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Fostering experiential learning - April 26, 2011

International Development Studies students get a chance to learn about food security issues on the ground with 20 new internships with Dalhousie’s partner organizations in Uganda and Cuba.  Read more...


Reflections on 'voluntourism' -
April 12, 2011


Entitled 'Guilt Trips', FASS Essay Competition winner Emma Moore's essay explores the ethical dilemmas of travel and volunteering.  Read more...


Ian Sherwood's dirty secret -
April 6, 2011

What self-respecting, singing-for-his-supper, traveling musician would fess up to an economics degree?  “[It] makes me know how much money I don’t have,” says Ian Sherwood dryly. Read more...

 

Leaping into the new year - January 31, 2011

Since it began at Dalhousie five years ago, enrolment in Chinese (Mandarin) Studies has quadrupled.  A look at the program, past in future, in time for the year of the rabbit.  Read more...

Lynchpin of the bizarre - December 15, 2010

A new course explores the films of iconic American director David Lynch.  Read more...


 

 

Lost and found - December 14, 2010

The Perdita Manuscripts is a digital collection of women's writing from the 16th and 17th centuries.  Read more...

History as close as your phone - December 9, 2010

Dal grad Alexandra Montgomery has found a job that combines her love of history and technology.  Read more...

Blue Man Solo - December 3, 2010

Team IDS carries through on dares and raises money to combat AIDS in Africa.  Read more...


Moving to a bigger stage -  September 24, 2010

With more than 200 faculty members and 3,019 full and part-time students, the faculty that Robert Summerby-Murray presides over is larger than some entire universities. As the new dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, he’s excited by the challenge. Read more...

'It's complicated' - May 3, 2010

If Canada and the United States had Facebook profiles, under “relationship” it would likely read “it's complicated.” For his book studying the relationship between the two countries, Dalhousie professor Brian Bow has been awarded the 2009/2010 Donner Prize for the best book on Canadian public policy.  Read more...

FASS-inating books - May 3, 2010

This year’s crop of over 50 published works by members of the Faculty of Arts and Social sciences was put on show recently.  Read more...

Good eats, good cause - April 6, 2010

For the third time in three years, a group of Dalhousie students has raised enough money to fund the salaries of two teachers in Afghanistan for one year.  Read more...

Laughter through tears - March 24, 2010

Currently on sabbatical, theatre professor Susan Stackhouse says it's fabulous to be back on stage.  Read more...

Bringing a focus to Jewish studies - March 22, 2010

Jim Spatz honors the courage and resilience of his parents in helping to create an endowed chair in Jewish studies.  Read more...

Now put your hands up... - March 18, 2010

From Single Ladies to Light My Fire, the Dalhousie Chamber Choir goes pop for Body & Soul.  Read more...

Revenge is not sweet - February 10, 2010

Five actresses sustain the rage of a woman scorned in DalTheatre's production of Medea.  Read more...

A night at the opera - February 2, 2010

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll sit at the end of the seat—music students perform the comedic Gianni Schicchi and the tragic The Face of the Barroom Floor.  Read more...

 

 


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