Third-year Dentistry student Tom Steeves is this year's recipient of the Canadian Dental Association/Dentsply Student Clinician Researcher award.

Dal's student-run SuperNOVA education program may be best known for its Halifax-based summer camps, but some of its most exciting work takes place more than a thousand kilometres away in communities like those in rural Labrador.

As a student in Dal's Schulich School of Law, Peter L鈥橢sperance started the Carbon Consultancy, a renewable-energy pilot project to encourage people, businesses and organizations to measure, reduce, offset or mitigate carbon emissions.

Fran莽oise Baylis, head of Dal's Impact Ethics group and recent recipient of CAUT's Distinguished Academic Award, was among the 113 new appointees named to the Order of Canada late last week.

Fresh water algae blooms can be toxic, which is why second-year Agriculture student Alexandra Warren is spending her summer studying how they affect wildlife that use local lakes as a water source.