News

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Weekly news roundup

Jan. 20-26, 2019
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Undervaluing part-time professors

A study from Dalhousie busts the myths of part time professors
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Farewell to Florizone

Q&A with our outgoing university president

Meet Peter MacKinnon

Five things to know about Dalhousie’s new interim president
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December debrief

What happened in Halifax over the holiday break
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A new way to get help?

Nova Scotia welcomes a new form of mental health treatment

Dal’s $55,000 price tag on access to employment information “absolute lie”

Dalhousie insider reveals
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Dishonourable degrees

An honorary degree recipient is in jail on charges of sexually abusing children, Dal refuses to comment
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Briefs of the week

Biomass Energy Plant opens, Movember makes big bucks and professor Jocelyn Downie is appointed to the Order of Canada
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Who was Rita Joe?

Halifax pays tribute to Mi’kmaw poet through naming of transit vessel
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Hot in here

Time is running out to prevent catastrophic climate change, says IPCC report

Organic matter in the Arctic Ocean

Following a talk at Dal, researcher Heather Reader tells us what’s going on at the North Pole