News Archive
April 2009
- Renovations to LSC to go ahead
- Thursday, April 30, 2009
- Federal minister Peter MacKay announces millions in infrastructure funding for 25 projects at Nova Scotia universities and community colleges, including $13.5 million in federal funds for Dalhousie's Life Sciences Centre.
- Say hello to the new boss
- Monday, May 11, 2009
- Shannon Zimmerman heads up the newly elected DSU council. (See the complete list of student leaders.)
- Human Swine Influenza
- Wednesday, April 29, 2009
- Precautions and implications from Dalhousie's Office of Environmental Health and Safety.
- Soaring higher
- Wednesday, April 29, 2009
- Even though Canada pledged to decrease greenhouse gas emissions when it signed the Kyoto Protocol, levels continue to climb.
- Selling yourself
- Wednesday, April 29, 2009
- Graduate students pack a session on how to prepare a Curriculum Vitae.
- Election excitement
- Wednesday, April 29, 2009
- Dal student Sebastien Heins served as an electoral observor during historic election in El Salvador.
- Taking a green perspective
- Tuesday, April 28, 2009
- A new issue of Green Perspectives has just hit local newsstands.
- Adapting to extreme environments
- Tuesday, April 28, 2009
- Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are causing ocean acidification. But some marine animals are adapting, notes PhD student Kim Davies, whose research is being published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
- A line of defence against medication errors
- Monday, April 27, 2009
- “SafetyNET is like a goalie, the last line of defence to prevent the puck from getting in the net,” says Dr. Neil MacKinnon, associate professor of pharmacy at Dalhousie. “We want that goalie to have the best training, the best equipment available to do their job.”
- Observations by a 'tenured black sheep'
- Monday, April 27, 2009
- In You Must Be a Basketball Player, Dr. Anthony Stewart describes how the university looks at present and makes a case for how this appearance must change.
