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                            Alumni, Arts and Social Sciences, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Thursday, November 12, 2020
            Fountain School of Performing Arts alum Craig Jennex's recent book Out North: An Archive of Queer Activism and Kinship in Canada, which he co-authored with Nisha Eswaran, shares items from the collection of The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives to illustrate the story of LGBTQ2+ politics in Canada.
        
                    
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                            Student Life, Registrar, News
                    
            
                    Tuesday, November 10, 2020
            Dalhousie’s first Virtual Open House took place this past Saturday and though COVID-19 made for a different event than ever before, the new format allowed more attendees than ever to attend, with representation from more than 60 countries. 
        
                    
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                            Agriculture, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Tuesday, November 10, 2020
            No one knows food more than the faculty, staff, students and alumni of the Faculty of Agriculture and Dal's Agricultural Campus — so it only made sense for the Ag community to come together during the pandemic and make a new cookbook, now for sale.
        
                    
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                            News, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Tuesday, November 10, 2020
            This year, as we remember those who fell during wartime, we share the stories of five Dalhousians who served — some of whom gave their lives — in the First World War.
        
                    
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                            News, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Tuesday, November 10, 2020
            Dalhousie alumni Shawna Y. Paris-Hoyte (BA’78, LLB’94, BSW’01, MSW’03) and the Honourable Dr. Donald Oliver (LLB’64, LLD’03) are among the Order of Nova Scotia’s 2020 recipients.
        
                    
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                            Research, Medicine, News
                    
            
                    Monday, November 9, 2020
            Researchers at Dal, the IWK Health Centre and the QEII Health Sciences Centre have received $1.2 million in funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation to advance the development of new COVID-19 vaccines with upgrades to the Canadian Centre for Vaccinology’s level 3 containment facility at the IWK Health Centre.
        
            Danger in the deeps: COVID‑19 spread through wastewater could devastate some marine mammal species
        
        
                    
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                            Research, News, Oceans
                    
            
                    Monday, November 9, 2020
            Certain species of whales, seals and other endangered marine mammals could fall victim to COVID-19 infection through wastewater and sewage that seeps into their marine habitats, researchers at Dalhousie say in a new study that has found some of the animals to be highly susceptible to the virus.
        
                    
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                            Sports
                    
            
                    Friday, November 6, 2020
            Anna Stammberger will be retiring at the end of the 2020-21 season, after a 25-year coaching career. 
        
                    
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                            Student Services
                    
            
                    Friday, November 6, 2020
            Learn about some of the many mental health services being offered to the Dal community this year, including in-person appointments, over-the-phone chats, virtual meetings, and self-led programs.
        
                    
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                            Arts and Social Sciences, Theatre, Music, Community & Culture
                    
            
                    Friday, November 6, 2020
            In our fifth and final profile highlighting Dal's five Reimagine NS reports, we get insight from the authors of the Create and Commemorate report about how the creative and performing arts have a role to play in healing the harms of 2020.