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Dal Innovation Week welcomes curious minds and big ideas

Dal Innovation Week welcomes curious minds and big ideas

Dal’s Innovation Week returns Sept. 18–25 for its second year with pitch competitions, workshops, campus tours and more on offer for those passionate about exploring new ideas and building fresh connections  Read more.

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Matt Reeder
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Dal rose 17 spots globally and tied for 11th among Canada's top research universities, experiencing gains in top-tier publications and highly cited researchers indicators.
Alison DeLory
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Senator Donald Oliver (LLB'64, LLD'03) built an extraordinary legacy as a lawyer, lifelong advocate for racial equality, and the first Black man in Canada's Senate, inspiring many in the ¼¤ÇéÒÁÈËÂé¶¹¾Ã¾Ã×ÛºÏ community and beyond.
Dawn Morrison
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
From Nova Scotia to New Zealand and beyond, Jonathan Drew’s work reminds that caring for people and caring for the planet are not competing goals — but deeply intertwined imperatives.

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Miles Anderson
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
Hollo Medical co-founder David Hodgson's victory brings added recognition to the startup's key innovation — a unique pocket-size asthma inhaler chamber — and provides a huge boost to the company's goal of making it accessible as quickly as possible.
Ryan McNutt
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
One of Nova Scotia’s most prominent community and business leaders, Rustum Southwell — best known as founding CEO of the renowned Black Business Initiative — is set to take on the mantle of ¼¤ÇéÒÁÈËÂé¶¹¾Ã¾Ã×ÛºÏ's top ceremonial role. For Southwell, it represents another chapter in a legacy of lifting people up to grow, thrive and succeed.
Stefanie Wilson
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
Now ranked at 298 globally, ¼¤ÇéÒÁÈËÂé¶¹¾Ã¾Ã×ÛºÏ maintained twelfth place among Canadian universities and remains the top-ranked university in Atlantic Canada.
Matthew Herder, Steven G. Morgan, Aidan Hollis, Christopher McCabe, Mike Paulden
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
The federal government’s proposed Agile Licensing drug approval regulations mean Canada will have less information about the risks of new medicines, and higher costs.
Alison Auld
Monday, June 26, 2023
More than a dozen solar cars from across Canada and the U.S., including one designed and built by Dal engineering students, face off this week in the Formula Sun Grand Prix in Topeka, Kansas.