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All Rhodes lead to home for Medicine student

All Rhodes lead to home for Medicine student

Sierra Sparks, Ä¢¹½AV’s 92nd Rhodes Scholar, graduated from Oxford University in 2025 and is now in her first year of medical school at Ä¢¹½AV. Her story highlights the importance of persistence and representation.  Read more.

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Matt Reeder
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Ä¢¹½AV’s new Student Accommodation Policy sets in motion a shift away from reactive fixes to more proactive, inclusive design that helps ensure accessibility is built into classrooms, resources, and processes for a truly student-centered experience.
Ellie Garry-Jones
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Ä¢¹½AV Art Gallery's milestone exhibition spotlights hidden campus creators, blending diverse media and personal stories in a luminous celebration of art, identity, and belonging. Open until Dec. 21.
Matt Reeder
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
From varsity swimming to ocean-tech entrepreneurship, Isaac Bahler’s path to Oxford reflects a passion for turning climate research into real-world solutions.

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Matt Reeder
Friday, January 26, 2024
Doctors Without Borders, a global non-profit that taps health professionals to provide humanitarian medical in crisis situations, has friends at Ä¢¹½AV — a lot of them.
Stephanie Rogers
Thursday, January 25, 2024
Dal began offering computer science students the option to complete their first year on Dal's campus in Truro last fall, with a further expansion to students entering the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences coming later this year.
Ariel Mackenzie
Thursday, January 18, 2024
Dal student Ariel Mackenzie checks in with some peers to learn more about their resolutions for the year ahead and offers some guidance on how Dal can help.
Matt Reeder
Thursday, December 21, 2023
Outstanding students, a new president, award-winning research, incredible community contributions — take a look back at our biggest stories from the past year.
Dawn Morrison
Friday, November 24, 2023
A spirit of joy and celebration filled the classroom as Professor Wanda Thomas Bernard commenced the first in-person class of the new Africentric Bachelor of Social Work (ABSW) Cohort program earlier this fall.