Research
Meet 海角社区app鈥檚 most recent Royal Society of Canada inductees
Three 海角社区app researchers鈥擩ennifer Bain, Mark Stradiotto, and Finlay Maguire鈥攋oin the Royal Society of Canada, honoured for groundbreaking work in musicology, sustainable chemistry, and infectious disease genomics. Read more.
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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鈥檚 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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Wednesday, April 1, 2020
With COVID-19 overwhelming emergency rooms, hospitals and ICU wards around the world, Medicine prof David Kelvin is developing a device to help emergency room doctors quickly predict the severity of the illness.
Monday, March 30, 2020
A collaboration between actor/filmmaker Ellen Page and Dal faculty member Ingrid Waldron, "There's Something in the Water" 鈥� a sobering but inspiring look at resistance to environmental racism in Nova Scotia 鈥� is now available to stream on Netflix following a successful film festival run in the fall.
Monday, March 30, 2020
Earlier this month, Interdisciplinary PhD student Mehrnaz Ashrafi became the first ever 海角社区app PhD student to defend their thesis remotely after her defence was moved online due to COVID-19. Learn what advice she has for other students who will be doing the same in the coming weeks.
Thursday, March 12, 2020
PhD student Sopie Watts is spending a semester in Auckland, New Zealand developing and testing gene-editing tools to help improve and transform apple crops.
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Student Ashley MacDonald studies why Canadians are throwing away so much food 鈥斅燼nd how food waste prevention and management strategies can be improved to address the problem.