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                            Sports
                    
            
                    Monday, January 21, 2019
            There was lots of home and away action this past weekend for the Tigers.
        
                    
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                            Research, Medicine
                    
            
                    Friday, January 18, 2019
            A Dal PhD student is the lead author of a vital new study finding that frailty, more so than amyloid plaques and tangles in the brain, is a key risk factor for developing Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.
        
                    
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                            Research, Health Professions
                    
            
                    Friday, January 18, 2019
            Niki Kiepek, an assistant professor in Dal’s School of Occupational Therapy, says January is a good time to consider re-evaluating your relationship with alcohol.
        
                    
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                            Research, Physics and Atmospheric Science, Science
                    
            
                    Friday, January 18, 2019
            Âé¶¹Éç, Metamaterial Technologies Inc. and Mitacs are teaming up to bring together new researchers and inventors in metamaterials science — an emerging field of study that seeks to manipulate light in ways never before achieved.
        
                    
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                            International, News, Arts and Social Sciences
                    
            
                    Friday, January 18, 2019
            Lt. General (Ret’d) Roméo Dallaire and Shelly Whitman, executive director of the Dal-based Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative, had a private audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican Thursday morning to discuss the initative's global mission to end the recruitment and use of child soldiers.
        
                    
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                            Sports, MBA, Management
                    
            
                    Thursday, January 17, 2019
            As a Top 8 Academic All-Canadian this year, Sven Stammberger is one of the top student-athletes in Canada. The basketball player's story is one of grit, resilience and success on and off the court.
        
                    
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                            Sports, Science
                    
            
                    Thursday, January 17, 2019
            For student-athletes like swimmer Isabel Sarty, having academic mentors and advocates in their corner makes all the difference in the world.
        
                    
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                            News, Senior Administration
                    
            
                    Thursday, January 17, 2019
            Peter MacKinnon, set to lead the university into the first months of its third century, sits down with Dal News for a discussion about his time as a Âé¶¹Éç student, his views on his new role and what he envisions for his interim presidency.
        
                    
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                            Research, News
                    
            
                    Wednesday, January 16, 2019
            Dr. Scott Halperin, a Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Âé¶¹Éç and Director of the Canadian Center for Vaccinology, provides insight into the reasons for the high number of flu cases this season
        
                    
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                            Student Life, Research, Science, News, Graduate Studies
                    
            
                    Wednesday, January 16, 2019
            Registration is now open for Dal's annual competition of brains and brevity. Learn more about the 3 Minute Thesis event and hear from last year's winner on her strategies for success.