News Archive

April 2008

Fratpack your troubles
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Dal student Andrew MacKean creates his own summer job by starting a company, Fratpackers
'If you can dream it, you can achieve it'
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Stories of overcoming obstacles provide the framework for "Defying the Odds," the symposium on student success
A Canlit champion
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
English prof. Dean Irvine marshals forces to bring attention to Canlit pioneers
Fostering friendship
Monday, April 28, 2008
Best Buddies pairs a person with an intellectual disability with a Dalhousie student volunteer.
The blind can see
Monday, April 28, 2008
As part of a team of neuroscientists, Gautam Awatramani restored visual functions in mice with retinal degenerative diseases. Their research has just been published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
Special K
Friday, April 25, 2008
Dal Circle K kicks off with a chartering banquet.
Capturing the carbon cocktail
Friday, April 25, 2008
The federal government provides $5 million to support carbon capture and storage (CCS) research in Nova Scotia.
Cameron chair in cancer control research
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Dalhousie University appoints Dr. Eva Grunfeld as the first research chair in cancer control
The courage of conviction
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
“I want to make sure that the people that come after me and want to go to school won’t have to struggle as I have," says Melissa Myers.
"Oh yeah, I've been there"
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Visually impaired social-work graduate helps other people dealing with vision loss