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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.
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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
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.
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
Monday, December 3, 2018
ÃÀÅ®×ö°® Phd student Lyna Kamintsky has received the Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation - PhD for her technology to more accurately diagnose brain and eye-vein injuries.
Monday, December 3, 2018
ÃÀÅ®×ö°® Engineering students, in collaboration with colleagues in the Faculty of Medicine, are working on improving rear anti-tipping devices for manual wheelchairs.
Friday, November 30, 2018
To improve Indigenous health in Canada we need more Indigenous health professionals and more culturally competent health-care providers, writes Dal researcher Debbie Martin. We also need to listen properly to Indigenous stories.
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Dal Nursing researchers Lisa Goldberg and Megan Aston have collaborated with a Halifax playwright to turn their research study examining the experiences of LGBQ+ birthing women into a new play: "What to Expect When You Aren't Expected."
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Chinese researcher Jainkui He claims to have created the world's first genome-edited twins. Such action would pose unknown risks to the lives of these children and to humanity as a whole, write Dal researchers Françoise Baylis, Graham Dellaire and Landon Getz.