News Archive

Dalhousie's next Open Dialogue Live event on May 26 will offer a unique look at how humanity's quest to explore and voyage beyond the Earth's atmosphere is accelerating and changing in exciting new ways — and the important role Canada has to play.

More than a half-century after graduating, Atlantic music scene pioneer Brookes Diamond is back at Dal to produce Resounding — a show celebrating the revitalized Dalhousie Arts Centre.

New projects funded by SSHRC’s Race, Gender and Diversity Initiative are forging university-community partnerships to examine systemic racism in health care and improve the influence of Indigenous leadership in natural resource management.

A conversation with Martha Paynter — PhD candidate, registered Nurse and author of a new book on reproductive health and justice — about what the U.S. Supreme Court's presumed ruling on abortion could mean for reproductive rights on both sides of the border.

Dalhousie University President Deep Saini, Dean of Agriculture David Gray, and Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture Executive Director Carolyn van den Heuvel discuss feeding the world, environmental stewardship, and food security.

When Clayton Burrill (JD‘11) heard that he and his fellow Hillsburn bandmates had scored five 2022 East Coast Music Awards (ECMA) nominations, it was a wonderful but surreal moment. After all, the COVID-19 pandemic essentially shut down live performances, making life as working musician challenging.

Research highlights the importance of daily meditation, exercise and sleep for improving executive functioning, a component of attention that helps people focus, writes Colin McCormick.

Shannex joined with Pulse, Dalhousie’s Health Innovation Sandbox, to host a hackathon event in March that gave students from several local post-secondary institutions the opportunity to work on real-world long-term care challenges such as resident falls, social isolation, disease progression and care transitions, and responsive behaviours.

Since 2020, 67 business leaders have mentored Lab2Market and Ready2Launch student teams from Dal Innovates. With the support of these trusted advisors these teams have raised a total of 4.2 million in private and public funding and created 83 jobs in the region.