It's a family affair on the Tigers men's soccer team this season. With sons of former Tigers and two pairs of brothers, Dal looks to have a family-like connection on the field. Sam Ellis is joining older brother Jack Ellis this season. The first pair of brothers on the team, hailing from Liverpool, England, are following in their parent's footsteps. The Ellis brothers' mother, Carla Perry, won a national championship with Dal in 1994 with the women's team, and their father, Mark Ellis, accomplished the same feat in 1995 with the men's team.

https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/09/26/tigers-feature-family-dynamic-this-season.html

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National Coaches Week begins on September 16 to celebrate the positive impact coaches have on athletes and communities across Canada. Over the years, countless Tigers athletes have given back to their community through coaching. Fourth-year jumper Tobi Oshikoya of the track and field team coached in his hometown of Truro, Nova Scotia, over the past two summers at École acadienne de Truro. As a jumps coach, Oshikoya coached children from grades 6-12. 'Charity begins at home,' is what Oshikoya's father has always told him and continues to resonate with him.

https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/09/19/tigers-athletes-building-communities-through-coaching.html

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Sciographies is a radio show and podcast about the people who make science happen, presented by The Faculty of Science and campus-community radio station CKDU 88.1 FM. This article is the first in a series that will feature excerpts from each new episode released this fall. Dr. Chuck Macdonald's (BSc'94, PhD'98) career path began in high school when he won a contest to spend a week exploring the chemistry labs here at Dalhousie. The on-campus experience and exposure to chemistry left quite the impression.

https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/09/15/sciographies-chuck-macdonald.html

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Lara Millman is a PhD Student in Philosophy at Dalhousie University. Most people think they acquire their beliefs using a high standard of objectivity. But recent arguments between people about issues like trans rights, vaccinations or Roe v. Wade point to a different reality. Consider the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. There is plenty of evidence to show that widely accessible abortions lead to safer outcomes for children and people who can become pregnant. Moreover, data suggests abortion bans are ineffective, harmful and dangerous.

https://www.dal.ca/news/2022/08/05/it-s-hard-to-challenge-someone-s-false-beliefs-because-their-ide.html

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Dalhousie University presents our PepsiCo Athletes of the Week for the week ending Sunday, January 15, 2023. Lucy Glen-Carter, Volleyball Fourth-year outside hitter Lucy Glen-Carter is this week's female PepsiCo Athlete of the Week. Lucy led the Tigers to back-to-back wins over UNB this past weekend. She had 15 kills, six digs, two blocks and two aces in the Tigers 3-0 win Friday night in Fredericton, New Brunswick to be named the Subway Player of the Game. The next day, she added another 15 kills and 10 digs for 17.

https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/01/17/pepsico-athletes-of-the-week--week-ending-jan--15-.html

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U SPORTS proudly announced Tuesday the student-athletes selected as Top 8 Academic All-Canadians for the 2021-22 season. Shae Demale of Saint Mary's, Alex Carson of Dalhousie, Jade Downie-Landry of McGill University, Jean-Simon Desgagnés of Laval, Raphaël Garcia of Carleton, Kate Current of Western, and Eric Lutz and Rebecca Smith of Calgary were nominated for their excellence both on and off the field of play. Among the 4900+ student-athletes who achieved U SPORTS Academic All-Canadian status in 2021-22, one female and one male student-athlete from each of the four U SPORTS conferences were selected to make up the Top 8.

https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/01/25/carson-named-u-sports-top-8-academic-all-canadian.html

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Jasmine Mah, Dalhousie University and Melissa K. Andrew, Dalhousie University The emergency department (ED) can be a stressful and confusing place for individuals who are sick or injured. During the pandemic, with many hospitals not permitting friends or family to accompany ED patients, being alone may exacerbate the uncertainty, fear and anxiety patients may experience about things like waiting times, undergoing tests or medical prognoses. Research shows that almost half of all patients leave the hospital with a poor understanding of their ED visit.

https://www.dal.ca/news/2022/03/23/hospital-emergency-department-tips.html

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The 2022 Canada Games wrapped up on August 21 in Niagara, Ontario and the Tigers were well represented with over 55 current, incoming and former athletes and coaches participating in the Games. In the first week of competition, incoming women's basketball player Sarah Valley helped lead Team Saskatchewan to a silver medal finish. Jasenda Horsman and Mercy Ogulu earned a sixth-place finish representing Nova Scotia, while Gracie Dalton and Abby Carpenter finished the event in ninth with Newfoundland.

https://www.dal.ca/news/2022/08/24/tigers-do-well-at-2022-canada-games.html

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This week, Tigers women's soccer head coach Cindy Tye leads Canada's U20 women's national team to the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Costa Rica. After a week-long training camp, the Canucks will face Korea Republic on Thursday, followed by France on August 14. Rounding out group action is a game versus Nigeria on August 17. Tye and her coaching staff hope to prepare the players to face the wide range of playing styles they will face in the group stage. 'Korea Republic will be tight technically, controlled in possession, and organized.

https://www.dal.ca/news/2022/08/11/tigers-women-s-soccer-head-coach-cindy-tye-leads-canada-s-u20-wo.html

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Julia Rodgers is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at Dalhousie University. It increasingly seems that projections of election results based on public polling are unreliable. The 2022 midterm elections in the United States are a prime example. Americans appeared set to vote Republican en masse — in a so-called 'Red Wave' — on the morning of Nov. 8. Amid high inflation, a precarious House of Representatives majority and low approval ratings for President Joe Biden, a perfect storm was brewing. Polls suggested a huge Republican win was imminent and the party was poised to secure control of the House and the Senate with a sizeable majority.

https://www.dal.ca/news/2022/11/25/young-u-s--voters-reduced-the--red-wave--to-a--pink-splash--in-t.html

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The 12th annual Dalhousie Tigers Women in Leadership Spotlight Dinner, presented by RBC was hosted on Wednesday night, with more than 350 people gathered in the McInnes Room at The Dalhousie Student Union Building.  The Women in Leadership Spotlight Dinner began in 2009 with a goal of celebrating women in leadership positions who have used their experiences in elite-level sport to help strengthen and hone their leadership skills. Presented by the women's basketball and volleyball teams, the event highlights key attributes like commitment, teamwork, time-management and perseverance, that are all paramount to good leadership.

https://www.dal.ca/news/2022/12/05/key-leadership-qualities-discussed-at-12th-annual-women-in-leade.html

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After finishing third at the AUS championship last year, Kelsey Hogan decided to aim higher and took this season off from competition to train for a 165km ultramarathon. An ultramarathon is not something that is easily achieved, but the Halifax native and master of sport psychology major has completed more than 10 of them. She'll be running The Grand Raid Réunion, also known as la Diagonale des Fous on Réunion Island October 20-23. Its an annual invitation-only 165km race with over 3000 participants.

https://www.dal.ca/news/2022/10/21/dal-cross-country-runner-to-compete-in-165km-ultramarathon-overs.html

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When National AccessAbility Week  kicked off Sunday, people in our province were coming to terms with another pressing issue: the rapid spread of wildfires. responded quickly to offer supports for students, faculty and staff who might be impacted by the fires and, in doing so, exhibited its commitment to fostering a caring, kind, safe and empathetic campus community. This proactive approach toward helping each other reflects the same spirit that lies at the heart of the Accessibility Plan .

https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/06/02/national-accessability-week-2023-dalhousie.html

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Simon Sherry  is a Clinical Psychologist and Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at  . We live in the age of perfection. Perfectionism is a personality trait that involves demanding a flawless standard of performance and harshly evaluating ourselves and others. Expectations are so high that something is either flawless or worthless. Perfectionism rates steadily increased over recent decades , and our culture is now obsessed: the perfect body, job, partner, vacation … the perfect life.

https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/06/23/wedding-planning-tips-perfectionism.html

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Ahh, that new semester vibe: new courses, different instructors, a fresh opportunity to excel and get the most of your academic experience at Dal. Too bad the feeling is often so fleeting. In no time, textbooks beckon to be opened and assignments start piling up. Before you know it, mid-terms are floating into view and you're plotting out what courses you'll need to take next year to meet your degree requirements. If this scenario has you headed straight to the couch for a Netflix binge or tapping on TikTok, hold up for a second.

https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/01/13/dal-s-peer-advisors-reveal-their-secrets-on-how-to-have-a-stella.html

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Dalhousie University presents our PepsiCo Athletes of the Week for the week ending Sunday, January 8, 2023. Grace Beer, Hockey First-year goaltender Grace Beer is this week's female PepsiCo Athlete of the Week. Grace had a great weekend in nets for the Tigers this past weekend. She made 21 saves in the Tigers 2-0 loss to the UNB REDS Friday night in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Grace stood tall for the Tigers on Saturday, especially during the shootout, turning away 47 shots to earn Subway Player of the Game honours in their 2-1 loss to UPEI at home.

https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/01/10/pepsico-athletes-of-the-week--week-ending-jan--9-.html

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When an honours high school student starts university, everyone expects they will do well. But as Ashley Hill (BA'13) found out, the path to success seems only to be paved for some. Hill's post-secondary journey started the way it does for many students: she enrolled in standard first-year courses like macroeconomics and psychology. The trouble was, she was unfamiliar with the subjects and struggled to engage. It wasn't just the course material she had a hard time adjusting to. Hill was suddenly in much larger classes than she'd had in high school.

https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/09/08/ashley-hill-prep-academy.html

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Climate change has become an undeniable reality for the modern world. Global temperatures are climbing an estimated 0.14° C per decade, according to U.S. government figures. With that comes irreversible consequences, from rising sea levels and extreme weather to biodiversity loss and worsening health for humanity. These are signs that radical change is needed — and fast.  The United Nations estimates that energy production in the world's cities accounts for 60 per cent of the total global greenhouse gas emissions.

https://www.dal.ca/news/2022/11/25/upcoming-open-dialogue-live-to-discuss-clean-energy-for-the-next.html

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Ali Hammoud, born and raised in Lebanon, returned to the country last summer to work at the Children's Cancer Centre of Lebanon, a non-profit medical institution that offers no-cost treatment to children from adolescence to age 18. The third-year microbiology and immunology student, who is minoring in health studies and psychology, is passionate about using what he learns in the classroom to help others. Ali's job was to research and implement a data registry system to make access to healthcare and medication easier.

https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/05/12/ali-hammoud-student-lebanon.html

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Over the past several decades, Marie Jones has had plenty of reasons to visit the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium and other venues during Dalhousie's bustling Convocation season. She's attended 10 ceremonies for family members alone, mostly for her six children. The degrees received by the Jones family, including one by her since-departed husband, David I. Jones, run the gamut from law and medicine to public administration and arts. This past Tuesday, Marie returned to the Cohn again at age 92 — only this time she was the one crossing the stage to pick up a parchment for her Master of Arts.

https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/06/09/spring-convocation-2023-marie-jones.html

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The 2024 national women's soccer tournament returns to for the second time in U SPORTS history - the first was in 1996. The Tigers boast extensive championship experience, having previously hosted 18 national events, most recently the 2022 cross country championships. 'We are pleased to have been awarded the 2024 U SPORTS women's soccer championship, which will fall on the 30 th  anniversary of our 1994 national gold medal win,' said Tim Maloney, executive director of athletics and recreation at .

https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/06/29/dalhousie-to-host-2024-national-women-s-soccer-championship.html

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On Wednesday evening in Quebec City, U SPORTS announced their women's soccer award winners. Two Tigers earned national recognition.  Second year midfielder Megan Chiasson was named a first team All-Canadian. Chiasson was a key member of the Tigers midfield, starting all 12 games in their undefeated regular season. She found the back of the net three times this season, two of which were game winning goals. Chiasson was named an AUS all-star last week and played the full 90 minutes of both play off games for the Tigers.

https://www.dal.ca/news/2022/11/11/two-soccer-players-earn-national-recognition.html

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Next week marks the beginning of the 2022 Canada Summer Games, Over 4,000 athletes and coaches in 20 sports will descend on Niagara, Ontario, the host for this year's event. Fifty-three of them (43 athletes and 10 coaches) are former, current or incoming Tigers who will be representing their home provinces during the two-week event. Rich Lehman, the Tigers current cross country and track and field coach coach will lead Nova Scotia's athletics team alongside current assistant coaches Heather Beaton, Kirk Jessome and Jodi Langley.

https://www.dal.ca/news/2022/08/05/dalhousie-tigers-well-represented-at-the-2022-canada-summer-game.html

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Nova Scotia's first-ever Global Game Jam held earlier this year revealed just how much pent-up demand there is in the province for opportunities to experiment with video-game development. More than 200 people in Halifax, Yarmouth, and New Glasgow showed up in person for the hackathon-style event, which challenged teams to build a game in less than 48 hours. 'We ended up having the third largest event in Canada and created more than 40 games,' says Emily Fenton, manager of ShiftKey Labs in the Dal's Faculty of Computer Science , of the February event.

https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/04/21/global-game-jam-nova-scotia-hackathon.html

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Dalhousie's Faculty of Open Learning and Career Development (OLCD) hosted a celebration event this month to recognize learners who successfully completed certificates from 2021 to 2023.  The "Celebration of Lifelong Learning,' which took place online, offered certificate students spread around the globe a chance to come together as a community to celebrate their successes. Dr. Kim Brooks, Dal's provost and vice-president academic, expressed her excitement and pride in the exceptional educational experience OLCD provides.

https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/06/23/open-learning-career-development-dalhousie-celebration-2023.html

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As summer arrives, the warm temperatures bring new visitors to Nova Scotian waters. According to Dr. Chris Harvey-Clark, director of animal care and university veterinarian at Dalhousie, 'Sharks are here four weeks earlier than last year.' Warming waters due to climate change was one of many topics discussed at a recent event that brought together a group of Dalhousie scientists to share their knowledge, understanding and passion for shark research and conservation. Shown left: Dr. Chris Harvey-Clark shows off the jaw bones of a white shark.

https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/06/30/shark-scientists-conservation-dalhousie.html

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A jam-packed roster of events, from an opening ceremony complete with cheer-off to a DJ party and movie night on the quad, offers the newest members of Dal's student community a chance to get to know campus and each other.

https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/09/01/dalhousie-orientation-2023.html?utm_source=dalnewsRSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=dalnews

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