Research

From science fiction to Irish literature, there was something for everyone at the annual Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences book launch, celebrating the Faculty's publications from the past year.

Haibo Niu of the Faculty of Agriculture's Department of Engineering is developing more accurate models to predict the spread of oil in the ocean, hoping to reduce the environmental and human impacts of oil spills.

Together with researchers, pharmacists and government, the SafetyNET-Rx initiative is helping identify and track pharmacy error in Canada and improve patient safety.

Scott White, a recent hire in Dal's Faculty of Agriculture, has no qualms about getting all tangled up in the weeds. In fact, it's the focus of his research program.

These days, the majority of chemical calculations used by researchers and companies around the world rely on theories and formulas developed in large part by Axel Becke. Now, the impressive career of Dalhousie's Killam Chair in Computational Science is being celebrated with NSERC's highest honour — the second year in a row the award has been presented to a Dal researcher.