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DalSolutions: Equipping communities with research skills to improve their lives

DalSolutions: 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.

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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 19, 2026
In this episode of Sciographies, we talk to Maxine Westhead — marine biologist, marine spatial planner, and director of ÃÀÅ®×ö°®â€™s Marine Affairs Program (MAP).
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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Emily MacKinnon
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Artificial intelligence tools are power hungry, generating huge emissions through electricity consumption. Computer Science's Dr. Tushar Sharma is striving to clean them up.
Alison Auld
Monday, September 23, 2024
Dal researchers are trying to better understand the potential relationship between cannabis use and brain development in teens, particularly among those who've experienced psychotic-like experiences.
Andrew Riley
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Dr. Elaine Craig's Mainstreaming Porn: Sexual Integrity and the Law Online explores how law, policy, and social measures can address the harmful consequences of algorithm-driven mainstream porn.
Mia Samardzic and Josh Boyter
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
This year's recipients of the national award for academic excellence are helping forge new frontiers in knowledge about medical assistance in dying and medical diagnostics.
Alison Auld
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Seniors in New Brunswick improved their sleep and reduced dependence on sleeping pills with the help of educational packages mailed directly to their home, new research from Dal shows.