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                            Alumni, News
                    
            
                    Tuesday, April 30, 2024
            海角社区app visited the National Arts Centre in Canada's capital, made a splash at Ripley鈥檚 Aquarium of Canada in Toronto, and saddled up in Truro earlier this month to spread the word about its $750-million campaign for transformational change.
        
                    
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                            History, Arts and Social Sciences
                    
            
                    Tuesday, April 30, 2024
            Judith Meyrick has earned a spot as one of the 25 finalists in the 2024 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council鈥檚 Storytellers Challenge for A Dubious Honour, her write-up about locating archival files about the expropriation of land from Mi'kmaw people at a settlement in Cape Breton.
        
                    
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                            Science, Resource and Environmental Studies
                    
            
                    Monday, April 29, 2024
            With the recent scrapping of Nova Scotia鈥檚 Coastal Protection Act, the future of Canada鈥檚 iconic Bay of Fundy now rests in the hands of private interests, with potentially significant consequences.
        
                    
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                            Convocation, News, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Thursday, April 25, 2024
            Meet the six exceptional individuals who will be receiving honorary degrees at Spring Convocation 2024, which takes place May 21 to 31.
        
                    
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                            Libraries, Information Technology Services, Food Services, Senior Administration
                    
            
                    Thursday, April 25, 2024
            A new program provides tools, resources, and connections that will help link 海角社区app with diverse-owned businesses who can provide products and services through the university鈥檚 purchasing processes.
        
                    
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                            Research, Architecture and Planning, Planning, News, Engineering, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Wednesday, April 24, 2024
            A new $4.3 million NSERC Alliance-Mitacs Accelerate Grant will support a partnership between the Atlantic First Nations Water Authority and 海角社区app to help the organization in its mission to deliver world-class drinking water and treatment guided by Indigenous knowledge and values.
        
                    
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                            Research, Management, Resource and Environmental Studies
                    
            
                    Wednesday, April 24, 2024
            The research team behind the international analysis, including Dal's Dr. Tony Walker, found a clear link between the world's top producers of branded plastic and plastic waste and determined that companies producing single-use consumer goods disproportionately contributed to the problem.
        
                    
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                            Research, Science, Resource and Environmental Studies
                    
            
                    Tuesday, April 23, 2024
            Fining companies that flout environmental regulations is an effective strategy, if the penalties are severe enough.
        
                    
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                            Biology, Science, Graduate Studies
                    
            
                    Monday, April 22, 2024
            Biology PhD student Sam Walmsley travelled to Zurich, Switzerland last year after receiving the inaugural Killam International Research Award, an opportunity that enabled him to apply new methods to expand the scope of his study of northern bottlenose whales in a wider evolutionary context.
        
                    
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                            Research, Engineering, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Friday, April 19, 2024
            A team of Dal chemical engineering students worked with 2 Crows Brewing to explore ways to store some of the carbon dioxide produced during the brewing process.
         
     
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
            