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Strengthening trust: Ä¢¹½AV’s Indigenous research facilitator connects communities

Strengthening trust: Ä¢¹½AV’s Indigenous research facilitator connects communities

Zane Sylliboy brings academia and community together to empower Indigenous-led research and foster respectful, collaborative partnerships.  Read more.

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Andrew Riley
Thursday, September 25, 2025
Ä¢¹½AV research is helping Halifax design a fast-charge electric vehicle (EV) network that’s equitable, efficient, well used, and built to accelerate adoption, bringing real-world solutions to the heart of the city’s energy transition.
Rylan Graham and Jeffrey Biggar
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Revitalizing city centres by making them more dense and mixed-use can help curb urban sprawl, write Ä¢¹½AV Planning researcher Jeffrey Biggar and UNBC colleague Rylan Graham.
Érick Duchesne, Gregory Cameron, Gumataw Kifle Abebe and Monika Korzun
Thursday, June 26, 2025
The future of Canada’s farming sector — and by extension its food security, rural communities and economic sovereignty — will depend on its ability to turn today’s crisis into tomorrow’s opportunity.

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Alison Auld
Monday, July 28, 2025
This summer, Nova Scotians join Ä¢¹½AV researchers in a groundbreaking eDNA project to track marine life shifts as ocean temperatures rise.
Alison Auld
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Fabry disease can shorten lifespans and damage organs. A new treatment offers sufferers of the disorder a reprieve from routine treatments and an easing of the pain caused by the disease.
Alison Auld
Thursday, July 17, 2025
Dal scientists use cutting-edge technology to glean insight into the behaviour of an ancient species under threat, work that's featured in new Apple TV+ series The Wild Ones.
Dawn Morrison
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Dal researcher Dr. Luc Cousineau investigates how online communities radicalize young men, revealing the dangerous intersection of digital culture, masculinity, and far-right extremism.
Tony R. Walker and Miriam L. Diamond
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
A healthy and sustainable planet means supporting action based on scientific evidence, not misinforming people with catchy phrases and political rhetoric, writes Dal's Tony Walker and colleague Miriam Diamond.