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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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º£½ÇÉçÇøapp’s Dr. Françoise Baylis begins new chapter as president of the Royal Society of Canada
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Global bioethics leader steps into a pivotal national role, aiming to deepen public trust in research, amplify Canadian voices on the world stage, and champion science for societal good.
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Canada’s fragmented approach to mining assessments has left regulators, communities and industry working with incomplete information as they head into a modern mining rush, write Dal's Alana Westwood and Ben Collison in a new commentary piece for Policy Options.
Monday, October 20, 2025
Science student May Engelhardt visited Sable Island this month, where she spent the day carrying out research to support conservation efforts.
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Thursday, April 16, 2020
The award-winning Safe Assured program began as an initiative to help Nova Scotia become the first province in Canada in which community pharmacies reported prescribing errors. Now, the Dal-led initiative is helping keep pharmacies safe on a national scale.
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
If COVID-19 causes a ventilator shortage in hospitals, triage protocols will dictate who gets life-saving treatment. Health-care workers need protection from liability for following those protocols, writes Law professor Jocelyn Downie.
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
A pandemic is a global event with ramifications extending well beyond the boundaries of medical care. That’s why a leading Dal disease researcher is studying public policy and its social implications in the context of COVID-19.
Monday, April 13, 2020
As the new Arthur B. McDonald Chair of Research Excellence, Chemistry prof Mark Stradiotto is developing new materials to bind metals together, creating new catalysts for some of the most difficult and sought-after chemical transformations in the field.
Thursday, April 9, 2020
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Lab2Market program — a partnership between º£½ÇÉçÇøapp and Ryerson on research commercialization — is launching a new national funding program to support researchers in the health-care industry.