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                            News, Community & Culture, Senior Administration
                    
            
                    Wednesday, May 15, 2024
            Dr. Candace Brunette-Debassige shared findings from her recent book, Tricky Grounds: Indigenous Women's Experiences in Canadian University Administration, during a recent talk at Dal.
        
                    
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                            Health and Human Performance, Continuing Education, Health Professions, News, Senior Administration, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Wednesday, May 15, 2024
            Prof. Susan Holmes and Dr. David Westwood were recognized by colleagues this week for their unique and extraordinary leadership in the university's top academic governing body.
        
                    
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                            Computer Science, Student Life, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Wednesday, May 15, 2024
             The Isaac MacDonald Memorial Bursary for Students with Dyslexia will provide a way for students to gain access to funding for psychoeducational assessments.
        
                    
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                            Medicine, Research, Community Health and Epidemiology
                    
            
                    Tuesday, May 14, 2024
            Community health researcher Dr. Alexa Yakubovich is addressing Nova Scotia’s high rate of violence against women by embedding within IWK Health to work more closely with front-line health professionals.
        
                    
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                            News, Senior Administration
                    
            
                    Monday, May 13, 2024
            A message from President Kim Brooks and Vice-Provost Student Affairs Rick Ezekiel on May 13.
        
                    
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                            Medicine, Research
                    
            
                    Monday, May 13, 2024
            Scientists from Dal's Brain Repair Centre believe this damage may contribute to brain dysfunction in some athletes years after play has ended.
        
                    
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                            Alumni, Community & Culture, Engineering
                    
            
                    Monday, May 13, 2024
            The legacy of business magnate Arthur Irving, the chairman emeritus of Irving Oil, will live on at Âé¶¹Éç, especially through the Irving Oil Auditorium and through his support of Dal Engineering students.
        
                    
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                            Research, News, Engineering
                    
            
                    Friday, May 10, 2024
            The Emera ideaHUB on Dal's downtown Sexton Campus will receive new funding from the Government of Nova Scotia to support startups focused on health care-related products and technologies.
        
                    
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                            Sports, News
                    
            
                    Thursday, May 9, 2024
            Accomplished runner Paula Peters James, volleyball legend Tara MacIntyre Olesen, cross-country champion Bob Book, the 1996 Baseball team and the 1972 and 1973 golf teams were recognized for achieving excellence in athletics at an induction ceremony Wednesday evening.
        
                    
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                            English, Arts and Social Sciences
                    
            
                    Wednesday, May 8, 2024
            To understand how ‘Furiosa’ and other new films challenge car culture’s male-centric conventions, it’s useful to look closely at how car culture has favoured a certain kind of male hero.