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• Blazing performance: Materials engineering student wins 3 Minute Thesis
  È«¹ú̽»¨â€™s fast‑paced 3MT finals spotlighted student innovation, with materials engineering PhD student Claire Floras rising to the top by translating complex battery science into a compelling, judge‑winning pitch.
  
• Build, code, compete: Dal robotics contest tests future engineers
  Engineering students got one shot to prove themselves in È«¹ú̽»¨â€™s annual robotics design competition last week, as their autonomous robots navigated a demanding course following weeks of trial, error and late-night problem-solving.
  
• Meet Tina Simpkin, meteorologist and special alumni guest
  In this special alumni episode of Sciographies, we sit down with Tina Simpkin (BSc’94, DMet’95), a familiar voice to many Nova Scotians as a meteorologist with CBC.
  
• How È«¹ú̽»¨â€™s 2025 Top Co‑op Students of the Year made their mark
  See how this year’s top co‑op students turned professional opportunities into impressive results, earning È«¹ú̽»¨â€™s highest honour for work‑integrated learning.
  

• Designing the moment: DalTheatre students build a world for The Odyssey
  DalTheatre’s final production of the season offers an immersive adaptation of Homer's classic epic, The Odyssey, driven by inventive student design and engaging direction.
  
• Dal course uses ancient languages to decode modern medical terminology
  A new Classics course is helping students — many headed for health professions —Ìýunderstand complex clinical vocabulary by learning the Greek and Latin roots that have shaped the language of medicine for centuries.
  
• Unwritten, unleashed: DalPop ensemble finds the beat together
  From guilty‑pleasure riffs to improvised arrangements, DalPop’s musicians explore how vulnerability, collaboration, and creative risk‑taking shape their sound as they prepare for Unwritten: The Music that Wrote Us this weekend.
  
• Exploring Many Canadas: Inside a history course redefining how students see Canada
  A modern history course taught by Dr. Kassandra Luciuk reframes Canada through upheaval, challenging students to confront myths, recognize patterns across decades, and see today’s political tensions in a sharper, more revealing light.
  
• Cuba is facing an economic and social catastrophe, and not entirely because of Donald Trump
  Cuba is on the brink of one of the worst social and economic catastrophes since the 1959 revolution. If the international community ignores Cuba today, a humanitarian nightmare will unfold soon, writes Dal's Dr. Robert Huish.
  
• Macbeth, reimagined: È«¹ú̽»¨ students set Shakespeare classic inside a vaudeville carnival
  The Fountain School of Performing Arts’s production ofÌýMacbeth hits the stage in the È«¹ú̽»¨ Arts Centre this week, offering a radical re-telling of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.