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.
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