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• Recognizing the minds behind the momentum: Dal’s 2025 research awards
  Dalhousie honours research excellence across disciplines — from sleep science to ocean sustainability, digital health to decolonized data.
  
• Citizen scientists help monitor coastal ecosystems in new Dalhousie project
  This summer, Nova Scotians join Dalhousie researchers in a groundbreaking eDNA project to track marine life shifts as ocean temperatures rise.
  
• Messages from the millennium: Dal medical school unseals time capsule from 2000
  A forgotten time capsule from Dalhousie Medicine’s Class of 2000 resurfaces, bridging generations with heartfelt messages and vintage memorabilia.
  
• Six accomplished individuals honoured as notable Dal alumni
  Dalhousie’s notable alumni are recognized for leadership and impact across fields. In June 2025, six distinguished individuals were added, including pioneers in planning, medicine, arts, law, sports and public service.
  

• Grad profile: Making sense of identity
  Uihyeok Jung, a Korean immigrant to Canada, overcame language barriers, embraced his cultural identity, and pursued sociology and history, culminating in award-winning research on Korean emotion and social movements.
  
• A milestone moment: Dal celebrates first graduates of groundbreaking Black and African Diaspora Studies major
  This spring, Dalhousie marks a historic milestone as the first graduates of its Black and African Diaspora Studies major cross the Convocation stage. Meet James Dixon and Portia Wright.
  
• Grad profile: A political awakening abroad
  Meaghan De Adder’s global adventure sparked a powerful political awakening — from Halifax roots to Seoul streets — and a thesis that challenges injustice towards women.
  
• Grad Profile: From criminology to the Berlin opera
  Sophia Maskine made what she described as a risky decision going back to school for music. But now she’s headed to Berlin, taking on a role with the Berlin Opera Academy and eager to immerse herself in the rich opera culture.
  
• Grad profile: Around the world and back
  Liam Oko remembers sneaking into the Bauer Theater in Antigonish to watch his mom’s rehearsals. Now, with his BA in Theatre, he’ll be on stage himself this summer.
  
• Fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is worsening gender‑based violence against women
  As violence continues to displace people in the eastern DRC, women face a heightened risk of sexual and gender-based violence.