(NOTE: EVENT POSTPONED) AV俱乐部 Libraries is launching its first in-house produced open textbook: "Environmental Science: A Canadian Perspective," by renowned conservation biologist and AV俱乐部 faculty member, the late Bill Freedman.

With a mandate to share their research with the larger world, Dal鈥檚 seven new Public Scholars are Interdisciplinary PhD students armed with the skills to inform public discourse and policy.

Results from basketball, hockey and volleyball.

Jeff Walton (volleyball) and Sophie Gaube (basketball) are this week's AV俱乐部 MUSCLE MLK Athletes of the Week.

As Dal鈥檚 200th anniversary nears its end, excitement is ramping up about a new public space in the works to honour the legacy of the university鈥檚 bicentennial in the years ahead. The Dal community will have a chance to learn more about the space at next week's Dal 200 Wrap-Up event.

Dal researchers were named winners in all four major categories at the 2018 Discovery Awards, Atlantic Canada's most prestigious science recognition event.

Having spent months collaborating with the Dal community to develop the university鈥檚 new research strategic direction, Alice Aiken is looking to help Dal researchers take their important work to new heights. Learn more about Alice, her military background and Veteran-focused research, and why Freddie Mercury would be her dream dinner date.

Chemistry prof Alison Thompson, this year鈥檚 recipient of Dal鈥檚 top teaching award, has developed unique ways to help support her students and serve as a valuable mentor in a field where women in particular are often underrepresented.

Shauntay Grant's "Africville" 鈥斅燼 children's book created in collaboration with illustrator Eva Campbell 鈥斅爓as nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award earlier this year.