Alumni

From Dal Tigers to Team Canada, Dal alum returns to the Olympics

From Dal Tigers to Team Canada, Dal alum returns to the Olympics

Former Tigers hockey forward Mike Evelyn O’Higgins (BEng'19) is in Cortina d’Ampezzo to compete in both two and fourman bobsleigh. He balances a demanding sport with a full-time engineering career and intends to embrace every moment of his second Olympic journey.  Read more.

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Ellie Garry-Jones
Friday, January 23, 2026
The Dal-educated (LLB '87) Canadian lawyer and long-time Amnesty International Canada secretary-general shared six principles for rebuilding universal human rights in a fractured world at an event on campus this week.
Stephanie Rogers
Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Fifty years after graduation, the Faculy of Agriculture's Class of 1975 came together last year to contribute a custom iron arch at the entrance to the Truro Campus's Herb Garden, bringing a long-envisioned beautification project to reality.
Emm Campbell
Thursday, October 3, 2024
There was a time when Maeghan Tavener (BA’19) thought they might have to give up dance and theatre due to chronic illness. They found a way back to their passion and are making space for more disabled artists like them.

Archives - Alumni

Mark Campbell
Friday, October 13, 2017
Get to know the four outstanding individuals who received Dal’s top alumni honours as part of Homecoming festivities: George Elliott Clarke (Lifetime Achievement Award), Susan Keating-Bekkers (A. Gordon Archibald Award for volunteer service to Dal), Omar Gandhi (Christopher J. Coulter Award for recent graduates) and Loran Morrison (Volunteerism Award).
Naomi Hill
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Homecoming weekend (October 11-15) is one of the most exciting times of year on campus. Learn what this year's suite of activities has in store.
Matt Reeder
Friday, July 28, 2017
Three current and former Dal students have spent the past year and a half developing Let's Sprout, a youth initiative aimed at fostering tomorrow's environmental leaders. Next week, they launch their most ambitious project yet: a weeklong summer camp.
Fallon Bourgeois
Thursday, June 1, 2017
We spoke to several young Dal alumni about their experiences — at and after É«ÃÃÃÃÖ±²¥ — and what advice they'd offer to the more than 4,000 graduates crossing the stage at Convocation this year.
Cheryl Bell
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Omer Malhi left Pakistan in 2012 and began practising as a dentist in St. John's, Newfoundland in 2016. His journey — and arrival — is the happy result of equal measures of planning and serendipity. There were also surprises and lessons to pass on to this year's graduating class.