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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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Monday, January 12, 2026
Dal's OpenThink program helps PhDs showcase their research impact and dive into the world of public scholarship. For 2025 participant Lindsay Van Dam, it's become an essential part of her overall PhD experience.
Friday, January 9, 2026
Dr. OmiSoore Dryden brings visionary leadership to the School of Nursing and the Faculty of Health as Canada Research Chair in Black Health Studies: Antiracism in Health Education and Practice.
Thursday, December 11, 2025
New research suggests the two top predators have forged a co-operative rather than competitive relationship to find and feast on salmon off B.C. coast.
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Monday, July 27, 2020
How Assistant Professor of Biology Jonathan Ferrier is using an Indigenous framework to guide his summer research projects.
Thursday, July 23, 2020
While Canada has done well compared to countries like the U.S. and the U.K. in containing COVID-19, rates of infection and deaths are higher than in many similar western democracies. Why? Social Work prof Raluca Bejanad her colleague Kristina Nikolova look at the comparisons.
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
When researchers deployed 15,000 underwater video cameras on coral reefs around the world, they expected to see sharks in most if not all of the footage they would gather over a three-year span. What the research team, led by Dal biologist Aaron MacNeil, found was grim corroboration of how overfishing has dramatically depleted reef shark populations globally.
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
The effects of economic stress on children are big, writes Dal economist Shelley Phipps and PhD grad Nancy Kong. Parents' anxiety about their financial situation is equivalent to the effect of a divorce, and is likely at play amid COVID-19.
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
The Ocean Tracking Network has been awarded a grant of $13.4 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) Major Science Initiatives Fund, providing important resources to support the technology needed to monitor how the global ocean is changing — including tracking the movements and survival of more than 245 important species.