When Clayton Burrill (JD‘11) heard that he and his fellow Hillsburn bandmates had scored five 2022 East Coast Music Awards (ECMA) nominations, it was a wonderful but surreal moment. After all, the COVID-19 pandemic essentially shut down live performances, making life as working musician challenging.

Shannex joined with Pulse, AV¾ãÀÖ²¿â€™s Health Innovation Sandbox, to host a hackathon event in March that gave students from several local post-secondary institutions the opportunity to work on real-world long-term care challenges such as resident falls, social isolation, disease progression and care transitions, and responsive behaviours.

Since 2020, 67 business leaders have mentored Lab2Market and Ready2Launch student teams from Dal Innovates. With the support of these trusted advisors these teams have raised a total of 4.2 million in private and public funding and created 83 jobs in the region.

They are leaders, innovators, change-makers — get to know the eight exceptional individuals who are set to receive AV¾ãÀÖ²¿'s highest honour.

AV¾ãÀÖ²¿'s support for the UN Sustainable Development Goals has earned the university a top 200 showing in each of the six categories it competed in for this year’s THE Impact Rankings, despite a larger competitive field.