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For August 11, 2021

Today@Dal

Upcoming at Dal: Knowledge Mobilization Challenge

Knowledge mobilization training and hands-on activity for students.

Pets of Dalhousie: Meet Bean

Get to know Bean, a tuxedo cat who lives with Christine Moore, now retired from Student Health and Wellness Counselling Services.

Job postings

Administrative Assistant (Health and Human Performance); Research Coordinator (Psychiatry); Operations Manager (DMNB)

Job posting: Business Development Strategist

MEOPAR is seeking a Business Development Strategist to help advance its coordinated approach to ocean research into the future.

Teaching Assistant postings: Chinese Studies

TAs required for CHIN 1031, 2031, 2032, 3031 and 3032.

Today on Dal News

Master of disaster: How the Swissair crash prepared this Dal alum to help lead PEI’s pandemic response

Dr. Trevor Jain (MD ’99), a 34-year veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces and a married father of two, came up with an idea early in the pandemic to recognize the contributions of essential workers to battling COVID-19: the COVID Warrior challenge coin, which is inspired by Dr. Jain’s own highly decorated military career.

Afghanistan’s ArtLords use concrete barricades as canvases to promote social change

Afghanistan’s Artlords are using art on blast walls to advocate for social change and to stand in contrast to the country’s war lords, drug lords and corruption, writes Dal graduate researcher Grant Curtis.

Today in Media Highlights

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