Research
Equipping communities with research skills to improve their lives
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
Friday, June 27, 2014
Dal researchers take part in Ocean Sampling Day, a worldwide scientific effort to better understand the important role microbes play in ocean ecosystems – and how they may be affected by climate change.
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Hillary MacKinlay's love of nautical history has taken her from the pages of whaling journals to the halls of the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Dalhousie neuroscientists receive $1.7 million – and top rankings – from CIHR to study how spinal cord circuits coordinate movement.
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Research team from Dal and Capital Health licenses the world’s first high-resolution probe for imaging the inner and middle ear.
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Marine Affairs prof Claudio Aporta has helped develop the Inuit Pan Arctic Atlas, illustratrating historic and geographic connections among Inuit peoples and demonstrating their importance in the Arctic's past, present, and future.