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.
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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
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Leslie and Allan Shaw donate $1 million to the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation to improve melanoma diagnosis and treatment.
Monday, June 1, 2015
Canadian Foundation for Innovation announces funding to support the Research Program for Rare Pediatric Diseases (RaPiD), which counts Dalhousie Medical School researcher Dr. Chris McMaster as a co-principal investigator.
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Grad students with Dal's Transatlantic Ocean System Science and Technology (TOSST) research school are en route to Cape Verde, where they will collaborate with students and researchers from across West Africa.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
An interdisciplinary project involving the Faculties of Health Professions and Dentistry, focused on oral health in the aboriginal community of NunatuKavut, culminated in a forum for community members, researchers and policy makers.
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Dal scientists Derek Tittensor and Heike Lotze contributed to an international study that used fossils of extinct marine species to determine species and areas at-risk for extinction in today's oceans.