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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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Tuesday, October 31, 2023
World-leading scientific journal Nature placed Dal at 159, making it one of just five Canadian post-secondary institutions included in the ranking.
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Promise Scholar Morgan Paul contributes to scholarship on Indigenous Data Sovereignty.
Monday, October 30, 2023
What is the ocean putting into the air? It’s a question atmospheric scientist Rachel Chang seeks to answer in her research to help better understand the ocean’s ability to absorb the world’s carbon.
Friday, October 27, 2023
'The better our soil functions, the better everything works because soil security is related to water security, food security, energy security and ecosystem services," says Dr. Brandon Heung, who has been helping lead a renaissance in soil mapping.
Friday, October 27, 2023
Award-winning filmmaker and writer Dr. Sylvia D. Hamilton cast a critical eye on past portrayals of African descended people in Nova Scotia and called out segregation in schools in her talk on ancestry at the Universities Studying Slavery conference last week.