Tobias Gerhard Schminke was one of 13 scholars selected out of 500 applicants to receive the prestigious Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholarship and becomes the third Political Science doctoral student at Dal to receive it in 10 years.

Professor Erin Johnson, the Herzberg-Becke Chair in Theoretical Chemistry, is the first Dal researcher to receive the Steacie Prize — one of Canada’s most prestigious awards for early-career scientists.

Because they help to create a shared understanding, metaphors can play a critical role in navigating the gap between the knowledge patients and health-care providers bring, write Jasmine Mah and Kaitlin Sibbald.

The heart used in the first pig-human transplant was infected with a pig virus. This reveals that using other species as organ donors may not provide a solution for organ shortages, writes Dal researchers Françoise Baylis and Andrew Fenton.

Four Dal researchers have been a driving force behind Dartmouth-firm Planetary Technologies’ win of the Musk Foundation’s XPRIZE Carbon Removal award. The firm is one of 15 $1-million (USD) milestone award winners selected from a global pool of more than 1,100 teams.