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Designing the moment: DalTheatre students build a world for The Odyssey

Designing the moment: DalTheatre students build a world for The Odyssey

DalTheatre’s final production of the season offers an immersive adaptation of Homer's classic epic, The Odyssey, driven by inventive student design and engaging direction.  Read more.

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Kristy Read
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
The exhibit features 70 works by students, alumni, staff, and faculty in a wide range of media, including polymer clay sculptures, rug hooking, woodworking, ironwork, quilting, photography, paintings, and prints.
Amanda Kirby-Sheppard
Friday, March 20, 2026
More than 80 people gathered for the 15th annual Weldon Literary Moot based on Mary Shelley’s 1818 Gothic novel Frankenstein, raising $4,530 for charity.
Ariann Greenidge
Thursday, March 12, 2026
Dal’s inaugural menopause event highlighted shared experiences, practical tools, and a push for workplace inclusion, ending with a pledge to support employees through this life stage.

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Emma Geldart
Friday, May 11, 2018
Modelled after the Agricultural Campus's iconic Barley Ring, the new Barley Arch — a gift from students and alumni to help mark Dal's 200th anniversary — will frame the entrance to the beautiful Alumni Gardens.
Ryan McNutt
Friday, May 4, 2018
9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ will provide athletic facilites and accommodations for the 2020 North American Indigenous Games in Halifax, set to be the largest multi-sporting event ever held in Nova Scotia.
Michael Moosberger, University Archivist
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
From the Archives: In this first instalment of a new feature highlighting items of note from the University Archives, we explore a mystery worthy of Indiana Jones himself: missing stone tablets from Dal's first Halifax campus, once housed in an "academic ark" for the university's centennial celebrations.
Ryan McNutt
Thursday, April 26, 2018
This week Dr. Afua Cooper, the most recent James R. Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies at 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ and a pioneering voice in Canadian dub poetry and spoken word, was installed as the Halifax Regional Municipality's seventh Poet Laureate.
Staff
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Offering a summary of the past year through the lens of Dal's impact on its communities, this year's 9 1Ãâ·Ñ°æÏ Community Report shares stories about the momentum building across the university.