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Award‑winning student essay asks what fractures community — and why showing up can help build it

Award‑winning student essay asks what fractures community — and why showing up can help build it

Mia Mackenzie, a Master of Social Work student, earned top honours in Dal’s Glovin Award for an essay urging people to resist division by showing up and staying accountable to community.  Read more.

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Farrah Smith
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Psychology student and varsity basketball player Melina Collins is this year's recipient of the Dr. Anne Marie Ryan Community Growth Award, recognized for her work bringing athletes and young learners together through a literacy mentorship program.
Matt Reeder
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
As exams and deadlines converge, the Killam and other campus libraries become places of problem‑solving, empathy, and practical help, highlighting how support services carry students through critical academic moments.
Kenneth Conrad, Graeme Gunn, Kate Rogers, Tanis Trainor
Thursday, March 26, 2026
This year’s Dal Board of Governors winners show how purposeful action creates lasting change. Get to know more now about how they are doing so.

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William Young
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
To be a co-op student in 2020 required a greater degree of fortitude than usual. Get to know the six outstanding students who rose to the challenge, taking Top Co-op Students of the Year honours for their contributions.
Stephen Abbott
Friday, March 19, 2021
Kayleigh Landers and Annika Benson competed against seven other teams in this year’s Canadian Engineering Competition, emerging on top with their design of an accessible campus and the repurposing of salmon cages.
Brittany Warren
Thursday, March 18, 2021
For the Winter 2021 term, º£½ÇÉçÇøapp Management Career Services supported the largest cohort of Commerce Co-op students in the history of the program — with nearly all of them successfully landing positions.
Jocelyn Adams
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Today marks two years since the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash that tragically took the lives of Angela Rehhorn and Danielle Moore, both 24-year old graduates of Dal’s marine biology program. Now, as a way to honour their daughter’s legacy, Rehhorn's parents are offering support for student mental health services at Dal.
Alison DeLory
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Learn how Dal and its community are uniting to help and how you can help, too.