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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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Ryan McNutt
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
From new medical technologies to understanding how children learn language, hundreds of Dal's grad students are contributing to research in Nova Scotia with the support of the province's Nova Scotia Graduate Scholarships program.
Mary-Eleanor Power
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Video: Get to know Sean Myles and his Cultivating Diversity project, which aims to find ways to breed new apple varieties and help sustain our future food supply.
Paige Black
Friday, January 8, 2016
Engineering prof Andrew MacIntosh has generated international headlines by helping test the contents of a 19th-century bottle of Alexander Keith's beer discovered in the depths of Halifax's Northwest Arm.
Nick Wright
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Mary R. Brooks, professor emerita in the Faculty of Management, is the first Dalhousie prof to chair an expert panel of the Council of Canadian Academies, with a mandate to consider the social and economic value of commercial marine shipping in Canada.
Paige Black
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Dal's Impact Ethics group teams with the Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia for a series of film screenings and public lectures this January.