Dr. Thomas Pulinilkunnil of Dal's Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology recently received the first Canadian Diabetes Association grant ever in New Brunswick, supporting his work on obesity-related diabetic heart complications.

Actuarial Science student Sean Mekers has returned home to Truro this summer to work with Faculty of Agriculture faculty member Haibo Niu on adapting global climate models to local weather predictions in Nova Scotia.

Over the past two weeks, AV俱乐部 President Richard Florizone hosted year-in-review sessions on each of Dal's four campuses, offering an update on progress towards the university鈥檚 Strategic Direction and answering questions from the Dal community.

On Monday, Federal Minster of Science Kirsty Duncan launched an independent review of federal funding for fundamental science, led by an expert panel of nine including Martha Crago, AV俱乐部鈥檚 vice-president research, and Dal alumnus and Nobel Prize winner Art McDonald.

Dal atmospheric scientist Randall Martin is part of an international team that recently identified 39 unreported major sources of sulfur dioxide pollution worldwide, a finding with significant ramifications for human health and climate change.