Research

Â鶹´«Ã½ researchers receive $7.5 million for projects that will improve mental health and addictions care for young people, and create healthier Nova Scotia communities through local collaboration

Â鶹´«Ã½ researchers receive $7.5 million for projects that will improve mental health and addictions care for young people, and create healthier Nova Scotia communities through local collaboration

UNITE and CIRCLES-NS are two of four projects announced by Research Nova Scotia as part of a $27-million investment, the largest to date, and first use of the Focused Research Investment fund.  Read more.

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Alison Auld
Friday, January 17, 2025
A research team led by Â鶹´«Ã½ has found that brief cognitive behavioural interventions that help young people manage such things as impulsivity, sensation seeking, sensitivity to anxiety and negative thinking can reduce teen substance use disorders.
Andrew Riley
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
This new funding establishes Â鶹´«Ã½ as the national headquarters of Lab2Market and will enable the program to expand to more than 50 Canadian universities, colleges, and research hospitals, helping to unlock the commercial potential of $7.8 billion in collective annual research funding.
Laith Alhadeed
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Researchers have joined forces with Zambian health-care professionals to create the Mfuwe Epilepsy Foundation, with a focus on improving epilepsy care in rural Zambia where health infrastructure is limited.

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Alison Auld
Friday, December 8, 2023
The finding challenges the belief that smoking marijuana is not harmful to the lungs, while adding to limited information on the effects of marijuana smoking and the combined effects of smoking marijuana and cigarettes.
Kim Humes
Thursday, December 7, 2023
Everyone is talking about the cost of living, particularly at the grocery store. The researchers behind Canada’s most-watched food-price forecast insist that some relief is coming.
Stefanie Wilson
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
Â鶹´«Ã½ placed 109 globally and 15th in Canada out of pool that’s doubled this year to include 1,403 participating universities. Find out where Dal excelled when it comes to sustainability.
Matt Reeder
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
A new book from Dr. Afua Cooper, Halifax's seventh poet laureate and a Black Studies scholar at Dal, uses poetry, vivid archival images, and evocative illustrations to paint a powerful picture of the disaster's impact on Black Haligonians.
Tanis Trainor
Monday, December 4, 2023
Dal PhD candidate Saby Mathavarajah worked with Dr. Ingo Braasch, an expert in genomics and aquaculture at Michigan State University, this year thanks to a Killam International Research Award.