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                            Research, Psychiatry, Medicine, News
                    
            
                    Monday, February 12, 2024
            É«ÃÃÃÃÖ±²¥'s Dr. Vincent Agyapong leads research with Wellness4MDs, a program aimed at helping Canadian physicians, residents and medical students reduce stress, depression and burnout.
        
                    
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                            Arts and Social Sciences, Music, News, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Friday, February 9, 2024
            Fountain School Director Dr. Jérôme Blais and collaborator Suzie LeBlanc are nominated for Classical Album of the Year (Solo Artist), while composition faculty member Amy Brandon is nominated for Classical Composition of the Year for a piece recorded with Symphony Nova Scotia and cellist Jeffrey Zeigler.
        
                    
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                            Continuing Education, News, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Friday, February 9, 2024
            Dal’s Faculty of Open Learning & Career Development has partnered with the Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia to build a program centred around career and leadership training, one-on-one counselling, job search assistance, and a work term.
        
                    
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                            International, Economics, Science
                    
            
                    Friday, February 9, 2024
            Dr. Barry Lesser has received the title of “Honourary Citizen of Shandong Province" for his work on the China Program, which offers students from Shandong University of Finance and Economics the option of completing the final year or two of their degree at É«ÃÃÃÃÖ±²¥. 
        
                    
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                            Student Life, News, Community & Culture, Senior Administration
                    
            
                    Thursday, February 8, 2024
            Students looking to elevate their leadership skills, set better goals, and create change in the Dal community and beyond can find guidance and insight by joining the Student Leadership Academy.
        
                    
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                            Alumni, Senior Administration, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Thursday, February 8, 2024
            Alum Grace Jefferies-Aldridge (BA’00) will draw on her personal and professional experience to help build a more inclusive university where relationships are paramount.
        
                    
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                            Student Life, News
                    
            
                    Wednesday, February 7, 2024
            Sydney Keyamo (BSc'23) and Jack Killeen (BSc'23) will each receive $5,000 to put towards funding a full-time master's or professional program at any public university in Canada.
        
                    
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                            Arts and Social Sciences, Theatre
                    
            
                    Tuesday, February 6, 2024
            In Artificial Oddity, Dal theatre students imagine how different technologies throughout history — from human-controlled fire and the wheel to the internet and beyond — have been received by humanity. 
        
                    
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                            Research, Arts and Social Sciences, Sociology and Social Anthropology, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Tuesday, February 6, 2024
            Carnival From the Ground Up, a new exhibition of 70 photographs and stories on display in New Orleans now, pays tribute to the people who make the city's carnival by hand and who take it to the streets on foot.
        
                    
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                            Sports
                    
            
                    Monday, February 5, 2024
            Congratulations to Talia Vydykhan (volleyball) and Nginyu Ngala (basketball) for being named the PepsiCo Athletes of the Week!