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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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Mary-Eleanor Power
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
±«Óătv's Aboriginal Health Sciences Success (AHSS) program at the Faculty of Agriculture offers students like Sage Marshall a pathway into careers and further studies in the health sciences.
Matt Reeder
Monday, April 4, 2016
Environmental Studies student Adam Cheeseman, who studies how summer camps can help children learn about sustainability, is one of 25 researchers selected as finalists in the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's (SSHRC) annual Storytellers competition.
Ryan McNutt
Thursday, March 31, 2016
±«Óătv University and the ±«Óătv Student Union have collaborated to create a new ombudsperson office for students, set to be implemented this fall.
Matt Semansky
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Xiaoqi Cai's own experience as a newcomer to Canada inspires her Impact Award-winning work as a guide, sounding board and "big sister" to Dal's Chinese students.
Tanis Trainor
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
A capacity crowd filled the McInnes Room on March 24 to celebrate some outstanding students and their impressive achievements at the Impact Awards.