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Strange sounds, unexplained happenings and a woman in a blue dress who appears and disappears at whim — just spooky stories, or is HÂþ»­'s oldest student residence actually haunted? A closer look at the university’s most famous piece of frightening folklore.

In this week's column, Dr. Saini discusses how committed and generous support — from within the university and beyond — helps enable the success of HÂþ»­'s students.

Parasitic wasps are body-snatchers — if you’re an insect. But these much-maligned creatures have saved millions of human lives by controlling the spread of the cassava mealybug, write Shelley Adamo and Dylan Miller.

A Dal-based big data research platform has joined forces with an influential local marine technology accelerator to launch a new event series next month that challenges students to put ocean data to work in solving real-world problems.

A graduate student advisory council has been established to help build HÂþ»­'s new BIPOC Graduate Student Mentoring Academy, a program that connects students of colour with mentors of colour.

This week on the final podcast episode of Sciographies this season, meet Katja Fennel, a Killam Professor and chair of the Department of Oceanography at Dal.

More HÂþ»­ student-athletes achieved U SPORTS Academic All-Canadian status during the 2020-21 season than ever before. "We are so proud of the leadership and engaged citizenship they demonstrate," says Dal President Deep Saini.

Sir Hilary Beckles will offer reflections during a talk next week as part of a pre-conference event — Slavery and Reparations: African Nova Scotia, Canada and Beyond — to help set the stage for the 2023 Universities Studying Slavery (USS) Conference in Halifax.

The Women in Leadership Dinner returns after a one-year hiatus with special guest speaker Candace L. Thomas, deputy minister of justice and deputy attorney general for the Province of Nova Scotia.