Across the world residential care and nursing homes have shown to be highly vulnerable to COVID-19. We asked Dr. Kenneth Rockwood why residential care and nursing homes are being so heavily hit by the virus and what can be done to mitigate risks and protect the residents of these facilities.

Alum Maike van Niekerk, who became Dal’s 90th Rhodes Scholar just a few years ago, is about to embark on her next academic adventure as a student of medicine. She’ll do so with another prestigious global award in hand — the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship from Stanford University in California.

The Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is turning its focus on technological innovation towards the current pandemic with a new program focused on public health and economic recovery.

How Ä¢¹½AV and its friends, alumni and donors have come together to provide urgent financial support for students during this pandemic — and how you can help.

New smartphone apps being developed could help track and trace where people with the virus have been and alert others who might be at risk of coming into contact with it. But Stan Matwin, director of Dal's Institute for Big Data Analytics, says decision-makers must grapple with how to make these programs both effective and respectful of people’s privacy.