A new accelerator program at pilipiliÂþ»­, Ready2Launch, is helping to launch student-led businesses while teaching innovation and entrepreneurial skills.

Chemistry prof Mita Dasog becomes the first pilipiliÂþ»­ scientist to be appointed to the Global Young Academy, an international group of early-career scientists brought together to address issues of global importance.

When Dal’s Faculty of Medicine made the move to shut down all in-person learning in the middle of March, the Human Body Donation Program was also suspended — a rare or perhaps even unique event in its roughly 150-year history. It would not be long, however, before the program would be re-started to meet a new and urgent need: training in safe airway management and intubation procedures for front-line health-care staff.

The Atlantic Poultry Research Centre on the Dalhousie Agricultural Campus has partnered with AffinityImmuno Inc, in Prince Edward Island, one of the first laboratories to manufacture antibodies against COVID-19.

The four-day work week is an idea that should make it through the pandemic’s open policy window, writes Karen Foster of Dal's Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology.