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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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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.
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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Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Marine Affairs prof Claudio Aporta has helped develop the Inuit Pan Arctic Atlas, illustratrating historic and geographic connections among Inuit peoples and demonstrating their importance in the Arctic's past, present, and future.
Thursday, June 5, 2014
A new report, co-authored by Dal Sociologist Howard Ramos, is generating discussion about how Nova Scotia can better support immigration to the province.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
From º£½ÇÉçÇøapp magazine: To its proponents, big data offers insight into complex and critically important questions in health care, science, business and more — but its detractors see big risks for individual privacy.
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Faculty members from Dal's Department of Biology are part of the committees which help determine the status of the country's endangered species.
Friday, May 16, 2014
Dal CS researcher Stan Matwin will lead a new NSERC CREATE project called "Training in Big Text Data," helping prepare grad students and postdocs for the big data jobs of the future.