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                            Research, Oceans, Biology, Science, Oceans
                    
            
                    Wednesday, July 22, 2020
            When researchers deployed 15,000 underwater video cameras on coral reefs around the world, they expected to see sharks in most if not all of the footage they would gather over a three-year span. What the research team, led by Dal biologist Aaron MacNeil, found was grim corroboration of how overfishing has dramatically depleted reef shark populations globally.
        
                    
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                            Research, Economics, Science
                    
            
                    Wednesday, July 22, 2020
            The effects of economic stress on children are big, writes Dal economist Shelley Phipps and PhD grad Nancy Kong. Parents' anxiety about their financial situation is equivalent to the effect of a divorce, and is likely at play amid COVID-19.
        
                    
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                            Research, Oceans, Science, Oceans
                    
            
                    Tuesday, July 21, 2020
            The Ocean Tracking Network has been awarded a grant of $13.4 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) Major Science Initiatives Fund, providing important resources to support the technology needed to monitor how the global ocean is changing — including tracking the movements and survival of more than 245 important species. 
        
                    
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                            Student Life, Medicine, Health Professions, Dentistry
                    
            
                    Tuesday, July 21, 2020
            When hands-on, diagnostic learning — an essential component of education across health disciplines — was threatened during the onset of COVID-19, Dal’s Collaborative Clinical Learning and Research (C3LR) stepped up to ensure this vital learning and research moved forward for students.
        
                    
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                            Research, Medicine
                    
            
                    Monday, July 20, 2020
            On July 6, the Faculty of Medicine safely welcomed back 81 research units to campus to continue their important work — something that’s only been possible with a tremendous degree of professionalism, collaboration and patience.
        
                    
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                            Student Life, Management, Commerce, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Friday, July 17, 2020
            For Commerce co-op students like Shakshita Sookrauj, the COVID-19 pandemic offered the chance to help the Province of Nova Scotia support small businesses by helping facilitate a specialized grant program.
        
                    
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                            Research, Health Professions
                    
            
                    Thursday, July 16, 2020
            PhD in Health student Crystal Watson is advancing important new knowledge on the importance of play in the lives of African Nova Scotian girls.
        
                    
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                            Student Life
                    
            
                    Thursday, July 16, 2020
            With most Dal students conducting their studies online this fall, the Together@Dal program will help build a sense of community among first-year students and introduce them to the ins and outs of the university experience.
        
                    
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                            Resource and Environmental Studies, Industrial Engineering, Law, Microbiology and Immunology, Biomedical Engineering, Research, Management, Medicine, Engineering
                    
            
                    Wednesday, July 15, 2020
            Meet the 10 stellar scholars selected for this year’s Âé¶¹Éç President’s Research Excellence Awards, which recognize research achievements of faculty members at all stages of their careers.
        
                    
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                            News, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Tuesday, July 14, 2020
            With COVID-19 requiring Pride celebrations to take place remotely, Âé¶¹Éç hosted a virtual ceremony this week to raise the Pride flag and celebrate diversity and intersectionality within the university community.