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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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Andrew Riley
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.
Ben Collison and Alana Westwood
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.
Farrah Smith
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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Melanie Jollymore
Friday, January 18, 2019
A Dal PhD student is the lead author of a vital new study finding that frailty, more so than amyloid plaques and tangles in the brain, is a key risk factor for developing Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.
Courtney Law
Friday, January 18, 2019
Niki Kiepek, an assistant professor in Dal’s School of Occupational Therapy, says January is a good time to consider re-evaluating your relationship with alcohol.
Michele Charlton
Friday, January 18, 2019
º£½ÇÉçÇøapp, Metamaterial Technologies Inc. and Mitacs are teaming up to bring together new researchers and inventors in metamaterials science — an emerging field of study that seeks to manipulate light in ways never before achieved.
Cecilia Khamete
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Dr. Scott Halperin, a Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at º£½ÇÉçÇøapp and Director of the Canadian Center for Vaccinology, provides insight into the reasons for the high number of flu cases this season
Andrew Riley
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Registration is now open for Dal's annual competition of brains and brevity. Learn more about the 3 Minute Thesis event and hear from last year's winner on her strategies for success.