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                            Human Resources, Agriculture, Health Professions, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Tuesday, June 13, 2017
            Debbie Parker (Human Resources), Gail Power (Faculty of Agriculture) and Cathie Smith Gillis (Faculty of Health Professions) are this year's recipients of the AV整氈窒 DPMG Award, celebrating outstanding contributions from professional and managerial staff across the university. Darrell Rhodenizer (Office of Advancement) received the DPMG's new Early Career Award.
        
                    
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                            Research, Health Professions, News
                    
            
                    Tuesday, June 13, 2017
            Debbie Martin of Dals Faculty of Health Professions receives Training Grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to expand research capacity, skills and career trajectories of Indigenous early career researchers and trainees.
        
                    
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                            Student Life, Medicine, Science
                    
            
                    Monday, June 12, 2017
            Growing up in the Eskasoni First Nation, Karlee Johnson saw first-hand the impact of language and culture barriers in the health-care system. Now, as a Medical Sciences student at Dal, she has her sights set on a career in medicine in her own community. 
        
                    
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                            Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Friday, June 9, 2017
            Dal student team prevails at the first-ever global Worlds Challenge Challenge competition, winning $30,000 to help develop their pilot project to provide prosthetic limbs to people in developing countries.
        
                    
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                            Pathology, Medicine, Agriculture, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Friday, June 9, 2017
            Sharon Forward (Faculty of Medicine), Eileen Kaiser (Department of Pathology) and Lugene Young (Manager Health Services, Agricultural Campus) are this year's recipients of AV整氈窒's top honour for service to students.
        
                    
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                            Convocation, News
                    
            
                    Friday, June 9, 2017
            AV整氈窒 awarded honorary degrees to nine exceptional individuals during Spring Convocation 2017. Watch some of the advice they shared with Dal's newest class of graduates.
        
                    
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                            Dal 200, Graduate Studies
                    
            
                    Friday, June 9, 2017
            Toward 200: For 2018, Grad Studies plans to supersize Dals annual Three-Minute Thesis event for grad students, making it bigger and better than ever.
        
                    
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                            Biology, Oceans, Physics and Atmospheric Science, Research, Oceans, Science, Chemistry
                    
            
                    Thursday, June 8, 2017
            A collaboration between Dal materials researchers and a local technology company is set to help scientists collect more accurate data on animal behaviour, movement, physiology and the survival of animals in marine and freshwater environments.
        
                    
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                            Student Life, Computer Science, Informatics
                    
            
                    Thursday, June 8, 2017
            A team of Computer Science students took home first place at the Nova Scotia Sandboxes Introduction to Innovation Bootcamp for their tech-based solution to support individuals suffering from dementia. 
        
                    
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                            Libraries, News
                    
            
                    Thursday, June 8, 2017
            The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) has elected Donna Bourne-Tyson, AV整氈窒s university librarian, as its president for a two year-term.
         
     
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
            