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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
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
Thursday, June 15, 2023
So, you have an idea you think can improve the world? An innovation that can help people in their lives? Don’t keep it to yourself, especially when it could earn you a trip to Berlin to share it on the global stage at the Falling Walls Lab competition.
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Dalhousie-led research program receives $15-million to study how to leverage the ocean to mitigate climate change.
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Efforts to disrupt online misogyny need to focus on stopping online forums from becoming misogynistic echo-chambers, write Michael Halpin and Finlay Maguire.
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
They are tiny, exist in a galaxy far, far away and were detected by a Dalhousie University astrophysicist using the James Webb Space Telescope in one of the first results to be produced by the powerful tool.
Thursday, June 1, 2023
Dalhousie earned top 100 placements for seven categories and a spot in top 100 overall in this year’s Impact Rankings, moving into first place in Canada— and eight globally — for its work on the Life Below Water goal.