SPRING CONVOCATION 2023
A wish fulfilled: Long sidetracked by family matters, 92-year-old finally receives Dal degree
Marie Jones left Dal to take care of her sick teenaged son in the mid-1970s. This week, nearly a half century later, she crossed the stage to receive her parchment — one of 11 degrees her family has earned from the university.
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Artificial intelligence — or machine learning — is coming on stream quickly, with new chatbot tools and plug-ins being added to the digital landscape every day. We dig into some of the most pressing questions arising from the technology with three of Dal's resident AI experts.
Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean met with students from a local Halifax junior high to tour The Secret Codes: African Nova Scotian Quilts, an exhibition curated by David Woods featuring quilts and paintings made primarily by African Nova Scotian women.
They are tiny, exist in a galaxy far, far away and were detected by a Dalhousie University astrophysicist using the James Webb Space Telescope in one of the first results to be produced by the powerful tool.
Zoë Smith reflects back on the tight-knit community she discovered in Dal Engineering.
Dentistry grad Olu Brown's connection with Dal stretches back to her teenage years and has been exciting beyond what she imagined.
David Bowman has explored his fascination with the intersection between evidence-based physiotherapy practice and rehabilitation research at Dal.
Francesca Sivilotti explored human behaviour and the law through multiple different perspectives as part of Dal's Law, Justice and Society program — setting her up for success as she heads to law school stateside this fall.
Fountain School of Performing Arts grad Sophie Wilcott found meaning and connection in theatre studies at Dal and leaves filled with aspirations to act, write and direct professionally.
Twenty-one years after beginning his degree — and after a few breaks along the journey to care for his daughters when they were young — Danny Englehutt is receiving his Bachelor of Arts in History degree.
Honours Sociology and Social Anthropology grad Bridgette Norwood turned her personal passion for skateboarding into a critical examination of gender discrepancies in the skatepark.
Nigerian-born Richard Popoola graduates from the College of Pharmacy this spring on a mission to provide culturally competent care to all patients he works with.
Nursing grad Arielle Noseworthy helped connect with and recruit Indigenous and African Nova Scotian students into health fields during her time at Dal.
Social work grad Stephanie Barron's commitment to helping immigrants and refugees began as a young person when her parents took her to events at shelters that supported them when they first arrived in Canada.
