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Featured News
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.
Archives - Research
Friday, February 12, 2016
We chat with postdoc Sarah Vannier, a researcher with Dal’s Couples and Sexual Health Research Laboratory, about romantic expectations and their impact on relationships, as well as her current research into postpartum sexuality.
Friday, February 12, 2016
Elaine Craig, Dal law professor and an expert in sexual assault law, discusses the challenges faced by sexual assault victims in the court system and some of the legal issues being debated as a result of the ongoing Jian Ghomeshi trial.
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Navdeep Bains was on campus Tuesday to celebrate six Dalhousie researchers in joining the university’s contingent of 50 Canada Research Chairs — the largest in Atlantic Canada.
Monday, February 8, 2016
Eight Dalhousie Ocean Sciences and Oceanography students skipped their holiday break this year to travel to Israel and study the Gulf of Eilat, which offers a marine environment unlike anywhere else in the world.
Monday, February 1, 2016
Surgeons, physicians and scientists at Dalhousie Medical School are striving to better understand, treat and cure HPV-related throat and mouth cancers, rates of which have more than quadrupled in the past decade.