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The FASS monthly e-newsletter - April 2021 edition

FACULTY ANNOUNCEMENTS

Academic Assistance for FASS Students

Dr. David Matthias, Assistant Dean (Student Matters) is available to respond to any questions and concerns you may have about your academic progress, academic regulations, and degree completion. Feel free to email him at david.matthias@dal.ca

DEPARTMENTAL ACADEMIC ADVISING
Please consult your department's academic advisor if you require specific advice about your major, honours options and program requirements.
 

Dalhousie University Important Dates

April 2
Good Friday, University closed

April 7 and 8
Classes end, regular session
Wednesday April 7 and Thursday April 8 - Friday classes will be held

April 8
Last day to drop Winter term courses with a "W"

April 10-23
Exam period

April 20
Residences close at noon (Truro Campus)

April 24
Residences close at noon (Halifax Campus)

April TBD
Letter of Permission transcripts due for Spring Convocation

April 30
Grades due for courses with formal exams

See more at www.dal.ca/academics/important_dates.html

The Clan Ramsay of Nova Scotia Prize

The purpose of the Clan Ramsey Award is to provide an annual prize to the student in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Dalhousie University who has written the best paper dealing with (any aspect of) the influence of Scottish culture within Canada (first preference will be given to papers dealing with the influence of Scottish culture within Nova Scotia). This award was established by the Clan Ramsay in Nova Scotia in recognition of the contribution of George Ramsay, 19th earl of Dalhousie, founder of Dalhousie University.

Prize amount for this year (2021): $700.00
Deadline: Monday, April 26, 2021

Students who wish to submit an essay as an entry to this competition are to send their essays, along with a brief note of nomination from their professor indicating which course this essay was written for and whether or not the professor approves the submission of this essay to the contest OR the professor can submit the essay and note of nomination/approval on the student's behalf.

To submit an essay, or if you have further questions, please contact genevieve.macintyre@dal.ca

Fountain School of Performing Arts

MARY STUART  (Theatre production)

by Friedrich Schiller, in a new version by Peter Oswald
Directed by Alistair Newton
March 30 to April 3 at 7:30 pm; April 3 at 2:00 pm (no show Good Friday)

Performances will be streamed on Vimeo. To request a viewing link please visit http://bit.ly/2NwO4sw
All evening performances will be live. The Saturday matinee is a recording.

Learn more about this performance HERE. 

Russian Studies Department

We are proud to announce the recipients of the 2020-2021 Glazov Memorial Award. Due to COVID-19 we were forced to skip the awards ceremony last academic year. It was a tough year for everyone, but our students have demonstrated both academic excellence and personal resilience while helping to fight the impact of pandemics on our communities. Congratulations to all the winners - Tia Bonvie, Sophie Girouard, Hasana Tombs, Maya Schluter-MacLean, and Alec Rembowski!

Learn more about each of the winners HERE. 

Dr. Glazov believed that a liberal education is intimately bound up with a sense of citizenship and civic responsibility. To honour his memory, the Professor Yuri Glazov Memorial Award will be given to a student who has demonstrated excellent academic performance and who is engaged in extracurricular activities. Preference will be given to students taking courses from the Department of Russian Studies at Dalhousie University.  
 

Chinese Studies Program

Dalhousie’s Chinese Studies program has a new $1,000 scholarship prize — the fifth Dal scholarship supported by Eric Yeung and the Chinese Education Promotion Association of Nova Scotia. Learn about this new scholarship, the donor and the first student to recieve this new scholarship HERE. 

Jean Monnet European Union of Excellence

JMEUCE STUDENT ESSAY PRIZE (DEADLINE: April 30th, 2021)

Are you writing -- or did you submit last term -- a paper on some aspect of the EU, either an individual member country or the European Union as a whole?  The Centre is offering its annual award of $200 for the best student essay on any aspect of the EU, so send along your submission by 30th April. 

This award is open to Dalhousie students currently enrolled in a graduate or undergraduate programme.  For details, go to www.dal.ca/jmeuce or contact jmeuce@dal.ca.

FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES

FASS PhD students among 2021 OpenThinkers

Michael Cameron (English), Grant Curtis (Political Science) and Rachel McLay (Sociology) are among the 13 new members of the OpenThink initiative, which empowers leading PhD student researchers from across Dalhousie to share their ideas and opinions. Learn more and check out their blog posts at blogs.dal.ca/openthink.
 
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