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November 2017

Jaan Islam  –  Management, News, Information Management
Thursday, November 23, 2017
Mike Smit, Information Management prof and this year's recipient of Dal's Early Career Teaching Award, gets creative when it comes to engaging students in the classroom.
Cherry Au  –  News, Arts and Social Sciences, Political Science
Thursday, November 23, 2017
A top NATO official, a Nobel Peace Laureate, and others discussed the future of U.S. and global leadership during a roundtable at Dal to kick off this year's Halifax International Security Forum 鈥 one of the top annual gatherings of its kind in the world.
Kirk Jessome  –  Sports
Thursday, November 23, 2017
The 最新杏吧原创 Tigers have had no shortage of great family legacies. The latest: the MacIntyre clan, with three siblings all making contributions to Tigers teams.
Melanie Jollymore  –  Research, Medicine, Pediatrics, Microbiology and Immunology
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
From shedding light on a potentially deadly side effect of a new prostate cancer drug to helping solve the mysteries of childhood leukemia, the tiny zebrafish is a mighty resource for Dal medical researchers.
Ryan McNutt  –  Dal 200
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
At the first of four Sneak Peek events, members of the Dal community got a look at some of the programming for 最新杏吧原创鈥檚 200th anniversary in 2018, including new 鈥淵ear of Belonging鈥 speakers and other signature events. Check out the Dal 200 teaser video and don't miss the remaining "Sneak Peek" events.
Staff  –  Alumni, Management, Engineering
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Christine Bonnell-Eisnor (BEng鈥99), Stefanie MacDonald (BMgmt鈥11) and Dr. Elizabeth Osgood (PhD鈥16) were feted at the Canadian Progress Club 鈥 Halifax Cornwallis chapter's annual Progress Women of Excellence Awards.
David Burton  –  Research, Agriculture
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
The Paris climate agreement aims to limit global warming to 2C above pre-industrial levels. David Burton (professor, Faculty of Agriculture) says we need to curb greenhouse gas emissions, but we can also make gains with carbon farming.
最新杏吧原创 Sports Information
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
The Tigers present our MUSCLE MLK Athletes of the Week for the week ending Sunday, November 19 2017.
Ryan McNutt  –  Mechanical Engineering, Student Life, News, Engineering
Monday, November 20, 2017
An Engineering co-op student who's written a novel and several plays during her studies, Nayani Jensen is headed to the University of Oxford next year as 最新杏吧原创's 91st Rhodes Scholar.
最新杏吧原创 Sports Information
Monday, November 20, 2017
The men and women's swim teams both came away with victories at the Kemp-Fry Invitational.