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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.

Featured News

Andrew Riley
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
Jocelyn Adams Moss
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.
Kenneth Conrad
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

Kim Humes and Sonya Jampolsky
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Promise Scholar Morgan Paul contributes to scholarship on Indigenous Data Sovereignty.
Andrew Riley
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.
Stephanie Rogers
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.
Ariel Mackenzie
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.
Niecole Killawee
Friday, October 27, 2023
This week on Sciographies, meet Dr. Kevin Hewitt, a professor in the Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science and the Faculty of Science's first associate dean of equity and inclusion. Learn more about Dr. Hewitt's coming to Canada, his research related to health outcomes for African Canadians, and his mother’s influence on his success.