As part of African Heritage Month celebrations, AV¾ãÀÖ²¿â€™s Black Student Advising Centre invited the Honourable Canadian Senator Dr. Wanda Thomas Bernard — a former faculty member in the School of Social Work — for a discussion on her experiences as a Black female leader.

Dr. OmiSoore H. Dryden, an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersections of health science, social science and humanities, has been named the new James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies at AV¾ãÀÖ²¿.

For Earth Sciences Professor Anne-Marie Ryan, a great classroom is built on great conversation. Now, her community-based approach has earned her Canada's top recognition for university teaching: the 3M National Teaching Fellowship.

For Move More month this February, AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ is offering all regular full- and part-time faculty and staff a six month membership to one of the university's three on-campus fitness facilities.

Dal ESL teacher Tracy Franz’s memoir "My Year of Dirt and Water," which documents her experiences living and teaching in Japan, has earned raves from the New York Times, the Literary Review and elsewhere.

Dal grad student Nicole Bell and two colleagues in the Civil and Resource Engineering department held a youth science workshop in Baker Lake, Nunavut last November, using fun experiments and activities as way to introduce Inuit youth to concepts such as water purification, water quality, DNA extraction and biodiversity.

A new project led by researchers in AV¾ãÀÖ²¿'s Department of Psychiatry will explore the genetic factors that play a role in bipolar disorder (BD). Drs. Martin Alda and Rudolf Uher say their work could lead to new clinical tools to better diagnose and treat the disease.

Reagan Crowell (Swimming) and Alec Karlsen (Swimming) are this week's AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ MUSCLE MLK Athletes of the Week.

Four new AUS championship banners are set to fly on campus thanks to victories this past weekend from the women's and women's swim teams and the men's and women's curling teams.

A student-led movement dedicated to providing free menstrual products to those in need has made its way to AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ thanks to the efforts of students Lucy MacLeod and Claire Sethuram.