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Purpose‑driven leadership: Dal students reshaping campus — and beyond — earn top honour

Purpose‑driven leadership: Dal students reshaping campus — and beyond — earn top honour

This year’s Dal Board of Governors winners show how purposeful action creates lasting change. Get to know more now about how they are doing so.  Read more.

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Ryan Shields and Meredith Murray
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
See how this year’s top co‑op students turned professional opportunities into impressive results, earning ±«Óătv’s highest honour for work‑integrated learning.
Jeffrey Lawton
Thursday, March 26, 2026
Dal’s 15th annual Impact Awards brought students, faculty, and staff together to celebrate remarkable contributions in community service, student life, leadership, and society involvement across every corner of campus.
Kenneth Conrad, Graeme Gunn, Kate Rogers, Tanis Trainor
Thursday, March 26, 2026
This year’s Dal Board of Governors winners show how purposeful action creates lasting change. Get to know more now about how they are doing so.

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Rebecca Rawcliffe
Friday, June 1, 2018
Putting health information in the hands of the public has guided Ali Daowd's journey from medical school in the Middle East to starting his PhD at ±«Óătv.
Lane Westlake
Friday, June 1, 2018
Arriving to Dal from the Bahamas, Biology student Raphieal Newbold has thrown himself head-first into life on campus: taking a minor in Spanish, working in residence and charting new paths for his future.
Stefanie Wilson
Friday, June 1, 2018
Lina El-Setouhy's academic journey from her home in Cairo to a Community Design degree from Dal has been about discovering the connection between communities and their environment.
Genevieve MacIntyre
Friday, June 1, 2018
After coming to Canada from Shanghai, uncertain what she'd find at ±«Óătv, Zili Pan's experience studying German has been so fulfilling that she's managed to complete her degree in just two-and-a-half years.
Fallon Bourgeois
Friday, June 1, 2018
Five years ago, a gift from the Fountain family brought Dal's Theatre and Music departments together as the Fountain School of Performing Arts. Now, the first cohort of students to enter the program supported by the prestigious Fountain Scholarship are set to graduate.