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                            Research, Medicine
                    
            
                    Friday, April 17, 2015
            First-year Medicine student Victoria Bentley is co-author on two new cancer research studies out of AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ Medical School's Zebrafish Core Facility that hope to improve treatments for patients with leukemia.
        
                    
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                            Health and Human Performance, Social Work, Health Professions, News
                    
            
                    Friday, April 17, 2015
            Next week Dal's Faculty of Health Professions is launching two new online courses that anyone in the world can take for free, featuring internationally renowned faculty members Michael Ungar and Sara Kirk.
        
                    
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                            News, Human Resources
                    
            
                    Friday, April 17, 2015
            This year's edition of Dal's workplace survey will provide more information to both the university and its faculty and staff.
        
                    
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                            Chemistry, Research, Science
                    
            
                    Wednesday, April 15, 2015
            Chemistry Professor Mary Anne White has uncovered new discoveries about the disorderly nature of the periodic table's fifth element.
        
                    
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                            Convocation, News, Senior Administration
                    
            
                    Wednesday, April 15, 2015
            Ten outstanding individuals will receive honorary degrees at Spring Convocation this year, including autism activist Dr. Temple Grandin, Mayo Clinic President Dr. John Noseworthy, human rights advocate Sheila Watt-Cloutier and economic thought leader Kevin Lynch.
        
                    
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                            Sports
                    
            
                    Wednesday, April 15, 2015
            Tigers swim coach Lance Cansdale will lead Canada's swim team at the 2015 FISU Games in Gwangju, Korea this July.
        
                    
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                            Research, Architecture and Planning, Architecture
                    
            
                    Tuesday, April 14, 2015
            Dal grad Matthew Griffin-Allwood's award-winning masters thesis explores how infrastructure on Nova Scotia's Sable Island could be integrated with a changing natural environment.
        
                    
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                            Student Life, News, Graduate Studies
                    
            
                    Tuesday, April 14, 2015
            Masters and PhD students from across the university presented their research last week at the preliminary heats for Dal's Three-Minute Thesis competition. The final round takes place this Thursday night.
        
                    
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                            Agriculture, Research
                    
            
                    Friday, April 10, 2015
            Faculty of Agriculture food chemist Chibuike Udenigwe is exploring how chains of proteins called "peptides" in dairy products affect certain areas of human health
        
                    
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                            Student Life, Management, Commerce, News, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Friday, April 10, 2015
            Students in the fourth-year Marketing Strategy class have been helping local businesses and non-profits like Neptune Theatre, Freak Lunchbox and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia develop marketing plans.
         
     
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
            