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• Dal launches new entrepreneurial AI program for startups in Atlantic Canada
  AI2Market mirrors the nationally recognized Lab2Market entrepreneurship program with a focus on training students in AI.Ìý Fourth-year Computer Science student Vansh Sood shares his experience.
  
• Quantum 1000: New Dal camp introduces high schoolers to revolutionary technology
  Local high school students received a two-day summer crash course in quantum computing, organized by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, that took participants through the basics before challenging them to explore real-world applications.
  
• High winds, high scores: Dal Engineering students take bronze on global stage with offshore wind turbine design
  A trio of ҹɫÊÓƵ students and recent graduates earned international recognition this summer for their innovative offshore wind turbine design in Belgium.
  
• Pioneering work on sustainable health care earns PhD grad prestigious Vanier Scholarship
  From Nova Scotia to New Zealand and beyond, Jonathan Drew’s work reminds that caring for people and caring for the planet are not competing goals — but deeply intertwined imperatives.
  

• A milestone moment: Dal celebrates first graduates of groundbreaking Black and African Diaspora Studies major
  This spring, ҹɫÊÓƵ marks a historic milestone as the first graduates of its Black and African Diaspora Studies major cross the Convocation stage. Meet James Dixon and Portia Wright.
  
• Grad profile: A political awakening abroad
  Meaghan De Adder’s global adventure sparked a powerful political awakening — from Halifax roots to Seoul streets — and a thesis that challenges injustice towards women.
  
• Grad profile: Making sense of identity
  Uihyeok Jung, a Korean immigrant to Canada, overcame language barriers, embraced his cultural identity, and pursued sociology and history, culminating in award-winning research on Korean emotion and social movements.
  
• Grad Profile: From criminology to the Berlin opera
  Sophia Maskine made what she described as a risky decision going back to school for music. But now she’s headed to Berlin, taking on a role with the Berlin Opera Academy and eager to immerse herself in the rich opera culture.
  
• Grad profile: Around the world and back
  Liam Oko remembers sneaking into the Bauer Theater in Antigonish to watch his mom’s rehearsals. Now, with his BA in Theatre, he’ll be on stage himself this summer.
  
• Fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is worsening gender‑based violence against women
  As violence continues to displace people in the eastern DRC, women face a heightened risk of sexual and gender-based violence.