Today@Dal
News and events for Dal staff and faculty

For January 12, 2021

Top 8 Academic All-Canadians

Congratulations are in order for Tigers student-athletes Matt Coolen and Isabel Sarty, who yesterday were named as two of Canada's Top 8 Academic All-Canadians for 2019-20. It marks only the second time that Dalhousie student-athletes have received both Top 8 awards from the AUS conference. Matt, a track and field star, graduated from Engineering in the spring, while Isabel, a multi-AUS record holding swimmer, is studying neuroscience.

Read more on Dal News: Two Tigers selected as Top 8 Academic All-Canadians

Today@Dal

Feature change: Meeting recordings stored in OneDrive or Teams

Teams meeting recordings will now be stored in either OneDrive or the SharePoint site connected to your Microsoft Team

Two wellness challenges to kickstart your 2021

Keep it simple to make progress

Today on Dal News

The fairness doctrine: Kevin Hewitt reflects on six years as Senate chair as he announces his departure

Dr. Hewitt has announced he plans to step down as chair this June, bringing to an end a six-year tenure focused largely on expanding conversations and bringing more fairness and inclusion to the university’s governing academic body.

Trump‑inspired mob at U.S. Capitol follows a familiar path of election violence

The attack on the U.S. Capitol follows some familiar patterns of violence inspired by politicians around the world who won't accept election losses, write Dalhousie's Robert Huish and University of Ottawa's Gabrielle Bardall on The Conversation.

Today in Media Highlights

Dalhousie University

Today@Dal is a service of Dalhousie Communications and Marketing. It is linked with both Dal News and the university Events Calendar.

To subscribe to the daily newsletter, send an email to listserv@lists.dal.ca containing the message: sub dal-news firstname lastname. Or subscribe from our website.

To unsubscribe, email listserv@lists.dal.ca containing the message: unsub dal-news. If you are forwarding to another email service, please include your NetID in the body copy, or else the automated subscription system will not work properly.

Follow Dalhousie on social media