• Answering society's most complex questions: Dal researchers help us navigate the world with support from SSHRC
  Humanities and social science researchers at Dal are receiving $1.5 million in new grants from Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Learn more about the knowledge they promise to deliver.
  
• As tuition waiver programs multiply, study seeks input on effectiveness
  A team of researchers in Atlantic Canada is examining the impact of tuition waiver programs for youth who have spent time in foster care.
  
• Grad profile: An instrumental change brings joy of performance back to music student
  When Jonathan Haggett began at Dalhousie in the fall of 2008, he focused his studies on the trumpet. Now, as he completes his degree as a mature student, he does so as master of a different instrument — the euphonium — that's helped him blossom and find his voice as a musician.
  
• Grad profile: Finding the right balance
  Claire Mercer, a Combined Honours in History and Political Science grad, leaves Dal with valuable work and volunteer experience both on and off campus and several special achievements to be proud of.
  
• Dal’s latest Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar deciphers our changing democracy
  Tobias Gerhard Schminke was one of 13 scholars selected out of 500 applicants to receive the prestigious Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholarship and becomes the third Political Science doctoral student at Dal to receive it in 10 years.
  
• Pig‑human transplants may be a misguided attempt to address the organ shortage
  The heart used in the first pig-human transplant was infected with a pig virus. This reveals that using other species as organ donors may not provide a solution for organ shortages, writes Dal researchers Françoise Baylis and Andrew Fenton.
  

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• Answering society's most complex questions: Dal researchers help us navigate the world with support from SSHRC
  Humanities and social science researchers at Dal are receiving $1.5 million in new grants from Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Learn more about the knowledge they promise to deliver.
  
• As tuition waiver programs multiply, study seeks input on effectiveness
  A team of researchers in Atlantic Canada is examining the impact of tuition waiver programs for youth who have spent time in foster care.
  
• Grad profile: An instrumental change brings joy of performance back to music student
  When Jonathan Haggett began at Dalhousie in the fall of 2008, he focused his studies on the trumpet. Now, as he completes his degree as a mature student, he does so as master of a different instrument — the euphonium — that's helped him blossom and find his voice as a musician.
  
• Grad profile: Finding the right balance
  Claire Mercer, a Combined Honours in History and Political Science grad, leaves Dal with valuable work and volunteer experience both on and off campus and several special achievements to be proud of.