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The new MicroResearch Institute at Dalhousie is a proven, community‑driven research model that empowers local people — doctors, nurses, midwives, community health workers, teachers, police and students — to investigate and solve the health and public safety challenges they understand better than anyone.
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Friday, March 13, 2026
Dal research teams are receiving more than $7.3M in Canada Foundation for Innovation support to expand labs and tools driving breakthroughs in water resilience, ocean science, marine tracking, and digital stewardship of Canada’s past
Thursday, March 26, 2026
In this episode of Sciographies, we talk to Dr. Leanne Stevens, an educator and university teaching fellow in Dalhousie’s Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, and associate dean, academic in the Faculty of Science.
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Dr. Kimberley Hall’s Killam fellowship will accelerate her collaboration with NRC partners as they work to advance quantum hardware and strengthen Canada’s future secure‑tech capabilities.
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Friday, November 20, 2020
With the reimagine NS project having released all five of its reports, one final panel event is set to discuss practical changes institutions, policymakers and individuals need to make in order to enrich the lives of Nova Scotians.
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
A recent Dal-led study, published in Nature Communications, discovered that earthquakes and continental movements triggered massive underwater landslides tens of millions of years ago off the coast of East Africa — findings that could help assess the future risk of tsunamis to the increasingly populated coastline in the region.
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Marsha Campbell-Yeo, a professor in Dal's School of Nursing, has undertaken a study looking into how families have coped with the new rules in Neonatal Intensive Care Units across Canada.
Monday, November 16, 2020
With the U.S. election now over and president-elect Joe Biden trying to create an orderly transition plan amid continued false accusations of election fraud from President Donald Trump, panelists from a Dal-hosted Open Dialogue event last month have returned to share their reactions.
Friday, November 13, 2020
There are effective ways to help reduce babies' pain during blood draws and injections, but they are used in less than 50 percent of routine medical procedures involving newborns, write Dalhousie's Marsha Campbell-Yeo and St. Francis Xavier University's Britney Benoit.