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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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Stephanie Rogers
Monday, August 31, 2015
The Faculty of Agriculture's Oamar Zaman is a pioneer in research into precision agriculture, a farming concept that accounts for crop variability, can increase yield and reduce the use of argochemicals.
Janet Stalker
Thursday, August 20, 2015
New research from Dal postdoc Kimberley Davies explores the feeding patterns of one of our region's most notable endangered species.
Marilyn Smulders
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Raymond Klein of the Dpeartment of Psychology and Neuroscience is a collaborator in the NSCAD University Drawing Lab, a project that applies scientific methods to the artistic process.
Kathryn Morse
Friday, August 14, 2015
Heather Fennell-Al Sayed, a faculty member with Dal's Clinical Vision Science program, spent her July in Malaysia training young practitioners to lead orthoptic care in the country.
Alana Milner
Thursday, August 13, 2015
Dal's Transatlantic Ocean System Science and Technology (TOSST) summer school took grad students to West Africa to learn about how communities interact with the marine environment.