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                            Student Life, News, Engineering
                    
            
                    Thursday, July 31, 2014
            This year's Electrical and Computer Engineering Robotics Competition was pirate-themed, with student-built robots hunting lost treasure through an obstacle course.
        
                    
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                            Alumni, Music, Arts and Social Sciences
                    
            
                    Thursday, July 31, 2014
            Recent grad Iain MacNeil thought he'd become a music teacher. Then he discovered opera.
        
                    
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                            Student Services, Multifaith Centre, Human Resources, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Wednesday, July 30, 2014
            With Ramadan coming to a close this week, we chatted with members of Dal's Muslim community about how they celebrate their religion's holy month of fasting.
        
                    
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                            Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Tuesday, July 29, 2014
            Each year dozens of high school students come to campus to unleash their creative potential at Shad Valley's summer program, facilitated by Dal faculty and students.
        
                    
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                            Sports
                    
            
                    Friday, July 25, 2014
            Coming out of high school, Samantha MacDonald faced a tough decision that many young, elite Canadian athletes face: go south of the border to play for a school in the highly competitive and well-known NCAA, or stay home and play in the CIS.
        
                    
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                            Alumni, Management
                    
            
                    Friday, July 25, 2014
            Chris Cowper-Smith, Bob Garrish and Shea Kewin met in a Dal entrepreneurship class, where they developed an advanced knee-bracing solution to help people with knee injuries move comfortably. 
        
                    
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                            Medicine, Health Professions, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Thursday, July 24, 2014
            The African Nova Scotian Health Sciences Summer Day Camp and the Atlantic Aboriginal Junior University are both designed to welcome and encourage underrepresented groups to think about careers in health care.
        
                    
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                            Alumni, History, Arts and Social Sciences
                    
            
                    Wednesday, July 23, 2014
            Stephanie Mark is betting on people's desire to peek inside the closets of fashion's style-makers; so far, her website The Coveteur is proving she has a winning hand
        
                    
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                            Student Life, Student Services, News, Community & Culture, Senior Administration
                    
            
                    Wednesday, July 23, 2014
            The Dal community gathered to bid a fond farewell to the vice-president Student Services, who is retiring this summer.
        
                    
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                            Research, Biology, Science
                    
            
                    Tuesday, July 22, 2014
            Swallow populations across North America are experiencing incredible declines and Dal students are attempting to figure out why.