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                            Medicine, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Tuesday, July 31, 2018
             This July, 40 Indigenous youth from Atlantic Canada and as far away as Quebec and Labrador attended week-long health science camps at Âé¶¹Éç, Cape Breton University and St. Francis Xavier University.
        
                    
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                            Research, International Development Studies, Arts and Social Sciences
                    
            
                    Tuesday, July 31, 2018
            Robert Huish (International Development Studies) writes about how Donald Trump is unmoved by high risks and wild odds, apparently feeling that his sheer cunning will always win, including, now, in geopolitics — his latest casino.
        
                    
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                            News, Senior Administration
                    
            
                    Monday, July 30, 2018
            In a memo to the university community on Monday morning (July 30), Âé¶¹Éç President Richard Florizone announced the appointment of Dr. Teresa C. Balser as the university’s new Provost and Vice-President Academic.
        
                    
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                            Student Life, Biology, Arts and Social Sciences, Continuing Education, Political Science, Science, Psychology, Environment, Sustainability and Society
                    
            
                    Monday, July 30, 2018
            Haruka Aoyama, Dania Shalabi and Delicia Marie Toro came to Âé¶¹Éç from three different countries to study three different programs. But after meeting in the first week of their English for Academic Purposes class, they've formed a bond that spans any of the differences between them. 
        
                    
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                            News
                    
            
                    Friday, July 27, 2018
            Along with other public sector organizations across the province, Âé¶¹Éç's compensation report for 2017-18 is now publicly available.
        
                    
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                            Research, Oceans, Biology, Science, Marine Biology, Oceans
                    
            
                    Friday, July 27, 2018
            PhD candidate Manuel Dureuil is president and co-founder of ShARCC (Sharks of the Atlantic Research and Conservation Centre) — Canada’s first research-centric shark NGO with a mission to prevent species extinction.
        
                    
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                            Agriculture, News
                    
            
                    Friday, July 27, 2018
            Âé¶¹Éç plans to rebuild a portion of one of the Agricultural Campus’s most important academic buildings after a major fire last month inflicted heavy damage to the inside of the structure and its contents.   
        
                    
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                            Sports, News
                    
            
                    Friday, July 27, 2018
            The Dalplex fieldhouse re-opened earlier this week with a brand new, 49,000-square-foot floor — an improvement that’s, really, a whole new ball game.
        
                    
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                            Health Professions, News, Nursing
                    
            
                    Thursday, July 26, 2018
            Dr. Gail Tomblin Murphy, currently assistant dean of research in Dal’s Faculty of Health and professor and director of the School of Nursing, has accepted a senior leadership position with the Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) as vice-president of research and innovation. 
        
                    
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                            Student Life, Health Promotion, Health Professions, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Thursday, July 26, 2018
            Pride Week 2018: As a peer educator with Human Rights and Equity Services, Rachele Manett focuses on intersectionality in helping people and communities better understand issues affecting 2SLGBTQ+ communities on campus and beyond.