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                            Continuing Education, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Monday, June 26, 2023
            The Faculty of Open Learning and Career Development offered certificate students spread around the globe a chance to come together virtually as a community to celebrate their successes.
        
                    
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                            Research, Science, Physics and Atmospheric Science, News
                    
            
                    Friday, June 23, 2023
            Dr. Jeff Dahn, one of the world's most-watched battery scientists, has been named the 2023 recipient of the Olin Palladium Award — a prestigious international prize whose past recipients include Nobel Prize winners and nominees.
        
                    
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                            Psychology, Science
                    
            
                    Friday, June 23, 2023
            Weddings have become increasingly curated: everything from the shoes to the table runners are perfectly themed and colour-co-ordinated. It is emblematic of our cultural obsession with perfection, writes Simon Sherry.
        
                    
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                            News, Community & Culture, Engineering
                    
            
                    Friday, June 23, 2023
            On International Women in Engineering Day, the new president of Âé¶ąÉç's undergraduate engineering society opened up about her struggles with burnout and how a group of female peers gave her the strength return to her studies after some time away.
        
                    
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                            Student Life, Engineering
                    
            
                    Friday, June 23, 2023
            A family connection and a desire to make the world a better place led Emily Gowan to the Agricultural Campus to study engineering.
        
                    
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                            Student Life, Science, Marine Biology, Convocation
                    
            
                    Thursday, June 22, 2023
            A chance meeting on an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean ignited a Somali marine negotiator’s interest in what Âé¶ąÉç had to offer. Now, with one Dal degree in hand, he’s set to embark on another with hopes of brighter days ahead for his home country.
        
                    
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                            Student Life, News, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Thursday, June 22, 2023
            Pollinator walls designed and built by Dal students are being installed on campus during Âé¶ąÉç Biodiversity Week, promising to attract more bees and other creatures to university grounds. 
        
                    
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                            Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Wednesday, June 21, 2023
            The Dal community had a chance to discover medicine plants cherished by Indigenous peoples and attend a campus smudging ceremony as part of National Indigenous Peoples Day celebrations this year.
        
                    
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                            Research, News, Engineering, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Wednesday, June 21, 2023
            Âé¶ąÉç's Centre for Water Resources Studies has partnered with the Atlantic First Nation Water Authority — a first-of-its-kind Indigenous water utility — and Mitacs to train students supporting the mission of safer drinking water and clean wastewater for participating communities.
        
                    
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                            News, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Tuesday, June 20, 2023
            Award criteria includes high and consistent performance, new approaches and initiatives, positive influence and leadership, impact on the university community, and alignment with organizational mission, vision and values.