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Award‑winning student essay asks what fractures community — and why showing up can help build it

Award‑winning student essay asks what fractures community — and why showing up can help build it

Mia Mackenzie, a Master of Social Work student, earned top honours in Dal’s Glovin Award for an essay urging people to resist division by showing up and staying accountable to community.  Read more.

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Farrah Smith
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Psychology student and varsity basketball player Melina Collins is this year's recipient of the Dr. Anne Marie Ryan Community Growth Award, recognized for her work bringing athletes and young learners together through a literacy mentorship program.
Matt Reeder
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
As exams and deadlines converge, the Killam and other campus libraries become places of problem‑solving, empathy, and practical help, highlighting how support services carry students through critical academic moments.
Kenneth Conrad, Graeme Gunn, Kate Rogers, Tanis Trainor
Thursday, March 26, 2026
This year’s Dal Board of Governors winners show how purposeful action creates lasting change. Get to know more now about how they are doing so.

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Cheryl Bell
Friday, August 26, 2016
Abdulrahman Alkahmees (BSc ’10, DDS ’14) talks about his experience returning to Dal from his native Kuwait this fall to continue graduate studies in Dentistry.
Ryan McNutt
Friday, August 26, 2016
More than 30 Syrian newcomers to Halifax took part in a five-day programming camp hosted by Dal students, in which they learned website development skills and explored opportunities in computer science.
Emily Holland
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Dal's Coastal Studio program allows Architecture students like Sarah Dede and Josh Nieves to develop and build unique community projects for farmers' markets, national parks and more.
Ryan McNutt
Thursday, July 28, 2016
Last week, Dal's third-year Electrical Engineering students took part in their annual robotics competition, the culmination of weeks of hands-on coursework building a robot to autonomously complete a simple-yet-challenging maze.
Staff
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Lindsey Gillard, Aquaculture master's student in Dal's Faculty of Agriculture, offers thoughts on the meaning and importance of Pride to help celebrate Dal's first Pride Week.