September 2017

On October 2 and 3, at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Dalhousie will bestow honorary degrees to three extraordinary individuals who have demonstrated service to their community and made significant progress in their fields.

Clearwater Fine Foods President John Risley and IMP Group Founder and Executive Chairman Ken Rowe have been named today as two of the many top Canadian business leaders to serve as mentors in CDL-Atlantic, the Dalhousie University–hosted offshoot of the Creative Destruction Lab, the prestigious Toronto-based national startup accelerator.

Fifty-seven Dalhousie University researchers from six different faculties have been announced as recipients of over $8 million in funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council’s (NSERC) Discovery Grants.