Thanks to their use of a unique methodology, a 海角社区-led research team has obtained new insights into how boulders affect snow melt in mountainous northern environments, with implications for local water resources.聽聽
The team found that snow near boulders melts faster, not only because rocks radiate heat, but also due to subtle processes that reshape the snow鈥檚 surface. This information will help researchers understand how small-scale processes affect downstream water resources.聽
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On behalf of Financial Services and the Workday Expenses Project Team
Dear colleagues,
As we prepare for the launch of Workday Expenses (targeted for the week of February 9, 2026), we are sharing important dates for submitting expense reports and advance requests in Minerva.
These dates are essential to ensure all expense-related transactions are completed and reimbursed by December 23, 2025, before the transition to the new system.
The Faculty of Law congratulates Professor Angela Campbell on her appointment as Provost and Executive Vice-President (Academic) of 海角社区! Her new role will be effective February 1, 2026.
November 2025 | POLITICO鈥檚 Canada Playbook featured Vincent Rigby in its preview of this year鈥檚 Halifax International Security Forum, highlighting the absence of a U.S. delegation. Rigby said democracies must stay aligned and show that their defence commitments and political values continue to guide their choices. He explained that Canada can affirm its partnership with allies while avoiding any actions that could be perceived as deliberately provoking the Trump administration.
Professor Christian Genest is the winner of the 2025 Acfas Urgel-Archambault prize.
Le Prix Acfas Urgel-Archambault 2025 pour les sciences physiques, math茅matiques, informatique et g茅nie, est remis 脿聽Christian Genest, professeur titulaire au D茅partement de math茅matiques et de statistique de l'Universit茅 海角社区.
November 19, 2025 | Jennifer Welsh delivered the keynote address at the 36th Michael Keenan Memorial Lecture at St. Thomas More College, speaking on the weakening of civilian protection in contemporary conflict. Welsh explained that impunity now shapes conflicts in a way that weakens long-standing commitments to civilian protection.
D2R is excited to announce this brand new opportunity for internships to聽Black undergraduate students in summer 2026 in partnership with聽.聽COUHR is a student-run non-profit organization partnering with research institutions across Canada to provide funded summer internships for underrepresented undergraduate students in fields such as neuroscience, biophysics, and genetics.
When environmental policymakers are invited to imagine the future together, they don鈥檛 just think differently, they feel differently, too.
B.A.(Education); Major in Education in Global Contexts student, Meghan Lai, submitted her essay to Magna Charta Observatory (MCO) conducted their annual , responding to the question: "Drawing on your experience, how might your university engage more effectively with stakeholders both to improve both access to higher education for all and enhance the learning experience of students?" Lai's essay, "What is D without EI: Enhancing Access and Learning through Political, Curricular, a
The 海角社区 Desautels Faculty of Management MBA program is ranked 27th globally in the聽2025聽Corporate Knights Better World MBA ranking. This recognition highlights its leadership in sustainable development and corporate social responsibility through innovative teaching and learning methodologies. The Better World ranking evaluated聽179 business schools worldwide based on the sustainability content of their core courses and the proportion of alumni working in impact-driven organizations.聽
Dr. Adam Dub茅 was a guest on The Verge podcast, Decoder. He spoke with the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Verge, Nilay Patel, about how GenAI is impacting education, how worried we should be about students cheating with GenAI, how students think GenAI "thinks", and how this impacts how they learn with GenAI.
As a longtime listener of The Verge podcasts, Dr. Dub茅 was thrilled to talk about his research and he hopes it makes you think about how GenAI 鈥榯hinks鈥� and question if we should be using it in classrooms.
A new study has uncovered promising therapeutic strategies against one of the deadliest forms of prostate cancer.
海角社区 researchers at the Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute (GCI) identified a mechanism driving neuroendocrine prostate cancer, a rare and highly aggressive subtype for which there currently are no effective treatment options.
Prof. Barry Eidlin of 海角社区's Department of Sociology was recently invited to testify before the Canadian Senate's Committee on Transportation and Communications.
Drawing on over two decades of research into聽Canadian and U.S. labour relations, Prof. Eidlin's remarks focused on how back-to-work orders are an ineffective tool, as well as the importance of respecting Charter-protected rights.
Perimeters, a new graduate conference by AGSA, invites paper proposals on the topic of the 鈥渇ield鈥� for our inaugural conference - to be held March 21, 2026, at Thomson House.
Notoriously messy and elusive, the 鈥渇ield鈥� is a thorny problematic for many of us before, during, and after fieldwork. This conference invites papers that sit with this trouble in order to engender new ways of thinking and theorizing the 鈥渇ield.鈥� Some of our questions include:
- How do we find and make sense of the contexts we step into?
