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Mental health and sport was the topic of focus at the seventh annual Women in Leadership Spotlight Dinner Wednesday night, hosted by Dal's varsity women's basketball and volleyball players.

For Dal Student Affairs, a new name and a new vice-provost represent just the start of a broader shift in university's efforts to better support student success, both inside and outside of the classroom.

Storytelling is at the heart of Nursing prof Brenda Sabo's creative and reflective approach to classroom learning, which earned her Dal's Academic Innovation Award for teaching this year.

This fall Rochelle Owen, director of Dal's Office of Sustainability, has received two prominent community awards: the Divert NS Mobius Hall of Fame award and Efficiency Nova Scotia's Bright Business Award for Leadership.

Growing up, Max Burt and Bryan Duquette had dreams of playing volleyball professionally. They’ve taken slightly different paths to get to where they are today, but now the two athletes' aspirations have become a reality.

Next June, Dal will host the national conference of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) alongside other Halifax universities and colleges. Proposals for the conference are due December 12.

The Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, federal minister of agriculture, was at Dal's Agricultural Campus last Friday for a Facebook Live event focused on connecting with young farmers and youth.

Ngena Bernard's life was cut short just as she was working to better her life by going back to school to study social work. Now, her family is making sure others have that same opportunity through a new bursary in her memory.

Philip Akin, artistic director of Obsidian Theatre (Canada's leading Black theatre company) is working with Dal's Theatre students to present a boldly original take on Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The production runs through December 3 at the Dalhousie Arts Centre.

It was a busy weekend on the road for the Tigers as the hockey and basketball teams were all in action.