News Archive

This week's MUSCLE MLK Athletes of the Week are Lorena Heubach, Matthew Coolen and Keevan Veinot.

Urgently needed treatment for opioid use disorder is often denied to incarcerated people, feeding the crisis in prisons and jails, according to Dal researchers.

Though the Tigers came up short in their first-ever men’s basketball championship game against reigning title-holders Carleton, they can hold their heads high after the most successful season in team history.

With a win over UBC Saturday night, the Tigers men's basketball team is set to compete for its first ever national title. Watch the game live at CBC.ca Sunday night beginning at 9 p.m. Atlantic.

Three Dalhousie projects have received a total of $1.9 million through CIHR's Novel Coronavirus Rapid Research Funding Opportunity — an initiative supporting development, testing and implementation of measures to address the global outbreak. Learn how Dal researchers are working to provide better support for emergency room doctors, examine public policy impacts and address stigmas and misinformation.

Dal's Budget Advisory Committee (BAC) hosted two budget forums this week, engaging the Dal community in discussions around recommendations for the 2020-21 operating budget.

In Atlantic Canada, leaders must avoid the mistakes made in the country’s largest cities where people are being pushed out due to high housing prices, write researchers Howard Ramos and Emma Kay.

With their new book, two Dal students are doing more than shining a light on women in Nova Scotia politics. Thanks to a fundraising campaign, they're also aiming to help their fellow students as well.

Rick Plato has become the first Dal men's basketball coach to be named U Sports' coach of the year. Third-year guard Keevan Veinot, AUS MVP, was also named a first-time national all-star.

Researcher and human rights lawyer Mariana Pradini Assis, a postdoctoral fellow in Harm Reduction as Public Policy at the Health Law Institute, gave a glimpse into the evolution of feminism during a Mini Law School lecture in the Schulich School of Law last week.