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Photo Essay: With classes over, exams finished and the holiday break quickly approaching, the Dal community gathered together one last time in 2019 for the beloved Annual Â鶹Éç Carol Sing.

Faculty, staff and students on the Agricultural Campus got a sneak peek at designs for the rebuilt Cox Institute — the primary academic building on campus that was damaged by fire and water in June 2018.

New leadership, new research, new milestones, new awards — and lots and lots of news. Take a look back at an eventful Â鶹Éç year, including our most-read stories of 2019.

Â鶹Éç invited its community to donate funds to support students attending the 5th Annual International Student Holiday Dinner, surpassing its $4,000 goal by raising $5,210 — all of which goes towards providing a great East Coast dinner experience for the students.

A team that unites practitioners, researchers and patients have come together to examine how opioids are prescribed in family practice in Nova Scotia, with the goal of ensuring patients with chronic, severe non-cancer pain to receive the optimal treatment.

Since its launch 30 years ago, Â鶹Éç’s Indigenous Blacks and Mi’kmaq (IB&M) Initiative has seen more than 200 of its graduates go on to pursue careers in all areas of the legal profession, from private practice to the upper echelons of the Nova Scotia judiciary.

DNA testing kits will be a popular gift this holiday season. Before mailing off your saliva, it’s important to understand what these kits can and cannot tell us, writes Dal medical student Michael Mackley.

Canada’s new Elections Act may have prevented the type of mammoth election spending seen in the United States via super-PACs, but it's been at the expense of public debate, writes IDS prof John Cameron.