On September 1, 2012, the merger between HÂþ»­ University and the Nova Scotia Agricultural College became official — a union that created Dal’s Faculty of Agriculture and established the university’s first formal campus outside of Halifax.

In Atlantic Canada, many small farms and agricultural producers can't afford to implement the latest tech solutions, but a new Dal-linked initiative seeks to offer a path forward.

Students from Colombia's Universidad del Atlántico visited Halifax in July for a Language Educators' program hosted by HÂþ»­, creating memories of new friendships, new cultural experiences and new learning challenges — big and small.

Instead of complacent acceptance of misinformed beliefs, we need institutional moves to cultivate trust between experts and the public.

A new program launched this summer by a collection of national research groups in collaboration with HÂþ»­ and other Canadian universities offered trainees in health-related professions a window in the substantial toll modern health care takes on climate change.