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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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Stephen Abbott
Friday, March 19, 2021
Kayleigh Landers and Annika Benson competed against seven other teams in this year’s Canadian Engineering Competition, emerging on top with their design of an accessible campus and the repurposing of salmon cages.
Brittany Warren
Thursday, March 18, 2021
For the Winter 2021 term, Dalhousie Management Career Services supported the largest cohort of Commerce Co-op students in the history of the program — with nearly all of them successfully landing positions.
Jocelyn Adams
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Today marks two years since the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash that tragically took the lives of Angela Rehhorn and Danielle Moore, both 24-year old graduates of Dal’s marine biology program. Now, as a way to honour their daughter’s legacy, Rehhorn's parents are offering support for student mental health services at Dal.
Alison DeLory
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Learn how Dal and its community are uniting to help and how you can help, too.
Allysha Porter
Monday, March 8, 2021
This past Monday marked International Women’s Day 2021. We spoke to presidents of the Women in Engineering and Women in Technology student societies about their groups’ origins, why they are still needed today and what they’ll be celebrating this year.