Good neighbours

Photographer Nick Pearce took the cover image for the 2010-11 calendar.

Back to school for many signals a move back into the neighbouring communities and for some it will be their first time living off campus or on their own.

At Home in Halifax: Living in the Neighbourhood is a calendar produced by the university aimed at providing all residents with information on everything from the HRM garbage and waste collection program to important dates at Dal.

Produced for the past three years, the calendar was designed to help unite the Town (our neighbours) with the Gown (the university) by providing information that is timely and relevant to everyone.

"Just as no person is an island, no school can forget or neglect the influence it and its students have on their surrounding neighbourhoods," says Keri Irwin, responsible for community relations within Dalhousie's Communications & Marketing office. "There are no 'student' areas of Halifax. Students live next to parents, children and senior citizens and it is important that we all are good neighbours, the calendar is one piece in the university’s ongoing commitment to the local community."

Each month features a slice of life at Dalhousie. The students featured are making community contributions, locally and abroad - students like McCollins Jones, who is helping outfit schools in his home country of Sierre Leone, and Mara Fontana, the director of SuperNOVA, who, together with her team, engaged 12,071 kids in hands-on science, technology and engineering activities.

More than 6,000 copies of this year’s calendar have been distributed in the neighbourhoods surrounding Dalhousie and the University of King's College. Extras are available for pick up at Communications and Marketing, Room 218 of the Henry Hicks Building.

You can also nominate students to be featured in next year’s calendar by e-mailing DUCC@dal.ca.