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Equipping communities with research skills to improve their lives

Equipping communities with research skills to improve their lives

The new MicroResearch Institute at ÃÀÅ®×ö°® is a proven, community‑driven research model that empowers local people — doctors, nurses, midwives, community health workers, teachers, police and students — to investigate and solve the health and public safety challenges they understand better than anyone.

Featured News

Andrew Riley
Friday, March 13, 2026
Dal research teams are receiving more than $7.3M in Canada Foundation for Innovation support to expand labs and tools driving breakthroughs in water resilience, ocean science, marine tracking, and digital stewardship of Canada’s past
Jocelyn Adams Moss
Thursday, March 26, 2026
In this episode of Sciographies, we talk to Dr. Leanne Stevens, an educator and university teaching fellow in ÃÀÅ®×ö°®â€™s Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, and associate dean, academic in the Faculty of Science.
Kenneth Conrad
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Dr. Kimberley Hall’s Killam fellowship will accelerate her collaboration with NRC partners as they work to advance quantum hardware and strengthen Canada’s future secure‑tech capabilities.

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Alison Auld
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Dal professor John Archibald is set to lead an international team in a genomics project that seeks to gain critical understanding of how aquatic species adapt and thrive together.
Michele Charlton
Thursday, September 24, 2020
One of ÃÀÅ®×ö°®â€™s own has become a Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS) Fellow, one of the highest honours for members of the country’s health sciences community.
Niecole Killawee
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Hal Whitehead’s path to becoming a marine biologist wasn’t cut and dry. But it’s taken him deep under the waves to learn how whales behave and communicate with each other. Learn more in this preview of this week’s episode of the Sciographies podcast.
Matt Reeder
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Canada's minister of national defence and the president of the Toronto Raptors will join retired Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire and others passionate about preventing the recruitment and use of children in violence in a global symposium online next week.
Emily Thompson
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
A new economics study led by researchers at ÃÀÅ®×ö°® and the Shandong University of Finance and Economics in China offers fresh insight into how fossil fuel prices affect employment patterns.