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Marie Visca  –  Student Life, Health Professions
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Hosted this past weekend by the School of Health and Human Performance Graduate Society, Dal Crossroads is an adjudicated and peer-reviewed event that allows students of all levels from across Canada to share health-related research.
Matt Reeder  –  Medicine, Research
Thursday, March 17, 2016
What does it mean when we don't get vaccines? Dr. Langley, the CIHR-GSK Chair in Pediatric Vaccinology, discusses the impact of immunization programs and their importance for disease prevention.
Nick Wright  –  Student Life, Research, Medicine, Graduate Studies, Biomedical Engineering
Thursday, March 17, 2016
PhD student Ubong Peters (Biomedical Engineering) took home first prize at Dal's Three-Minute Thesis finals, competing against nine other finalists to succinctly summarize their research in rapid-fire presentations.
Katherine Doyle  –  Agriculture, Student Life
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Inspired by an Entomology class on Dal's Agricultural Campus, Environmental Science student Sawyer Olmstead has taken his passion for bees from the lab to the farm.
Ryan McNutt  –  Alumni, Science, News, Physics and Atmospheric Science
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Art McDonald, two-time Dal alum and co-recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics, returned to campus Monday night to talk with students, faculty and community members about his groundbreaking research into the fundamental building blocks of the universe.
Mark Campbell  –  Alumni, Dentistry
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
In her application to AV¾ãÀÖ²¿'s Faculty of Dentistry, Dr. Natalie Archer (BSc'95, DDS'01) vowed she would make a difference as a dentist. She has made it her life's work to follow through on this promise by getting to the root of elder dental care.
Kelly Taylor  –  Student Life, Student Services, Human Resources, News
Monday, March 14, 2016
AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ launches a university-wide mental wellness initiative, aimed at building a positive mental health environment for faculty, staff and students.
AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ Sports Information  –  Sports
Monday, March 14, 2016
Men's and women's track and field and women's basketball Tigers took part in national championships this weekend, while runners Matthew McNeil and Colleen Wilson represented Canada at the FISU World Cross Country Championships in Italy.
AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ Sports Information  –  Sports
Monday, March 14, 2016
Shannay Beals (Track) and Matt Coolen (Track) are this week's G2 Athletes of the Week.
Sarah Delaney  –  Student Life, History, Arts and Social Sciences
Monday, March 14, 2016
For first-year History student Ellie Street, every trip to to the archives is an adventure as she sets out to explore the history and heritage of Halifax.