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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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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 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).
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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Wednesday, June 21, 2023
ÃÀÅ®×ö°®'s Centre for Water Resources Studies has partnered with the Atlantic First Nation Water Authority — a first-of-its-kind Indigenous water utility — and Mitacs to train students supporting the mission of safer drinking water and clean wastewater for participating communities.
Friday, June 16, 2023
Shoppers Drug Mart has made a transformative $2.5 million gift to support diversity and inclusion in health education and research that aligns with Nova Scotia’s health transformation agenda.
Friday, June 16, 2023
ÃÀÅ®×ö°®â€™s Faculty of Graduate Studies presents the Governor General’s Gold Medals each year to recognize the university’s most outstanding master’s graduates. Learn more about this year's driven recipients.
Friday, June 16, 2023
Dr. David Kelvin, an infectious disease expert at Dal, is launching an $850,000 research project to identify hotspots for poxviruses and better understand their spread, filling an important knowledge gap while improving preparedness, prevention, and response efforts for future outbreaks.
Thursday, June 15, 2023
So, you have an idea you think can improve the world? An innovation that can help people in their lives? Don’t keep it to yourself, especially when it could earn you a trip to Berlin to share it on the global stage at the Falling Walls Lab competition.