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                            Agriculture, Convocation
                    
            
                    Friday, May 22, 2020
            Agriculture is in Julia Vosman鈥檚 blood. Growing up on a dairy farm with three older brothers and a lifelong involvement in 4-H, she knew she was bound for the Agricultural Campus.
        
            Grad Profile: Med School valedictorian reflects on L.A. filmmaking past and a new future in medicine
        
        
                    
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                            Medicine, Convocation
                    
            
                    Thursday, May 21, 2020
            As a young filmmaker in Los Angeles, David Hung had the chance to work with showbiz superstars such as Kanye West, Travis Scott and Kylie Jenner. But a pull to practise medicine beckoned him back home to Halifax and Dal Medical School.
        
                    
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                            Computer Science, Convocation
                    
            
                    Thursday, May 21, 2020
            As Nick Meade graduates from Dal's Bachelor of Computer Science program, his varied experience has helped him land a spot in one of Canada鈥檚 most prestigious artificial intelligence (AI) research institutes.
        
                    
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                            Law, Convocation
                    
            
                    Wednesday, May 20, 2020
            Inspired by his father's experience as a Schulich School of Law grad, Duan Ash followed suit, joining the Dal community through the Indigenous Blacks & Mi'kmaq (IB&M) initiative.
        
                    
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                            Agriculture, Convocation
                    
            
                    Wednesday, May 20, 2020
            It鈥檚 always the right time to pursue a dream. Just ask 66-year-old graduate Wendy McKay, who will be recieving her Bachelor of Technology degree in Small Business Management from Dal's Faculty of Agriculture.
        
                    
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                            Alumni, Health Professions, Nursing
                    
            
                    Wednesday, May 20, 2020
             Dal Nursing alum and registered nurse (RN) Pauline Surkan (BScN 鈥17) has been working for several weeks at provincial COVID-19 assessment centres including the recently opened drive-thru centres in Dartmouth, N.S.
        
                    
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                            Research, Medicine, News
                    
            
                    Tuesday, May 19, 2020
            The first Canadian clinical trials for a potential COVID-19 vaccine will be led by researchers at 91探花平台, with testing set to begin as early as the next few weeks.
        
                    
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                            Research, Earth Sciences, Science
                    
            
                    Friday, May 15, 2020
            Dal Science researcher Vittorio Maselli led a multi-institution team to discover a previously unknown tsunami hazard in East Africa. 
        
                    
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                            News
                    
            
                    Friday, May 15, 2020
            Across the world residential care and nursing homes have shown to be highly vulnerable to COVID-19. We asked Dr. Kenneth Rockwood why residential care and nursing homes are being so heavily hit by the virus and what can be done to mitigate risks and protect the residents of these facilities.
        
                    
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                            Research, Oceans, Biology, Science, Oceans
                    
            
                    Thursday, May 14, 2020
            Marine species are projected to decline in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans yet increase in Arctic waters 鈥 this, according to climate change scenarios created by Dalhousie researchers using state-of-the-art modelling.