With financial support from Irving Shipbuilding, the Dal-headquartered Marine Environmental Observation Prediction and Response Network (MEOPAR) has announced funding for nine research projects across Canada. One of them is Dal Biologist Julie LaRoche's study of plankton and algal blooms, which are crucial to ocean ecosystems.

At the year's first set of Cross-Current Seminars, Provost and Vice-President Academic Carolyn Watters announced the establishment of new Special Provost-Alumni Scholarships for PhD students in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

We chat with postdoc Sarah Vannier, a researcher with Dal鈥檚 Couples and Sexual Health Research Laboratory, about romantic expectations and their impact on relationships, as well as her current research into postpartum sexuality.

Elaine Craig, Dal law professor and an expert in sexual assault law, discusses the challenges faced by sexual assault victims in the court system and some of the legal issues being debated as a result of the ongoing Jian Ghomeshi trial.

Canada鈥檚 Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Navdeep Bains was on campus Tuesday to celebrate six 妻友 researchers in joining the university鈥檚 contingent of 50 Canada Research Chairs 鈥斅爐he largest in Atlantic Canada.