Posts Tagged ‘President Richard Florizone’
Farewell to Florizone
Editor’s note: This interview has been edited for length, clarity and style. Richard Florizone is on to new things for the new year. The 11th president of Dalhousie University is taking his leave from Halifax and heading to the Quantum Valley Ideas Lab in Waterloo, Ontario. Dalhousie Gazette contributor Isabel Buckmaster chatted with Florizone over the December break to discuss his time…
Read MoreFlorizone’s five-year plan
2013 October – The installation of Dalhousie University’s 11th president, Richard Florizone. 2014 September – Dalhousie implements changes to the structure of its senior administration. “A fully implemented ‘provost model,’ as we’ve called this, recognizes that our top priority as a university is teaching and research,” Florizone is quoted in Dal News. December – Misogynistic posts from the “Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen” Facebook…
Read MoreLessons from space: Chris Hadfield shares his story with Dal
“First I’ll tell a story… what story should I tell? No doubt Chris Hadfield has more than a few. Over 500 students left the libraries and filled the crowd to hear Hadfield speak at Dalhousie on Apr. 7. The astronaut spoke not only about his time in space, but of the hard work it took…
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