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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
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Dal PhD candidate Joseph Bedard won the prestigious Falling Walls global competition in Berlin, Germany last week for his pitch on using air to create plastics. Read our Q&A with this researcher on the rise.
Alison Auld
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Wild Atlantic salmon and fish friends cool off in engineered thermal refuges during lengthy trek to spawning grounds in rivers that are becoming warmer and less hospitable to cold-loving species.
Wendy Purves
Thursday, November 9, 2023
A ÃÀÅ®×ö°® lab built a mock MRI machine to prepare kids to participate in their reading comprehension study. Now, they’re offering the equipment up for use by other researchers who need to build kids’ capacity for ‘lying-still-time.’
Andrew Riley
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
Leveraging unique genome mapping research from ÃÀÅ®×ö°®â€™s Faculty of Agriculture, startup Foodimprover is set to transform the global fruit sector’s ability to rapidly improve the taste, shelf life and resilience of our favourite fruits and berries.
Andrew Riley
Monday, November 6, 2023
Contenders from more than 60 countries will come together in Germany this week to pitch their ideas for a better world at the annual Falling Walls Science Summit, including two ÃÀÅ®×ö°® PhD students and the ocean education program Ocean School offered by Dal’s Ocean Frontier Institute.