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Rustum Southwell renewed as Dalhousie chancellor for second term

Rustum Southwell renewed as Dalhousie chancellor for second term

Rustum Southwell has been reappointed to the university's most senior ceremonial role, looking to continue a Dalhousie and community legacy of growing opportunity for others.  Read more.

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Tanis Trainor
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
The movement advocates to empower customers, businesses, and independent repair providers with access to parts, tools, and software to repair products, devices, and technologies. Read more about progress in Canada.
Matt Reeder
Thursday, June 18, 2026
Dalhousie University placed in the top 20% globally in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, with strong performance in select research, sustainability, and global engagement indicators.
Matt Reeder
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
Dalhousie hosted Indian partners for a high-level visit last week advancing joint research, innovation programs and industry collaboration, with new agreements, funding pathways and a shared global innovation campus taking shape.

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By Ryan McNutt
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Dalhousie’s Faculty of Medicine announced recently that its undergraduate medical education program had been placed on probation by its American accrediting body, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. Having just completed the appeals process, new dean Tom Marrie sat down with Dalnews to explain how the medical school is responding to the challenge.
By Allison Gerrard
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
The Galien Research Award is often referred to as the Nobel Prize of pharmaceutical research.
By Charles Crosby
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
So far, absentee levels at Dal due to illness are not up significantly over the same time last year.
By Amanda Pelham
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
“In fact, vaccinations are one of the safest medical interventions that we have,” says Noni MacDonald, a co-investigator of the study published in The Lancet.
By Marilyn Smulders
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Numbing cream, distraction are some of the ways to ease fear of needles.