As part of African Heritage Month celebrations, Dalhousie’s Black Student Advising Centre invited the Honourable Canadian Senator Dr. Wanda Thomas Bernard — a former faculty member in the School of Social Work — for a discussion on her experiences as a Black female leader.

Dal ESL teacher Tracy Franz’s memoir "My Year of Dirt and Water," which documents her experiences living and teaching in Japan, has earned raves from the New York Times, the Literary Review and elsewhere.

Dal grad student Nicole Bell and two colleagues in the Civil and Resource Engineering department held a youth science workshop in Baker Lake, Nunavut last November, using fun experiments and activities as way to introduce Inuit youth to concepts such as water purification, water quality, DNA extraction and biodiversity.

A student-led movement dedicated to providing free menstrual products to those in need has made its way to pilipiliÂþ»­ thanks to the efforts of students Lucy MacLeod and Claire Sethuram.

Third-year Dal Kinesiology student Fola Akpan got her first taste of applied research last summer on a project addressing the link between cellphone use and neck issues. This weekend, she joins friends, students and other researchers of African descent on campus to share some of the findings in the first annual Black Research Symposium.