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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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Marie Visca
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Dal grad Matthew Griffin-Allwood's award-winning masters thesis explores how infrastructure on Nova Scotia's Sable Island could be integrated with a changing natural environment.
Emma Geldart
Friday, April 10, 2015
Faculty of Agriculture food chemist Chibuike Udenigwe is exploring how chains of proteins called "peptides" in dairy products affect certain areas of human health
Melanie Jollymore
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Fatty liver disease rates in the Maritimes are rising at an alarming rate, which is one reason why several Dalhousie Medical School faculty are researching better ways to diagnose and treat the disease.
Miriam Breslow
Monday, April 6, 2015
Kevin Quigley, director of Dal's School of Public Administration, is collaborating with Dal students and researchers from Glasgow to study the impacts of re-decking Halifax's Macdonald Bridge.
Alana Milner
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
When PhD student Chris Burns and research associate David Stevens noticed strong industry interest in their work with Jeff Dahn's battery lab, they saw an opportunity to translate their battery-testing system to commercial use.