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June 2022

Staff  –  Student Life, Convocation, News
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Eight exceptional individuals received honorary degrees during Dalhousie's Spring Convocation 2022. Hear some of the advice they shared with Dal's newest graduating class.
Mary-Eleanor Power  –  Continuing Education, News
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Dalā€™s Faculty of Open Learning & Career Development led the development of DalOpen, which offers anyone an opportunity to take select courses at the university fully online without applying to a program.
Alison Auld  –  Research, News, Community & Culture
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
A team at pilipiliĀž»­ looked into the issue and found that many Asian Canadians experienced outright racism or felt unsafe and unsettled during the pandemic because of the unexpected and unpredictable nature of discrimination.
Stephanie Rogers  –  Agriculture, News
Monday, June 13, 2022
Four years after a fire destroyed the Ag Campus's Cox Institute, the university officially celebrated the academic facility's rebirth.
Mark Campbell  –  Alumni
Friday, June 10, 2022
An architect. A survivorā€™s advocate. A chief. A health-care provider. A judge. The 2022 Aurum Award winners are all these things and so much more.
Theresa Anne Salah  –  News, Engineering
Friday, June 10, 2022
Students in Dalā€™s Faculty of Engineering are building the universityā€™s first electric-powered competition car with support from energy company Emera.
Stephanie Rogers  –  Agriculture, News
Friday, June 10, 2022
Starting this fall, incoming Faculty of Science students now have the option to complete their first year of studies in Truro ā€” an academic path for students who prefer to ease into academic life in a small town on a smaller campus.
Stefanie Wilson  –  News
Thursday, June 9, 2022
Dal continues to rank among the top universities in the world according to this yearā€™s QS rankings, with strongest scores related to proportion of international faculty and international student ratio.
Becca Rawcliffe  –  Computer Science, Research, Women In Research
Thursday, June 9, 2022
Rita Orji's Persuasive Computing Lab is one of 17 Canadian research labs to receive funding from Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, to further unlock the power of social technologies.
Andrew Riley  –  Research, Psychiatry, Science, Medicine, Psychology, Women In Research
Thursday, June 9, 2022
Clinical psychology and psychiatry researcher Sherry Stewart will lead a new Atlantic Canadian research ā€œnodeā€ dedicated to guiding substance use health policies and practices funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.