deep Saini shares two experiences from the past week where he witnessed the ingenuity of Dal's people in managing the university's activities during the pandemic.

Run by partners and Dal alumni Jane Abbott (MArch ’06) and Alec Brown (MArch ’93), Abbott Brown Architects is the recipient of two 2019 Lieutenant Governor’s Awards of Merit for Excellence in Architecture.