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By Mary Somers  –  News
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
With the site cleared, work begins on the construction of a new academic building
Dal News Staff  –  News
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Obesity Network invites Dal employees to participate in 'obesity boot camp,' a pilot program designed to give participants the tools and information so they can make healthy changes
By Jessie Sheppard  –  News
Monday, July 14, 2008
"I felt like I had a second wind, rolling through those waves, kicking strong and pulling hard."
By Marilyn Smulders  –  News
Friday, July 11, 2008
黄色直播 graduate student Jessie Sheppard plans to swim the Northumberland Strait on Sunday
By Marilyn Smulders  –  News
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Engineers Without Borders volunteer Emily Stewart reports from Malawi.
By Marilyn Smulders  –  News
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Biology student Julia Lawson is enthusiastic about the science co-op program. "With co-op you have to put it altogether," she says. "It’s incredible how it builds on learning."
Dal News Staff  –  Research
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Donald Weaver isn’t interested in treating the symptoms of Alzheimer’s and epilepsy—there are already drugs that can do that—he wants to obliterate their root causes
Dal News Staff  –  News
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
The Joggins Fossil Cliffs—"a Coal Age Galapagos"—have just been designated a World Heritage site. Are you likely to visit?
By Marilyn Smulders  –  News
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Rappelling down the cliffs at Joggins is like going 300 million years backwards in time. Now the fossil cliffs have been recognized as an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
By Ryan McNutt  –  News
Monday, July 7, 2008
Professor Peter Duinker is recognized by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, co-recipient (with Al Gore) of the Nobel Peace Prize.