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DalSolutions: Equipping communities with research skills to improve their lives
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 19, 2026
In this episode of Sciographies, we talk to Maxine Westhead — marine biologist, marine spatial planner, and director of Dalhousie’s Marine Affairs Program (MAP).
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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Tuesday, November 27, 2018
At a Dalhousie-sponsored panel event earlier this month, experts from across disciplines came together to engage in big ideas about the future of machines, learning and work — and the critical importance of human agency and insight in building that future.
Monday, November 26, 2018
With a mandate to share their research with the larger world, Dal’s seven new Public Scholars are Interdisciplinary PhD students armed with the skills to inform public discourse and policy.
Friday, November 23, 2018
How Dal's Donald Hill Family Postdoctoral Fellows are inspiring meaningful discussion about the impact of emerging technology on society.
Friday, November 23, 2018
Dal researchers were named winners in all four major categories at the 2018 Discovery Awards, Atlantic Canada's most prestigious science recognition event.
Thursday, November 22, 2018
The new friendship between North Korea and Cuba is puzzling, write Dal researchers Robert Huish and Peter Steele. The two countries should share values as socialist republics, but their brands of socialism are worlds apart when it comes to children.