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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, April 15, 2015
Chemistry Professor Mary Anne White has uncovered new discoveries about the disorderly nature of the periodic table's fifth element.
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.
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
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.
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.