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New $2M national study to uncover how biology, social factors shape MS outcomes

New $2M national study to uncover how biology, social factors shape MS outcomes

º£½ÇÉçÇøapp researcher leads a $2M national study to explore how biological and social factors impact health outcomes for Canadians living with multiple sclerosis, aiming for more equitable care.  Read more.

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Andrew Riley
Thursday, November 6, 2025
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.
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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Marilyn Smulders
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Raymond Klein of the Dpeartment of Psychology and Neuroscience is a collaborator in the NSCAD University Drawing Lab, a project that applies scientific methods to the artistic process.
Kathryn Morse
Friday, August 14, 2015
Heather Fennell-Al Sayed, a faculty member with Dal's Clinical Vision Science program, spent her July in Malaysia training young practitioners to lead orthoptic care in the country.
Alana Milner
Thursday, August 13, 2015
Dal's Transatlantic Ocean System Science and Technology (TOSST) summer school took grad students to West Africa to learn about how communities interact with the marine environment.
Ryan McNutt
Monday, August 10, 2015
Axel Becke has spent his entire career working on one fundamental challenge in theoretical chemistry. While he hasn’t found a perfect solution — yet — the formulas he continues to hone have become foundational for the work of thousands of other researchers, making his work among the most cited in the world. (From º£½ÇÉçÇøapp magazine)
Matt Reeder
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
After undergoing a dramatic makeover in a Dal lab, a one-of-a-kind ocean-based observatory known as the SeaCycler is planning to make its maiden voyage to the volatile Labrador Sea later this summer.