Research
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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.
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, January 29, 2016
As the new director of Dal's Institute for Research in Materials, Daniel Boyd works with researchers across the university to advance the study of advanced materials and clean technology.
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.
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.
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.
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.