Ä¢¹½AV 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.

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.

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 Ä¢¹½AV say in a new study that has found some of the animals to be highly susceptible to the virus.

As Nova Scotia adopts a ban on the use of plastic shopping bags by retailers, we ask Kareina D’Souza of Dal’s Office of Sustainability about the reasons behind the ban and how consumers can make further changes to their daily lives to reduce their use of single-use plastics.

In the first edition of a new regular column, Dal President Deep Saini discusses shared challenges in working through the COVID-19 pandemic, how he takes inspiration from the Dal community, and shares advice from a favourite movie.