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Every drop counts: Dal master's student advances to Falling Walls finals with blood‑testing innovation

Every drop counts: Dal master's student advances to Falling Walls finals with blood‑testing innovation

Linh Tran is taking research that could make blood testing easier for patients while delivering more diagnostic information from smaller samples to an international stage in Berlin this fall.  Read more.

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Matt Reeder
Friday, September 18, 2026
OTN Scientific Director Rob Lennox discusses the growing impact of ocean tracking and why scientists are only beginning to unlock the potential of the data they collect.
Brittany Lambert
Monday, September 28, 2026
Students exchanged ideas, career advice and contacts with employers representing leading organizations from Halifax, Calgary, Toronto and beyond.
Mary-Eleanor Power
Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Designed around real-world challenges facing firefighters, the program supports professional growth and helps enhance emergency response capacity in communities throughout Nova Scotia.

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Caitlyn MacDonald and Michele Charlton
Thursday, June 3, 2021
Jeff Dahn, Chongyin Yang and Michael Metzger will use millions in new funding to help advance their work on developing better batteries for electric vehicles and grid-energy storage.
Alison Auld
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Dr. Chris Richardson, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, completed a pilot study that shows mixing two different COVID-19 vaccines can be highly effective in generating the neutralizing antibodies necessary to fight the communicable disease and boost immunity.
Françoise Baylis
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
In most countries, scientific research that uses human embryos has to halt after the 14th day. New guidelines recommend the public's input in extending the time period, writes Françoise Baylis.
President Deep Saini
Friday, May 28, 2021
In this week’s column, Dr. Saini discusses how the pandemic has blurred the line between our work and home lives, acknowledges the additional responsibilities that parents and caregivers are juggling right now, and considers how we can continue to apply the empathy we have practised over the past 14 months as we look ahead to the future.
Robert Zed
Thursday, May 27, 2021
When Dal alum Robert Zed proposed the idea of starting a scholarship for health administration students at Dalhousie named for Nova Scotia’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. Strang himself was the one who suggested it be directed to students from under-represented populations.