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- Where experience meets impact: Introducing Dalhousie’s 2023 Top Co‑op Students of the Year
- Big research, little time: Medical neuroscience student wins 3 Minute Thesis finals
- Who owns the glass slipper? Weldon moot pits Cinderella against Prince Charming in royal divorce battle
- ‘I finally got the guts’: Award‑winning journalist Anna Maria Tremonti opens up about living with abuse
- The Fountain School’s latest stage production asks big questions
FASS in Dal News
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‘I finally got the guts’: Award‑winning journalist Anna Maria Tremonti opens up about living with abuse
In this year's Shaar Shalom Lecture, the former CBC reporter and host detailed the abuse she endured during her first marriage and eloquently unbraided the threads of "shame, blame, and pain" she carried with her for more than 40 years.
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The Fountain School’s latest stage production asks big questions
The ancient characters in Dal alum Sophie Jacome's play Euripidaristophanize explore how we make art in a world coming apart at the seams.
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Vladimir Putin’s gold strategy explains why sanctions against Russia have failed
Russia has tied its currency to gold to evade sanctions. Shifting the ruble away from a pegged value and into the gold standard itself is aimed at making it a credible gold substitute at a fixed rate.
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Concerto Night showcases the Fountain School at its finest — working together to bring classics to life
One of the Fountain School's keystone annual events, Concerto Night brings twelve student soloists with different personal and musical experiences together with the Dalhousie Symphony Orchestra for a night of passionate musical performance.
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Women writers come together to share excerpts from new work
Dal faculty members are among a group of accomplished writers coming together this weekend for a free, off-campus reading event in honour of International Women's Day.
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Two Dalhousie faculty members receive Juno Awards nominations
Fountain School Director Dr. Jérôme Blais and collaborator Suzie LeBlanc are nominated for Classical Album of the Year (Solo Artist), while composition faculty member Amy Brandon is nominated for Classical Composition of the Year for a piece recorded with Symphony Nova Scotia and cellist Jeffrey Zeigler.
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Theatre students take technology to task in latest group‑devised production
In Artificial Oddity, Dal theatre students imagine how different technologies throughout history — from human-controlled fire and the wheel to the internet and beyond — have been received by humanity.
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Dal social anthropologist explores the joyful reasons people are drawn to Mardi Gras
Carnival From the Ground Up, a new exhibition of 70 photographs and stories on display in New Orleans now, pays tribute to the people who make the city's carnival by hand and who take it to the streets on foot.