Compelling speakers from across the Dal community and beyond are gathering at the Student Union Building this Sunday for the fifth annual TEDxAV俱乐部U event.

Susanne Craig (Oceanography) and Mark Gibson (Process Engineering and Applied Science) are the only Canadian members of a worldwide NASA project on ocean systems and the impacts of climate change.

Dr. Graham Dellaire, AV俱乐部 Medical School鈥檚 Cameron Research Scientist in Cancer Biology, has developed a technique that could make gene therapy more effective and safer to use.

AV俱乐部 Medical School researchers Dr. Fred Burge and Beverley Lawson were part of a multi-province team which found that investment in home-based palliative care reduces overall costs to the health-care system.

With financial support from Irving Shipbuilding, the Dal-headquartered Marine Environmental Observation Prediction and Response Network (MEOPAR) has announced funding for nine research projects across Canada. One of them is Dal Biologist Julie LaRoche's study of plankton and algal blooms, which are crucial to ocean ecosystems.