Renowned leaders in sustainability from the worlds of education, entertainment, politics and business, will discuss the steps needed to become a sustainable society during Dialogue for Change, a lively on-stage discussion Thursday, March 19, at 7:00 p.m. in the Ondaatje Hall, McCain Building at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
An Al Gore presidency would have acted on Iraq the same way the Bush administration did, says Dalhousie University professor Frank Harvey.
Leatherback turtles, the most widely distributed reptiles on Earth, are threatened with extinction themselves, in large part due to the carelessness of humans. A Dalhousie University professor addresses the threat of plastics to this endangered species.
Two Dalhousie University professors examine the impact of the new Watchmen movie.
The Dalhousie-Headquartered Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) has reached a major milestone with the deployment of its first international tracking line, draped off the coast of Perth, Australia.
Michael Ungar, a social worker, family therapist and professor with Dalhousie University's School of Social Work, discusses "we thinkers." In his new book We Generation (McClelland & Stewart), he says we-thinkers can help their parents' generation "rethink some of our own me-thinking ways."
Women terrorists are not a new development"”groups like Chechnya's Black Widows and Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers have gained notoriety before"”but according to Anita Singh, they represent a misunderstood phenomenon she hopes to clarify.
A group of Dalhousie University mechanical engineering students have built the ultimate fuel-efficient car.
Motion capture technology has advanced dramatically in the past decade, to the point where digital characters in film and gaming are approaching photo-realism. But a Dalhousie University researcher, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, sees the technology's potential for more than just entertainment. The psychologist is using motion capture to help better understand sign language and other forms of gesture-based communication.
Dalhousie University is celebrating the recent launch of the NSERC Canadian Healthy Oceans Network (CHONe). CHONe will bring together Canada's marine science capacities and provide a baseline of information against which future changes in the oceans can be monitored and understood.
Graduate student Erica Corbett believes measures to prevent the transmission of HIV from mother to child offer a ray of hope against a disease that has ravaged a continent.
A Dalhousie University student is researching the role rum played in Atlantic Canada in the 17-and 1800's.
Kevin James has received the Canadian Architect Award of Excellence, given to architects and architectural graduates for buildings in the design stage, for his design "Seeking Specificity in the Universal: A Memorial for Japanese Canadians Interned During the Second World War." The Toronto native graduated from Dalhousie University in May 2008 with a Master of Architecture degree.
With climate change is a global concern, it's timely to consider how trees are faring on the highest mountain slopes and at the northern treeline. In such extreme environments, oddly contorted forms of pine, spruce, birch and fir are created by blasting winds and inhospitable soils.
Each year, shoveling and snow-blower injuries result in more than 100,000 serious emergency room visits in North America. Dalhousie University experts suggest, "don't rush the job and pick the right shovel."
Dalhousie University has launched a new academic program - Environment, Sustainability and Society, offered through the equally new College of Sustainability. It is first program (and college) of its kind in Canada and is the most significant and far-reaching change to the way Dalhousie educates its students in recent memory. This foreshadows the way in which the environment and sustainability will factor into post secondary education the world over.
This week Dalhousie University will pioneer a new way of teaching for a new generation of leaders as it launches the country's first environment, sustainability, and society program. It is the first program of its kind in Canada and among the first in North America.
Ocean research has been thrust into fast-forward with the Platform for Ocean Knowledge Management (POKM). The network enables scientists to piece together research from institutions across the globe to better understand issues from coastal flooding to marine animal behaviour.
While Wonder Woman may be regarded as a feminist icon, that image isn't upheld in the comic books through all seven decades of her existence, says a Dalhousie University researcher.
A researcher at Dalhousie University is developing an ultrasound device so small, it could travel through the eardrum, onwards through the middle ear and then rest against the inner ear. The device will be able to detect scarring from implants in the middle ear, or detect the effects of diseases like Meniere's.
There's been a fair bit of study on people who are addicted, but what about the people who love and care for the addicted? A Dalhousie researcher is finding out.
Dalhousie Medical School researchers have discovered that embryonic stem cells may play a critical role in helping people with nerve damage and motor neuron diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), regain muscular strength.
Researchers from Cambridge and Dalhousie universities discovered spittlebugs leap more than 70 centimetres in a single bound. This amounts to 100 body-lengths, out-distancing its closest rival, the flea.
A new study by Dalhousie researchers suggests psychopaths are deeply attuned to vulnerable people.
A Dalhousie University math professor solves the mystery behind the opening chord to The Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night" using mathematical principles like the Fourier transform.
A Dalhousie University autism expert notes that despite the lack of credible scientific evidence establishing a connection between vaccines and autism, debate continues. Is there a link or is it simply a case of celebrities and the on-line world turning speculation into something more?
Dalhousie University in Halifax Nova Scotia has been twice recognized for its efforts to create a greener, more sustainable campus.
Maritime Canadians suffering from psychoses were offered new hope today as Dalhousie University installed Dr. Philip Tibbo as the Dr. Paul Janssen Chair in Psychotic Disorders.
Dalhousie University is launching a new academic course studying comics and cartoons.
Canada's first Corporate Residency MBA is set to launch in 2009. The Dalhousie University program will allow 50 of Canada's best and brightest young people to gain real world work experience through an eight-month paid internship with North America's top employers.
An innovative film project out of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia is giving homeless youth the tools and the knowledge to tell their own stories about life on the street. For the past three months, a small group of five street kids"”together with youth worker Darcy Harvey, a Dalhousie social work grad, and filmmaker Bryan Hofbauer, who has produced such films as 3 Needles and The Event"”have been meeting three days a week in an empty storefront. The participants have learned such skills as camera work, storyboarding, how to develop characters, script writing, editing and composing.
For years scientists have struggled to understand the decline of Atlantic salmon and what happens to them once they reach the ocean. The Ocean Tracking Network, headquartered at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has made a breakthrough discovery, learning where they go.
Children with epilepsy in Canada's Maritimes will benefit from the appointment of Dr. Michael Esser to Dalhousie University's William Dennis Chair in Pediatric Epilepsy Research.
A new study funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) being conducted by researchers from UNB, Dalhousie, UPEI and CBU is looking at the effects of intimate partner violence on small infants and their mothers, focusing on the interaction between them.
Dalhousie PhD student Jeff Barrell and Professor Jon Grant outfitted a blimp-shaped helium balloon with expensive photography equipment and sent it soaring a few hundred metres in the air to acquire much-needed aerial photography of eelgrass meadows in Atlantic coastal areas.
A Dalhousie PhD student in experimental psychology says hands-free cellphones are not safer and may even be more dangerous than hand-held.
People fall into a pattern. They start out with the best intentions and do well for a little while "¦ but then fall back into old habits. It's a classic health trap: two steps forward, three steps back. People end up feeling bad about themselves. Moreover, the two-steps-forward-three-steps-back dance ends up increasing the health problems the behavioral changes were supposed to address in the first place.
A Dalhousie researcher has found that school-aged children in Canada are 10 times more likely than children in other age groups to die or sustain severe injury in road crashes. Misuse of safety seats and failure to use of booster seats use are primarily responsible for these high rates of automobile deaths and injuries.
There may be only 350 these right whales left in the Atlantic Ocean. Without measures to protect and grow their numbers, they could be extinct by 2020. A Dalhousie PhD candidate is studying the "area to be avoided", an attempt to preserve the right whale's habitat.
Inspired by air-powered car concepts in Europe, Dalhousie mechanical engineering students David Alderson, Scott Allan, David Langille, Michael Roy and Dave Spencer decided to develop a compressed air engine of their own for a year-long research project. They recently unveiled their air-powered go-kart, with the vehicle performing comparatively to electric-powered cars.
Marine scientists from around the world will be homing in on Halifax, Nova Scotia next week when they converge on Dalhousie University for the First Annual Ocean Tracking Network Conference June 4 to June 6.
As Indiana Jones' fourth adventure hits to the big screen, an international team of archaeologists, anthropologists, museum specialists, ethicists and lawyers is pondering these ethical and legal issues. Their focus on cultural heritage has a particular emphasis on the archaeological record.
A Dalhousie University professor who has been researching cancer-fighting agents from natural sources has been named to the Atlantic Region's first endowed chair for breast cancer research.
Dalhousie professor emerita Barbara Keddy discusses theories of causes and types of treatments for fibromyalgia.
The sexualization of tween girls"”dubbed "The Lolita Effect" "”is part of a larger, marketing effort to create cradle-to-grave consumers. In an article published in Dalhousie University's Nabokov Online Journal Miley Cyrus is held up as the possible latest example.
Dr. Patrick Lee has championed the development of the naturally occurring "reovirus" as a potential treatment for cancer. Reovirus, like all viruses, self-propagates and multiplies when it attaches itself to a host cell. With ordinary viruses, they can cause sickness due to infection. Reovirus, though, kills cancerous host cells and leaves healthy cells alone.
Dr. Dean Irvine is marshalling forces to change perceptions about Canadian literature. He's leading a major, multi-million-dollar research project comprising 32 researchers from universities across Canada, in the United States, the U.K. and France to re-invigorate interest in Canlit's earlier generations.
Recent work by Dalhousie Neuroscience Professor Dr. Gautam Awatramani to restore visual function during retinal degenerative diseases, resulting in complete loss of photoreceptors that enable vision, has created hope that retinal diseases leading to blindness may one day be reversed.
How can we tell who's lying, who's not? New research out of Stephen Porter's Forensic Psychology Lab at Dalhousie University determines the face will betray the deceiver's true emotion, but not in the stereotypical ways we think.
The moment that Professor David McNeil's father lost the Stanley Cup in 1951 is frozen in time by a famous photo. It was a highly charged face-to-face encounter during overtime. Gerry McNeil was the goalie for the Montreal Canadiens during the 1950-51 season.
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