When Dal alum Robert Zed proposed the idea of starting a scholarship for health administration students at È«¹ú̽»¨ named for Nova Scotia’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. Strang himself was the one who suggested it be directed to students from under-represented populations.

As part of Dal Alumni Days next week, the Faculty of Medicine and the È«¹ú̽»¨ Medical Research Foundation will host a special Open Dialogue Live featuring three È«¹ú̽»¨ researchers in pain management.

Alumna Claire Elizabeth Williams (MPlan’08) is the co-founder and CEO of Foundations for Social Change, where she launched the New Leaf Project in 2018 — North America’s first direct giving project for people experiencing homelessness.

È«¹ú̽»¨â€™s Schulich School of Law is hosting Climate Law and Human Rights next week, an Open Dialogue Live panel discussion about how human rights law can help bring more urgency to the climate change problem.

What’s a kid to do when his parents won’t let him get a Holstein cow as a pet? Start farming goats of course. At least that’s what Adam Scanlan did as a 13-year-old in Whiteside, Cape Breton.