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Siobhan Takala and Isaac Greenberg, both recent graduates of Dal, were chosen by advocacy organization The Starfish Canada for inclusion on their annual list of influential young environmentalists.

Olivia Pisano, a Â鶹´«Ã½ PhD candidate in marine researcher Boris Worm's lab, is working through the Dal-based Ocean Frontier Institute on a project that enables quick scanning of satellite images in the quest for more data to understand the endangered animals' ever-changing movements due to climate change and other factors.

Ana-Maria Garniceanu, a Dal double-major in Biochemistry and French, was recently recognized with an Excellence Prize and as winner of an Atlantic inter-university essay competition by Alliance Française Halifax.

Joe Biden could return to the path blazed by Barack Obama on Cuba, when two years of bilateral negotiations helped undo more than five decades of hostility, writes John Kirk, professor of Latin American Studies at Â鶹´«Ã½.

Finlay Maguire, an expert in epidemiology and bioinformatics and a postdoctoral fellow in Dal's Faculty of Computer Science, explains how genomic data can be used to help fight against COVID-19.

Researchers at the Faculty of Agriculture have discovered the plant essential oil carvacol can rapidly kill Streptococcus pyogenes, the bacteria that causes strep throat.

They’ve travelled more than 82,000 kilometres on over 100 missions, but the most notable expedition in 2020 for Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s glider group was a trip over a Halifax harbour bridge to their brand new space at the Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship on the Dartmouth waterfront.

Peek into the past to see what was making news at Â鶹´«Ã½ 50 years ago during the publication of the university’s first issue of University News, the predecessor to today’s Dal News.