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                    Thursday, May 25, 2017
            Dr. Geoff Williams, gastroenterologist, has been selected as Doctors Nova Scotia's 2017 Patient Choice Award winner, an honour that recognizes physicians who have created meaningful relationships with their patients and made significant contributions to the health and well-being of their community.
        
                    
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                            Student Life, Management, Community & Culture, Engineering
                    
            
                    Thursday, May 25, 2017
            Business Management student Ben Bright and Engineering grad Vijay Kumar are helping link students with applied work experiences through their new web platform StuGig.
        
                    
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                            Computer Science, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Thursday, May 25, 2017
            The Faculty of Computer Science welcomed 45 girls ages 8-12 and their parents to campus earlier this month as the Halifax chapter of Ladies Learning Code hosted its largest event to date.
        
                    
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                            Law, Oceans, Research, English, Arts and Social Sciences, Oceans, History
                    
            
                    Thursday, May 25, 2017
            As part of a three-day event hosted by the Social Sciences and Humanities Oceans Research and Education network, researchers from across the university came together to discuss some of the economic, ecological, social and cultural ties that have shaped Canada’s interactions with the ocean since Confederation in 1867.
        
                    
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                            Medicine, Student Life, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Wednesday, May 24, 2017
            Dalhousie Medical School’s new Service Learning Program, which just completed its first year, pairs second-year Medicine students with community partners to link classroom learning with real-world impact.
        
                    
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                            Communications and Marketing, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Wednesday, May 24, 2017
            From the Dalhousie Alumni water station to the "Relay to #Dal200" team raising funds for Phoenix Youth Programs, there was a lot of black and gold to be found all over the Scotiabank Blue Nose Marathon this past weekend.
        
                    
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                            Community & Culture, Human Resources
                    
            
                    Friday, May 19, 2017
            Human Resources and the Dalhousie Professional and Managerial Group (DPMG), together with the Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia and the Halifax Partnership, hosted close to 100 recent immigrants on campus this week to help them develop career skills for success in their new home.
        
                    
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                            News, Senior Administration
                    
            
                    Friday, May 19, 2017
            His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, and Tom Jenkins, Chair of the National Research Council of Canada, joined Dal President Richard Florizone for a public fireside chat last weekend to discuss their new book on Canadian innovations.
        
                    
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                            Research, Agriculture, Management
                    
            
                    Friday, May 19, 2017
            A new study from researchers in three Dal faculties finds that women, people with lower incomes and those with a high‑school education are more likely to skip meals, snack more often.
        
                    
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                            Dal 200, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Friday, May 19, 2017
            Toward 200: Dal professor Mona Holmlund is authoring a commemorative pictorial history book for Dal's 200th anniversary in 2018.