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Making friends with guilt: How personal experience inspired Dal prof's new book redefining guilt as a force for good

Making friends with guilt: How personal experience inspired Dal prof's new book redefining guilt as a force for good

Chris Moore, professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, knows a great deal about the painful and profound journey through guilt — 40 years ago, he lived it, following a drunk driving incident with deadly consequences. Now, that personal experience has helped inspire a highly anticipated new book on why we feel guilt and why it's so important to building and healing relationships with one another.  Read more.

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Shelley Adamo and Dylan Miller
Friday, October 29, 2021
Parasitic wasps are body-snatchers — if you’re an insect. But these much-maligned creatures have saved millions of human lives by controlling the spread of the cassava mealybug, write Shelley Adamo and Dylan Miller.
Lucija Prelovec
Friday, October 29, 2021
A Dal-based big data research platform has joined forces with an influential local marine technology accelerator to launch a new event series next month that challenges students to put ocean data to work in solving real-world problems.
Alison Auld
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Françoise Baylis has been named to a prestigious multidisciplinary committee that will plan the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing being held in London next year.
Niecole Killawee
Thursday, October 28, 2021
This week on the final podcast episode of Sciographies this season, meet Katja Fennel, a Killam Professor and chair of the Department of Oceanography at Dal.
Matt Reeder
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Sir Hilary Beckles will offer reflections during a talk next week as part of a pre-conference event — Slavery and Reparations: African Nova Scotia, Canada and Beyond — to help set the stage for the 2023 Universities Studying Slavery (USS) Conference in Halifax.