Research

Mark Stradiotto's first interest in metal was more of the "hair metal" variety. On this week's episode of the Sciographies podcast, hear how his work as a chemist is helping bind metals together in new and innovative ways.

For its latest episode, Sciographies teamed up with Dalhousie’s Open Dialogue Live to bring viewers a special alumni edition of the podcast featuring the inspiring story of former NASA astronaut, Dr. Kathryn Sullivan (PhD’78, Earth Sciences), the first American woman to walk in space and the first woman to travel to the deepest part of the ocean.

The success of Healthy Stores 2020 — a real-world community trial in remote Indigenous Australia to study the effect of restricting merchandising of unhealthy products on sales — owes much to Dal’s Catherine Mah as one of the study’s chief investigators.

The classical music scene in Canada is shaped by histories and hierarchies that reinforce racism and cultural appropriation, writes MFA candidate Gloria Blizzard and colleague Gillian Turnbull. Black classical musicians are calling for systemic change.

A ground-breaking court case in the Netherlands could influence the way Canadian courts rule on the government's actions on climate change, writes PhD student and part-time law prof Karinne Lantz.