Dalhousie University

A new partnership was announced today between Dalhousie Medical School and Cape Breton University (CBU), and aims to create solutions to alleviate family physician shortages in rural Nova Scotia, including Cape Breton, Mi’kmaq and African…

Older adults can live at home longer, healthier, and more actively when there are community supports and services in place to meet their needs. Led by researchers in Dalhousie’s Faculty of Health, a new project involves working with three…

A team of researchers in Atlantic Canada is examining the impact of tuition waiver programs for youth who have spent time in foster care.The project, led by researchers at Dalhousie and Mount Saint Vincent University, which both offer the…

Dalhousie maintains its place among the top 22 per cent in the 2023 QS World University Rankings, which this year included 1,422 institutions from around the world.Now ranked at 308 globally, Dalhousie holds on to the 12th place ranking…

As the automotive industry rapidly evolves into a future fuelled by electric-powered vehicles, students in Dalhousie’s Faculty of Engineering are accelerating their own technologies in renewable and sustainable energy.The Faculty’s…

Dalhousie officially celebrated the re-opening of the renewed Cox Institute of Agricultural Technology last week, roughly four years after a fire destroyed the academic facility's east wing, rendering it unusable.Although the building was…

As COVID-19 began its spread around the world after emerging in China, people of Asian descent started to experience one of the pandemic's uglier consequences — a surge in discrimination that involved both verbal and physical abuse.In…

A new initiative launching at Dal this month offers anyone an opportunity to take select courses at the university fully online without applying to a program.Dal’s Faculty of Open Learning & Career Development led the development of…

A small-school experience with big-city impact. That’s the idea behind a new academic option starting on Dalhousie’s Truro Campus in September 2022.Incoming Faculty of Science students now have the option to complete the first year of…