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• How Dalhousie’s 2025 Top Co‑op Students of the Year made their mark
  See how this year’s top co‑op students turned professional opportunities into impressive results, earning Dalhousie’s highest honour for work‑integrated learning.
  
• Hackers, barns, and breakfast: Why agriculture needs cybersecurity
  Connected barns and automated livestock systems are boosting efficiency but also opening the door to cyber threats, writes Dr. Suresh Neethirajan, a Dalhousie researcher working to secure Canada’s digital farms
  
• The race to the 2026 3MT title enters its final week: Meet the finalists
  Thirteen finalists will compete on March 31 for the 2026 3MT title — including the first‑ever undergraduate honours contender in the new wildcard category.
  
• Impact Awards spotlight Dal’s vibrant culture of student achievement
  Dal’s 15th annual Impact Awards brought students, faculty, and staff together to celebrate remarkable contributions in community service, student life, leadership, and society involvement across every corner of campus.
  

• Designing the moment: DalTheatre students build a world for The Odyssey
  DalTheatre’s final production of the season offers an immersive adaptation of Homer's classic epic, The Odyssey, driven by inventive student design and engaging direction.
  
• Dal course uses ancient languages to decode modern medical terminology
  A new Classics course is helping students — many headed for health professions — understand complex clinical vocabulary by learning the Greek and Latin roots that have shaped the language of medicine for centuries.
  
• Unwritten, unleashed: DalPop ensemble finds the beat together
  From guilty‑pleasure riffs to improvised arrangements, DalPop’s musicians explore how vulnerability, collaboration, and creative risk‑taking shape their sound as they prepare for Unwritten: The Music that Wrote Us this weekend.
  
• Exploring Many Canadas: Inside a history course redefining how students see Canada
  A modern history course taught by Dr. Kassandra Luciuk reframes Canada through upheaval, challenging students to confront myths, recognize patterns across decades, and see today’s political tensions in a sharper, more revealing light.
  
• Cuba is facing an economic and social catastrophe, and not entirely because of Donald Trump
  Cuba is on the brink of one of the worst social and economic catastrophes since the 1959 revolution. If the international community ignores Cuba today, a humanitarian nightmare will unfold soon, writes Dal's Dr. Robert Huish.
  
• Macbeth, reimagined: Dalhousie students set Shakespeare classic inside a vaudeville carnival
  The Fountain School of Performing Arts’s production of Macbeth hits the stage in the Dalhousie Arts Centre this week, offering a radical re-telling of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.