Student Life

Nila Joshi grew up playing outside and using her imagination. Now, as a PhD student in Health, she is helping kids do the same.

When Mohammed Alqassab enrolled at Dal to become engineer after a decade working back home in Saudi Arabia, preparatory courses in math and English gave him the confidence he needed to get started. This spring, he graduated as a Sexton Scholar with his wife and three children there to cheer him on.

Dal PhD student Philip Joy is bringing his research to life through the talents of 40 international artists in the conversation-starting comic collection "Rainbow Reflections: Body Image Comics for Queer Men.”

When a workplace injury required dental hygenist Marilyn Harris to rethink her career, she decided to return to Dalhousie to pursue a new degree and open new doors. It was a hard choice — but one she wouldn't regret.

Two Dalhousie medical students delved into the difficulties that people with intellectual disabilities face when seeking health care, in a two-way information exchange facilitated through the medical school’s Service Learning Program.