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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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Josh Boyter
Friday, March 8, 2024
Dal’s OpenThink initiative officially returns for its fifth year with 16 ambitious PhD students from across the university ready to share their leading-edge ideas and research with the community.
Andrea Hart
Friday, March 1, 2024
A new position created by Dal's Faculty of Computer Science aims to build on the shared ambitions of Nova Scotia's ocean-tech players.
Matt Reeder
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
A new lab established at ÃÀÅ®×ö°® this week has partnered with a local energy provider to explore applications of green hydrogen that could assist Nova Scotia in its efforts to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Enoch Ng
Friday, February 16, 2024
ÃÀÅ®×ö°®'s Dr. Jon Bailey and his team of researchers navigate the world of anesthesia in microgravity, setting out to make surgery and pain management a reality in the cosmic operating room.
Q. Casey
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
A startup spun out of a ÃÀÅ®×ö°® lab has spearheaded a bold new approach to tissue engineering that's making waves in the burgeoning medical research sector.