Research

Oysters can filter gallons of water a day, clarifying water and removing pollutants. That’s why a team of Dal researchers, in collaboration with Pictou Landing First Nation, are deploying locally sourced oysters in a body of water near Boat Harbour to evaluate whether they can help improve the local ecosystem.

Canadians have access to a drug that prevents HIV infection, but it's not getting into the hands of those who need it most. Dalhousie’s Dr. Kyle Wilby is tackling the issue by collaborating with policymakers to make Nova Scotian pharmacists among the first in the country with the ability to prescribe the lifesaving medication.

What do you need to make a hit song? It's all in the numbers, according to a Dal mathematician whose songwriting showcases fractals, the Cantor set and all things mathy.

Sixty years after his death, the work of German author Franz Kafka continues to resonate. To mark what would have been his 100th birthday, Brittany Kraus of Dal's English department writes about his influence on the 2008 novel Cockroach by Lebanese Canadian writer and photographer Rawi Hage.

Two Dal researchers are part of the first national study to examine 2SLGBTQ+ poverty in Canada.