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                            Pharmacology, Biology, Science, Medicine, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Monday, November 30, 2015
            Dal profs Jonathan Wright (Biology) and Eileen Denovan-Wright (Pharmacology) took part in a five-day expedition to Machu Picchu this past September to raise funds for the Arthritis Society of Canada.
        
                    
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                            Sports
                    
            
                    Monday, November 30, 2015
            Ainsley MacIntyre (Basketball) and Kashrell Lawrence (Basketball) are this week's G2 Athletes of the Week.
        
                    
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                            Sports
                    
            
                    Monday, November 30, 2015
            This weekend, the men's and women's hockey teams hosted StFX and the cross country team competed in the ANS Open, while the basketball teams played StFX for some four-point games.
        
                    
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                            Student Life, German, Arts and Social Sciences
                    
            
                    Friday, November 27, 2015
            Student Kelly Lucas's exchange experiences inspired her to become Dal's first ambassador for the German Academic Exchange Service.
        
                    
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                            Alumni, Environmental Programs, Science
                    
            
                    Friday, November 27, 2015
            Zoë Caron (BSc’07) first took a stand for the environment when she was six years old. More than two decades later, she’s made some impressive headway in resolving issues of ecology, sustainability and conservation at home and around the globe.
        
                    
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                            Student Life, Science, News, Economics
                    
            
                    Friday, November 27, 2015
            From her Foundation Year Programme studies at King's to her Economics courses next door at Dal, Sarah Burns's academic journey is about to take her overseas as a prestigious Rhodes Scholar.
        
                    
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                            News, Senior Administration
                    
            
                    Thursday, November 26, 2015
            The Report from the Committee on Aboriginal and Black/African Canadian Student Access and Retention, commissioned by the Provost’s Office, looks to boost the pool of Aboriginal and Black/African-Canadian students within the Dal community.
        
                    
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                            Medicine, Health Professions, Dentistry, News, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Thursday, November 26, 2015
            Support from the Johnson Scholarship Foundation will allow Âé¶¹Éç to expand the reach and impact of two programs designed to support diversity in health care: Promoting Leadership in Health for African Nova Scotians (PLANS) and the Aboriginal Health Sciences Initiative (AHSI).
        
                    
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                            Research, Medicine, News, Biomedical Engineering
                    
            
                    Thursday, November 26, 2015
            Biomedical Engineering student Hugo Vihvelin used his internship with local startup (and Dal spinoff) company Daxsonics Ultrasound to develop new health-care applications for his high-efficiency electronics research.
        
                    
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                            Student Life, Agriculture, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Thursday, November 26, 2015
            At the age of eight, John Yool fled his native Sudan. Now, he's partway into his second Âé¶¹Éç degree, having come to the university through the World University Service Canada's Student Refugee Program.