Complete an Online Survey: Engaging Youth around Oceans, Arts and Technology

We are a group of students enrolled in various programs at Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Management who are conducting a survey as part of a project assigned through our Management Without Borders (MGMT 5000) course. Through this project, we have been partnered with the Oceans and Coasts Education Awareness Network Society (OCEANS-NS) and charged with producing a feasibility report that will inform the future programming of the society.

Take a FREE MCAT Test

Interested in writing the new MCAT 2015 or are you just curious to see what its all about? Sign up for the free mock MCAT we have on campus on November 1st.

FunRun/Walk: Fundraiser for the IWK hospital

This event will be held at the lower parking lot of Point Pleasant Park at 5:15pm on Thursday, October 30th. There will be 2km and 5km loop options for participants (run or walk) and wearing Halloween costumes is encouraged. All ages are welcome and you don't have to be a Dalhousie student to participate. The minimum donation to participate will be $10 collected at the registration booth at the event. Registration can be done by e-mail at hfx.monster.mash@gmail.com.

OCTOBER 29 - Information Session: Masters of Marine Management Program

You are invited to meet current students to learn about their experience in the Master of Marine Management (MMM) program, chat with faculty about research in their field, and engage with alumni working on a variety of issues. RSVP at dal.ca/MMMinfosession

OCTOBER 28 - @CAT Seminar (Math & Stats)

Representing Higher Algebras: Categorification and Groupoidification Part I By: Jeffery Morton, Mount Allison University

OCTOBER 31 - Economics Seminar

The effect of parental composition on investments in children when markets are incomplete. By Brant Abbott, Yale University.

OCTOBER 31 - Psychology & Neuroscience Seminar

Recent Progress in Parkinson’s Disease Research: The Search for Better Animal Models and Earlier Detection. By Harold Robertson, Dalhousie University.

OCTOBER 30 - Biology Seminar

What Drives Larval Transport: From the Beaker to the Ocean. By Dr. Anna Metaxas, Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University.

OCTOBER 29 - Genetics and Genomics Lunch Seminar Series

Dr. Robert Burgess will discuss the use of mouse models of human inherited peripheral neuropathies to examine their genetic basis, their pathophysiological mechanisms, and possible therapeutic approaches.

OCTOBER 29-31 - 20th Annual Online Learning Consortium International Conference

The Dalhousie e-Learning Group (DeLG) invites you to attend one or more sessions via live feed. We will broadcast selected sessions from Room 2616 in the Killam Library. Sessions are free and open to all Dal faculty and staff. Registration is required. Refreshments will be provided for the keynote sessions.

NOVEMBER 3 - Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

Cross-linguistic evidence of semantic involvement in single word reading. By Max Wilson, Université Laval.

NOVEMBER 3 - NS Institute of Science Lecture

Changing Sea Levels in Atlantic Canada – Past, Present, and Future. Dr. John Shaw will describe changing sea levels in Atlantic Canada since the end of the last ice age, how rising sea levels may be recorded in the Legend of Glooscap, and current sea-level changes and their impacts on coasts. He will discuss the predictions by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for future sea levels.

NOVEMBER 4 - Centre for Comparative Genomics Lecture

The Next big One: Ebola, MERS, and the New Age of Emerging Viruses. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa, MERS virus coming out of Saudi Arabia, the bird flu and West Nile and Hanta and SARS and a steady drumbeat of scary new viruses, emerging suddenly to cause misery, death, and in some cases epidemics of global concern.But emerging—from where? And what are the chances that the next one, or the one after, will cause a global pandemic?

NOVEMBER 6 - Walter J. Chute Lecture Series

Air Pollution, Acid Rain and Climate Change: Perspectives from the Past and Future Challenges. By Professor Barbara Finlayson-Pitts Department of Chemistry University of California-Irvine

NOVEMBER 6 & 7 - Fishermens Forum 2014: Conversations on Climate Change

The “Fishermen’s Forum 2014: Conversations on Climate Change” will bring together fishermen, academic researchers, policy-makers, and other interested parties to discuss research and observations related to climate change and its effects on our oceans.

Rick Mercer Report comes to Dal

Last August, Rick Mercer from CBC's Rick Mercer Report, teamed up with the Ocean Tracking Network and Dalhousie to tag sharks off the coast of Halifax.