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Purpose‑driven leadership: Dal students reshaping campus — and beyond — earn top honour

Purpose‑driven leadership: Dal students reshaping campus — and beyond — earn top honour

This year’s Dal Board of Governors winners show how purposeful action creates lasting change. Get to know more now about how they are doing so.  Read more.

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Ryan Shields and Meredith Murray
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
See how this year’s top co‑op students turned professional opportunities into impressive results, earning Dalhousie’s highest honour for work‑integrated learning.
Jeffrey Lawton
Thursday, March 26, 2026
Dal’s 15th annual Impact Awards brought students, faculty, and staff together to celebrate remarkable contributions in community service, student life, leadership, and society involvement across every corner of campus.
Kenneth Conrad, Graeme Gunn, Kate Rogers, Tanis Trainor
Thursday, March 26, 2026
This year’s Dal Board of Governors winners show how purposeful action creates lasting change. Get to know more now about how they are doing so.

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Chelsea Norris
Friday, January 24, 2025
To earn this coveted award, student-athletes had to maintain at least a 3.50 grade point average over the course of the 2023-24 academic year while competitive in a varsity sport.
Farrah Smith
Friday, January 24, 2025
The International Centre will serve as a home away from home this year for students and others from the Dal community wishing to usher in the Year of the Snake together.
Emily MacKinnon
Friday, January 24, 2025
Dalhousie's ShiftKey Labs invites all gamers to get creative this weekend at its 2025 Global Game Jam, an event that promises to help everyone level up their game-creation skills.
Emily MacKinnon
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Acciceptron is the brainchild of third-year student Sai Narayan Karthikeya Redrowtu, who conceptualized an AI-driven platform for vehicles that blends human and machine intelligence to reduce motor-vehicle accidents.
Stephanie Rogers
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
A knockout-style tournament started by two part-time academics on Dal's Truro Campus put teams of undergrads to the test in a series of engineering-based challenges testing a variety of skills essential to the discipline.