STUDENT SUPPORT
Stepping up for students in need
How Dalhousie and its friends, alumni and donors have come together to provide urgent financial support for students during this pandemic — and how you can help.
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With most dental clinics shut down during the pandemic, Dalhousie's Faculty of Dentistry is one of the few clinics in the province still providing emergency dental care. Not only have they met high safety standards in doing so, but in teaching others their protocols, they've helped expand emergency dental care to other communities in the province.
A LASTING LEGACY
The power of the TYP family: Marking 50 years of a trailblazing program
The launch of Dalhousie's Transition Year Program — an initiative that helps African Nova Scotian and Mi’kmaq individuals gain access to university — 50 years ago this week was a modest, yet game-changing, step in the university’s journey to becoming a leader in equity, diversity and inclusion.
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Two of Dal’s most prominent buildings — the Henry Hicks Building in Halifax and Cumming Hall in Truro — were lit up blue at night to remember those who lost their lives in the tragic events in Nova Scotia this month and to show support for our broader community.
New smartphone apps being developed could help track and trace where people with the virus have been and alert others who might be at risk of coming into contact with it. But Stan Matwin, director of Dal's Institute for Big Data Analytics, says decision-makers must grapple with how to make these programs both effective and respectful of people’s privacy.
From cholera outbreaks to public health actions, war metaphors have long been used to describe diseases, writes English Professor Julia Wright. They show what we fear and help to explain our world to ourselves.
Researchers at Dalhousie are using algorithms and machine learning to listen for the distinct calls of one of the world’s most endangered animals in a bid to identify where they are and shield them from one of their greatest threats.
Susan Kirkland, head of Dal’s Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, is co-lead of a new national study collecting data on aging adults’ experience during COVID-19.
Pediatric cancer patients should be revaccinated after receiving chemotherapy or face a higher risk of pneumococcal disease and chickenpox, according to new research from Dal’s Canadian Center for Vaccinology.
Drug users are already among the most marginalized and stigmatized populations in times without a pandemic, writes research coordinator Matthew Bonn. Unless we decriminalize drug use, once again they will bear the brunt of another deadly disease.
The bestselling novel turned film exposes paradoxes of fixing a broken system with its own tools, writes adjunct professor Tom Ue. As we collectively meditate on the world's problems, why not imagine better worlds?
