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Dalhousie leads global AI workshop on the future of livestock farming
A Dalhousie‑led global workshop explored how AI-powered digital twins could transform livestock farming by predicting health, improving welfare and reducing methane to build a more resilient climate‑smart food system. Read more.
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Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Dalhousie is helping to prepare Canada’s defence community for AI-supported command and control, including fast developing Arctic surveillance scenarios, by simulating how humans and intelligent systems make decisions together under pressure.
Thursday, February 26, 2026
A young scientist shares her journey from two cultures into biochemistry and her drive to create new solutions for plastic waste.
Friday, January 9, 2026
Dr. OmiSoore Dryden brings visionary leadership to the School of Nursing and the Faculty of Health as Canada Research Chair in Black Health Studies: Antiracism in Health Education and Practice.
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Project to address harmful language relating to Indigenous peoples receives prestigious Mellon Award
Monday, April 8, 2024
The Faculty of Management’s Dr. Stacy Allison-Cassin and project co-lead Camille Callison have received $1.8 million from the Mellon Foundation for their Respectful Terminology Platform Project.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Dogs can be taught to recognize the smell of trauma reactions on the breath, which could make PTSD assistance dogs more effective.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Dr. Karen Foster was selected to lead a new national research network that supports the equitable transition to net-zero in Canadian agriculture and its periphery industries.
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Dalhousie new fundraising initiative, the largest ever among Atlantic Canadian universities, aims to build a better future for everyone.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Dr. Harold Robertson has spent his career at Dalhousie trying to improve the treatment of neurological disorders. Now, as someone who lives with Parkinson's Disease, his family has established an award for graduate students focusing their research on the disease.