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                            Student Life, Health Professions
                    
            
                    Thursday, March 17, 2016
            Hosted this past weekend by the School of Health and Human Performance Graduate Society, Dal Crossroads is an adjudicated and peer-reviewed event that allows students of all levels from across Canada to share health-related research.
        
                    
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                            Medicine, Research
                    
            
                    Thursday, March 17, 2016
            What does it mean when we don't get vaccines? Dr. Langley, the CIHR-GSK Chair in Pediatric Vaccinology, discusses the impact of immunization programs and their importance for disease prevention.
        
                    
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                            Student Life, Research, Medicine, Graduate Studies, Biomedical Engineering
                    
            
                    Thursday, March 17, 2016
            PhD student Ubong Peters (Biomedical Engineering) took home first prize at Dal's Three-Minute Thesis finals, competing against nine other finalists to succinctly summarize their research in rapid-fire presentations. 
        
                    
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                            Agriculture, Student Life
                    
            
                    Wednesday, March 16, 2016
            Inspired by an Entomology class on Dal's Agricultural Campus, Environmental Science student Sawyer Olmstead has taken his passion for bees from the lab to the farm.
        
                    
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                            Alumni, Science, News, Physics and Atmospheric Science
                    
            
                    Wednesday, March 16, 2016
            Art McDonald, two-time Dal alum and co-recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics, returned to campus Monday night to talk with students, faculty and community members about his groundbreaking research into the fundamental building blocks of the universe.
        
                    
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                            Alumni, Dentistry
                    
            
                    Tuesday, March 15, 2016
            In her application to AV¾ãÀÖ²¿'s Faculty of Dentistry, Dr. Natalie Archer (BSc'95, DDS'01) vowed she would make a difference as a dentist. She has made it her life's work to follow through on this promise by getting to the root of elder dental care.
        
                    
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                            Student Life, Student Services, Human Resources, News
                    
            
                    Monday, March 14, 2016
            AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ launches a university-wide mental wellness initiative, aimed at building a positive mental health environment for faculty, staff and students.
        
                    
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                            Sports
                    
            
                    Monday, March 14, 2016
            Men's and women's track and field and women's basketball Tigers took part in national championships this weekend, while runners Matthew McNeil and Colleen Wilson represented Canada at the FISU World Cross Country Championships in Italy.
        
                    
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                            Sports
                    
            
                    Monday, March 14, 2016
            Shannay Beals (Track) and Matt Coolen (Track) are this week's G2 Athletes of the Week.
        
                    
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                            Student Life, History, Arts and Social Sciences
                    
            
                    Monday, March 14, 2016
            For first-year History student Ellie Street, every trip to to the archives is an adventure as she sets out to explore the history and heritage of Halifax.
         
     
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
            