Research

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.

Archives - Research

Allison Kincade
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
In the next few years, there may be as many as 30 billion different devices connected to the Internet, including many everyday objects you find in your home. That poses major challenges for everything from security to reliability – challenges Computer Science prof Srini Sampalli and his team in the MYTech Lab are working to address.
Melanie Jollymore
Monday, March 11, 2019
A ÃÀÅ®×ö°® pain researcher and a former Much Music-host-turned-parenting-blogger are helping millions of parents around the world learn how to help relieve their children’s pain with the #ItDoesntHaveToHurt initiative.
Cecilia Khamete
Friday, March 8, 2019
March 8 is International Women’s Day, and Dal leaders and researchers — including Vice-President Research & Innovation Alice Aiken and Computer Science prof Rita Orji — are helping lead important community conversations about how research can be harnessed to further equity and social change.
Theresa Salah
Thursday, March 7, 2019
An autonomous sailboat launched in July by Dal Engineering researchers was presumed lost at sea during its transatlantic journey — until it washed up on a beach in Ireland last week.
Andrew Riley
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Some of Dal's brightest and boldest graduate students are set to showcase their research in Dal's annual Three Minute Thesis competition. Meet some of the competitors and make plans to attend the finals on March 13.