April 2015
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The Ocean Tracking Network is the first Canadian Associate Data Unit of the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange under UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission.
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Thursday, April 16, 2015
Two new cancer studies out of Dalhousie Medical School have shown success in testing safer, less toxic treatments for a rare form of pediatric leukemia called T-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia (T-ALL). The studies were published by first-year medical student, Victoria Bentley, and Drs. Graham Dellaire and Jason Berman, associate professors in the Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics, respectively.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Dalhousie is pleased to award 10 honorary degrees to extraordinary individuals during Spring Conovcation in May.
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Thursday, April 9, 2015
University Research Professor Hal Whitehead teamed up with fellow whale enthusiast and evolutionary biologist Luke Rendell, to consider cetacean culture in their recently published book, The Cultural Lives Of Whales And Dolphins.
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Thursday, April 9, 2015
Each year the Canada Research Chairs Program invests approximately $265 million to attract and retain some of the world’s most accomplished and promising minds. Dalhousie, home to 50 CRCs, is pleased to welcome Dr. John Frampton, School of Biomedical Engineering and Dr. Erin Bertrand, Department of Biology.
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is now the most common form of liver disease in Canada and part of a larger liver-disease epidemic.