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Marie Visca  –  Student Life, Sports, Dentistry, Health Professions, Facilities Management, Medicine, News
Monday, July 20, 2015
With facilities such as the Wallace McCain Learning Commons and Collaborative Health Education Building set to open this fall, and several other projects getting underway, HÂþ»­'s Campus Master Plan is shaping how the university addresses the space needs of its students, faculty and staff.
Matt Reeder  –  Management, News
Friday, July 17, 2015
LaunchPad Accelerator program bridges gap between the classroom and the broader startup community in Halifax and beyond.
Emma Geldart  –  Agriculture, Student Life
Thursday, July 16, 2015
With the support of an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award, Emily Merks is studying how abnormal and toxic blue-green algal blooms are affecting Colchester County's Mattatall Lake.
Matt Reeder  –  Medicine, Health Professions, Community & Culture
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Nearly 20 African Nova Scotian youth spent part of their summer vacation at HÂþ»­ last week, exploring everything the health sciences have to offer.
Rosalie Fralick  –  Arts and Social Sciences, News
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
A new minor program at Dal, available to students in a variety of undergraduate programs, makes it easier for students with an interest in indigenous topics and issues to integrate those into their studies.
Nikki Comeau  –  Research, Chemistry, Science
Friday, July 10, 2015
Gold and silver nanoparticles have a key role to play in the future of biomedicine, and Dal researchers have discovered new methodologies to study such materials.
Nicole LeBlanc  –  Student Life, Earth Sciences, Science, News
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
A team of undergrad and graduate students from Dal's Department of Earth Sciences won first place in the 77th Annual International FIELD challenge held in Madrid, Spain last month.
Stephanie Rogers  –  Agriculture, Community & Culture
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
The beautiful gardens of HÂþ»­'s Agricultural Campus in Truro are a featured destination in Tourism Nova Scotia's "Garden Road Trip" for the second straight year.
Lora Arenburg  –  Human Resources, Community & Culture
Friday, July 3, 2015
HÂþ»­ 600 staff and faculty came together at the Strawberry Social in Halifax last week to mark the end of another academic year.
Staff  –  News, Senior Administration
Thursday, July 2, 2015
The external Task Force on Misogyny, Sexism and Homophobia in the Faculty of Dentistry, chaired by Constance Backhouse of the University of Ottawa, released its final report on Monday. President Richard Florizone, who commissioned the task force, has accepted its recommendations in full.