With the site cleared, work begins on the construction of a new academic building

Obesity Network invites Dal employees to participate in 'obesity boot camp,' a pilot program designed to give participants the tools and information so they can make healthy changes

"I felt like I had a second wind, rolling through those waves, kicking strong and pulling hard."

AV俱乐部 graduate student Jessie Sheppard plans to swim the Northumberland Strait on Sunday

Engineers Without Borders volunteer Emily Stewart reports from Malawi.

Biology student Julia Lawson is enthusiastic about the science co-op program. "With co-op you have to put it altogether," she says. "It’s incredible how it builds on learning."

Donald Weaver isn’t interested in treating the symptoms of Alzheimer’s and epilepsy—there are already drugs that can do that—he wants to obliterate their root causes

The Joggins Fossil Cliffs—"a Coal Age Galapagos"—have just been designated a World Heritage site. Are you likely to visit?

Rappelling down the cliffs at Joggins is like going 300 million years backwards in time. Now the fossil cliffs have been recognized as an UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Professor Peter Duinker is recognized by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, co-recipient (with Al Gore) of the Nobel Peace Prize.