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- Canada is falling behind other countries in meeting the needs of former youth in care
- Ten competitors to take stage during thrilling Three Minute Thesis finals
- Chess for Brain: Dalhousie club brings a different kind of exercise to local seniors
- Working in the fast lane: Mechanical engineering student secures work term with Formula One
- Powering up: First‑in‑Canada battery innovation centre to provide critically needed facility for research and industrial development
FASS in Dal News
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Concerto Night showcases the Fountain School at its finest — working together to bring classics to life
One of the Fountain School's keystone annual events, Concerto Night brings twelve student soloists with different personal and musical experiences together with the Dalhousie Symphony Orchestra for a night of passionate musical performance.
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Women writers come together to share excerpts from new work
Dal faculty members are among a group of accomplished writers coming together this weekend for a free, off-campus reading event in honour of International Women's Day.
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Two Dalhousie faculty members receive Juno Awards nominations
Fountain School Director Dr. Jérôme Blais and collaborator Suzie LeBlanc are nominated for Classical Album of the Year (Solo Artist), while composition faculty member Amy Brandon is nominated for Classical Composition of the Year for a piece recorded with Symphony Nova Scotia and cellist Jeffrey Zeigler.
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Dal social anthropologist explores the joyful reasons people are drawn to Mardi Gras
Carnival From the Ground Up, a new exhibition of 70 photographs and stories on display in New Orleans now, pays tribute to the people who make the city's carnival by hand and who take it to the streets on foot.
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Theatre students take technology to task in latest group‑devised production
In Artificial Oddity, Dal theatre students imagine how different technologies throughout history — from human-controlled fire and the wheel to the internet and beyond — have been received by humanity.
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Transforming Climate Action: Confronting a crisis of climate‑induced displacement
The civil war in Syria was spurred in part by drought and recent flooding in Pakistan left hundreds of thousands homeless. Dal's Dr. Kiran Banerjee says these are just the first signs of a refugee situation that threatens to overwhelm the world if we don't tackle climate change.
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Here’s what ‘woke’ means and how to respond to it
We need to contemplate wokeness so as to avoid polarizing polemics and to increase mutual understanding, writes Dal's Letitia Meynell.
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Sharing the Spotlight
Dal’s 13th president and vice-chancellor, Dr. Kim Brooks.