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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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Nick Wright
Friday, December 4, 2015
Students Emily Pelley (Interdisciplinary PhD) and Maike Van Niekerk (Nursing) are both recipients of Young Humanitarian Awards from the Canadian Red Cross.
Matt Semansky
Friday, December 4, 2015
Funded by Movember Canada, Dal’s PROsocial student group focuses on raising awareness of mental health and substance abuse and provides peer support for students grappling with these issues.
Allison Kincade
Friday, December 4, 2015
Dal student startup Sol-Ops was the champion of the first Halifax Smart City App Challenge, put on by Innovacorp and the Dal-hosted ShiftKey Labs sandbox.
Emily Colin
Friday, November 27, 2015
Student Kelly Lucas's exchange experiences inspired her to become Dal's first ambassador for the German Academic Exchange Service.
Paige Black
Friday, November 27, 2015
From her Foundation Year Programme studies at King's to her Economics courses next door at Dal, Sarah Burns's academic journey is about to take her overseas as a prestigious Rhodes Scholar.