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December 2023

Alexa Goodman  –  Office of Sustainability, News, Community & Culture
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Dal's designation as a Bee Campus was awarded based on the strength of its commitment to creating habitats that foster the well-being and survival of pollinators such as bees.
Stephanie Rogers  –  Agriculture, Communications and Marketing
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Originally from India, a trio of Dal agriculture students who've adopted the name The Spice Girls came together in a lab in Truro to create a special chutney that reflects the flavours of home.
Thomas Scott  –  Sports, Health Professions, News, Community & Culture
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Dal became the first university in the province to sign onto Recreation Nova Scotia’s anti-racism charter, which provides guidelines on addressing systemic racism in sports and recreation programming.
Amanda Kirby-Sheppard  –  Law, News, Community & Culture
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Sheila Wildeman, an associate professor in the Schulich School of Law, received an Individual Nova Scotia Human Rights Award last Friday for her advocacy for the human rights of incarcerated people and people with disabilities.
Dani Silberman  –  Research, Oceans, Science
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Dalhousie researchers collected air samples in Newfoundland during 2021's Hurricane Larry to better understand how microsplastics travel through the atmosphere.
Janet Music and Sylvain Charlebois  –  Agriculture, News
Monday, December 11, 2023
The cost of feeding a table full of people may be too much for the average Canadian to bear this holiday season.
Theresa Anne Salah  –  News, Engineering, Community & Culture
Friday, December 8, 2023
Dalhousie's Women in Engineering group held a vigil on Sexton Campus Wednesday evening to honour the victims of the École Polytechnique mass shooting. See images from the ceremony.
Alison Auld  –  Medicine, Research
Friday, December 8, 2023
The finding challenges the belief that smoking marijuana is not harmful to the lungs, while adding to limited information on the effects of marijuana smoking and the combined effects of smoking marijuana and cigarettes.
Kim Humes  –  Agriculture, Research, News
Thursday, December 7, 2023
Everyone is talking about the cost of living, particularly at the grocery store. The researchers behind Canada’s most-watched food-price forecast insist that some relief is coming.
Paige Smithson  –  Sports
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
This weekend wrapped up the first half of the Tiger’s season with the hockey teams battling it out on the ice.