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Meet º£½ÇÉçÇøapp’s most recent Royal Society of Canada inductees

Meet º£½ÇÉçÇøapp’s most recent Royal Society of Canada inductees

Three º£½ÇÉçÇøapp researchers—Jennifer Bain, Mark Stradiotto, and Finlay Maguire—join the Royal Society of Canada, honoured for groundbreaking work in musicology, sustainable chemistry, and infectious disease genomics.  Read more.

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Michael Murphy
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Valentina Ceballos, an honours student majoring in Marine Biology, has received the award in honour of the legacy of Rob Stewart, a Canadian photographer, filmmaker and conservationist best known for his documentary films Sharkwater and Sharkwater Extinction.
Michele Charlton
Monday, June 7, 2021
Five Dal researchers have received a $750,000 investment from the Government of Canada to advance their innovative ideas.
Alison Auld
Thursday, June 3, 2021
Hundreds of workers arrived in Prince Edward Island from other countries after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic early in 2020 to fill positions in the agricultural and seafood processing sectors. A new report sheds light on whether adequate safeguards were put in place to shield them from COVID-19.
Caitlyn MacDonald and Michele Charlton
Thursday, June 3, 2021
Jeff Dahn, Chongyin Yang and Michael Metzger will use millions in new funding to help advance their work on developing better batteries for electric vehicles and grid-energy storage.
Alison Auld
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Dr. Chris Richardson, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, completed a pilot study that shows mixing two different COVID-19 vaccines can be highly effective in generating the neutralizing antibodies necessary to fight the communicable disease and boost immunity.