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                            Sports
                    
            
                    Monday, January 21, 2019
            There was lots of home and away action this past weekend for the Tigers.
        
                    
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                            Research, Medicine
                    
            
                    Friday, January 18, 2019
            A Dal PhD student is the lead author of a vital new study finding that frailty, more so than amyloid plaques and tangles in the brain, is a key risk factor for developing Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.
        
                    
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                            Research, Health Professions
                    
            
                    Friday, January 18, 2019
            Niki Kiepek, an assistant professor in Dal’s School of Occupational Therapy, says January is a good time to consider re-evaluating your relationship with alcohol.
        
                    
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                            Research, Physics and Atmospheric Science, Science
                    
            
                    Friday, January 18, 2019
            Dalhousie, Metamaterial Technologies Inc. and Mitacs are teaming up to bring together new researchers and inventors in metamaterials science — an emerging field of study that seeks to manipulate light in ways never before achieved.
        
                    
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                            International, News, Arts and Social Sciences
                    
            
                    Friday, January 18, 2019
            Lt. General (Ret’d) Roméo Dallaire and Shelly Whitman, executive director of the Dal-based Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative, had a private audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican Thursday morning to discuss the initative's global mission to end the recruitment and use of child soldiers.
        
                    
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                            Sports, MBA, Management
                    
            
                    Thursday, January 17, 2019
            As a Top 8 Academic All-Canadian this year, Sven Stammberger is one of the top student-athletes in Canada. The basketball player's story is one of grit, resilience and success on and off the court.
        
                    
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                            Sports, Science
                    
            
                    Thursday, January 17, 2019
            For student-athletes like swimmer Isabel Sarty, having academic mentors and advocates in their corner makes all the difference in the world.
        
                    
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                            News, Senior Administration
                    
            
                    Thursday, January 17, 2019
            Peter MacKinnon, set to lead the university into the first months of its third century, sits down with Dal News for a discussion about his time as a Dalhousie student, his views on his new role and what he envisions for his interim presidency.
        
                    
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                            Research, News
                    
            
                    Wednesday, January 16, 2019
            Dr. Scott Halperin, a Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Dalhousie and Director of the Canadian Center for Vaccinology, provides insight into the reasons for the high number of flu cases this season
        
                    
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                            Student Life, Research, Science, News, Graduate Studies
                    
            
                    Wednesday, January 16, 2019
            Registration is now open for Dal's annual competition of brains and brevity. Learn more about the 3 Minute Thesis event and hear from last year's winner on her strategies for success.