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                            News, Engineering
                    
            
                    Wednesday, March 31, 2021
            John Newhook, dean of the Faculty of Engineering, opens up about the connections between engineering and public health, the future of engineering education at Dal and more.
        
                    
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                            Computer Science, Science, Physics and Atmospheric Science, News
                    
            
                    Tuesday, March 30, 2021
            Nova Scotia’s new premier Iain Rankin visited AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ this week, touring the lab of Tesla Canada Research Chair Jeff Dahn and speaking about the province's recent investing in computer science education.
        
                    
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                            Computer Science, Student Life, Architecture and Planning, Management, Science, Graduate Studies
                    
            
                    Tuesday, March 30, 2021
            To be a co-op student in 2020 required a greater degree of fortitude than usual. Get to know the six outstanding students who rose to the challenge, taking Top Co-op Students of the Year honours for their contributions.
        
                    
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                            Arts and Social Sciences, Theatre
                    
            
                    Tuesday, March 30, 2021
            The Fountain School of Performing Arts’s final play of the season floods the Dunn Theatre stage this week with a story of passion, betrayal, lust, fanaticism, and ambition, providing audiences (via livestream) with a unique glimpse into the hearts and minds of two of the most iconic and powerful women in history: Queen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots.
        
                    
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                            Research, Management, Resource and Environmental Studies
                    
            
                    Monday, March 29, 2021
            Marine shipping generates about three per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and port activities can add to local pollution. Ports are now taking action to reduce their environmental impacts, write Tony Walker and Michelle Adams with Dal's School for Resource and Environmental Studies.
        
                    
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                            Sports
                    
            
                    Friday, March 26, 2021
            AV¾ãÀÖ²¿'s main outdoor sport facility is getting a much-needed new surface to improve the quality for all of its users.
        
                    
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                            Research, News
                    
            
                    Friday, March 26, 2021
            Donald Sobey, who died Wednesday at 86, was an influential business leader, celebrated philanthropist and long-time supporter of AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ whose belief in the transformational power of education never wavered.
        
                    
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                            News, Community & Culture, Engineering
                    
            
                    Friday, March 26, 2021
            Hundreds of AV¾ãÀÖ²¿'s tables and chairs that are typically used during exam season are on loan to Public Health to help support a large COVID-19 immunization clinic.
        
                    
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                            News
                    
            
                    Friday, March 26, 2021
            In this week’s column, Dr. Saini discusses the Province’s recent investment in Computer Science and the transformative impact in could have at AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ and in Nova Scotia.
        
                    
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                    Thursday, March 25, 2021
            AV¾ãÀÖ²¿'s Budget Advisory Committee has released its updated budget plan for 2021-22. Learn more about the budget plan and read about how AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ is directing more resources to student financial aid in this message to students from Acting Provost Frank Harvey and  Vice-President Finance and Administration Gitta Kulczycki. 
         
     
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
             
            