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Apply for the 3 Minute Thesis competition!
Dalhousie’s annual 3 Minute Thesis competition brings together the graduate student community. Share your ideas and compete for a chance to win prizes.
PhD students: Become an OpenThinker
PhD students: Become an OpenThinker
Dalhousie’s OpenThink Initiative gives PhD students the skills and platform to share their ideas with the world. Join the next cohort. Learn how.
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Dal GradPD
Dal GradPD
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Together@Dal: Grad Edition
Together@Dal: Grad Edition
Dalhousie’s Faculty of Graduate Studies welcomes new students from around the world with the Together@Dal: Grad Edition orientation program.
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Community spotlight
Community spotlight: Patricia Porto de Barros Ayaz
Community spotlight: Patricia Porto de Barros Ayaz
A doctoral student shares how a travel grant and academic training boosted her research momentum and opened doors to connect her work with wider audiences.
Community spotlight: Lindsay Van Dam
Community spotlight: Lindsay Van Dam
Dal's OpenThink program helps PhDs showcase their research impact and dive into the world of public scholarship. For 2025 participant Lindsay Van Dam, it's become an essential part of her overall PhD experience.
Community Spotlight: Celebrating Dal’s Killam Scholars
Community Spotlight: Celebrating Dal’s Killam Scholars
Dalhousie’s Killam Celebration shone a light on groundbreaking research and honoured those scholars shaping global innovation, while unveiling a bold new vision for the prestigious Killam Doctoral Scholarship launching next year.
Community spotlight: Flavie Perron
Community spotlight: Flavie Perron
An Instagram contest turned lab work into a ticket to Valencia for Biology PhD student Flavie Perron, who showcased mussel research and made global aquaculture connections.
Community spotlight: Annual Legacy Awards
Community spotlight: Annual Legacy Awards
Community spotlight: Sarah Norris
Community spotlight: Sarah Norris
Community spotlight: Swedha Madhu, Joshita P.S. Kumar & Subhiksha Jayakumar
Community spotlight: Swedha Madhu, Joshita P.S. Kumar & Subhiksha Jayakumar
Community spotlight: Dal’s final Vanier and Banting recipients
Community spotlight: Dal’s final Vanier and Banting recipients
Community spotlight: Purvangi Patel
Community spotlight: Purvangi Patel
Community spotlight: BMO Financial Group Graduate Scholarship in Agriculture
Community spotlight: BMO Financial Group Graduate Scholarship in Agriculture
Community spotlight: Melina Markotjohn
Community spotlight: Melina Markotjohn
Community spotlight: Jazmyne McLaughlin
Community spotlight: Jazmyne McLaughlin
Community spotlight: Ridwan Oladipupo
Community spotlight: Ridwan Oladipupo
Community spotlight: Camille Chandra
Community spotlight: Camille Chandra
Community spotlight: Annika Benson
Community spotlight: Annika Benson
Community spotlight: Celina Abba
Community spotlight: Celina Abba
Community spotlight: Dalhousie Free Store
Community spotlight: Dalhousie Free Store
Community spotlight: African Nova Scotian Research Ethics project
Community spotlight: African Nova Scotian Research Ethics project
Community spotlight: Jonathan Drew
Community spotlight: Jonathan Drew
Community spotlight: Dal’s Master of Health Administration (MHA) program
Community spotlight: Dal’s Master of Health Administration (MHA) program
Community spotlight: Patrick White
Community spotlight: Patrick White
Community spotlight: Community-Oriented Coastal Observatory (COCO)
Community spotlight: Community-Oriented Coastal Observatory (COCO)
Community spotlight: Dalhousie team wins IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society Ocean Challenge
Community spotlight: Dalhousie team wins IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society Ocean Challenge
Community spotlight: Patrick Hickey
Community spotlight: Patrick Hickey
Community spotlight: Shirin Shaikh
Community spotlight: Shirin Shaikh
Community spotlight: Katie Brousseau
Community spotlight: Katie Brousseau
Community spotlight: Paulette Cameron
Community spotlight: Paulette Cameron
Community spotlight: Dalhousie Centre for Psychological Health
Community spotlight: Dalhousie Centre for Psychological Health
Community spotlight: Dr. Sarah Martell
Community spotlight: Dr. Sarah Martell
Community spotlight: Dr. John Sapp
Community spotlight: Dr. John Sapp
Community spotlight: 2025 OpenThink cohort
Community spotlight: 2025 OpenThink cohort
Community spotlight: Patricia Porto de Barros Ayaz
Community spotlight: Patricia Porto de Barros Ayaz
Community spotlight: Ahmed Ramadan
Community spotlight: Ahmed Ramadan
Community spotlight: Dr. Frank Rudzicz
Community spotlight: Dr. Frank Rudzicz
Community spotlight: Dr. Maryam Abdollahi
Community spotlight: Dr. Maryam Abdollahi
Community spotlight: Equlantic Aquatic Monitoring Inc.
Community spotlight: Equlantic Aquatic Monitoring Inc.
Community spotlight: Justine Ammendolia
Community spotlight: Justine Ammendolia
Community spotlight: Dr. Christine Chambers
Community spotlight: Dr. Christine Chambers
Community spotlight: New grad and professional program fair
Community spotlight: New grad and professional program fair
Community spotlight: Focused Research Investments (FRI)
Community spotlight: Focused Research Investments (FRI)
Community spotlight: Chris Algar
Community spotlight: Chris Algar
Community spotlight: Dr. Rafaela Andrade
Community spotlight: Dr. Rafaela Andrade
Community spotlight: Dr. Derek Reilly
Community spotlight: Dr. Derek Reilly
Community spotlight: Morgan Piczak
Community spotlight: Morgan Piczak
Community spotlight: Sonja Rose
Community spotlight: Sonja Rose
Community spotlight: Jamil Muradov
Community spotlight: Jamil Muradov
Community spotlight: Dina Rogers
Community spotlight: Dina Rogers
Community spotlight: Michael Albert Garron Fund
Community spotlight: Michael Albert Garron Fund
Community spotlight: Dr. Tushar Sharma
Community spotlight: Dr. Tushar Sharma
Community spotlight: Dr. Harvey Amani Whitfield
Community spotlight: Dr. Harvey Amani Whitfield
Community spotlight: shalan joudry
Community spotlight: shalan joudry
Community spotlight: Drs. Mita Dasog and Michael Freund
Community spotlight: Drs. Mita Dasog and Michael Freund
Community spotlight: Dr. Alexa Yakubovich
Community spotlight: Dr. Alexa Yakubovich
Community spotlight: Helen Pinsent
Community spotlight: Helen Pinsent
Community spotlight: Dal's 2024 Doctoral Thesis Award winners
Community spotlight: Dal's 2024 Doctoral Thesis Award winners
Community spotlight: Dalhousie Impact Awards
Community spotlight: Dalhousie Impact Awards
Community spotlight: BIPOC Graduate Student Mentoring Academy
Community spotlight: BIPOC Graduate Student Mentoring Academy
Community spotlight: Dr. Elaine Craig
Community spotlight: Dr. Elaine Craig
Community spotlight: Dal's 2024 OpenThinkers
Community spotlight: Dal's 2024 OpenThinkers
Community spotlight: Dalhousie Centre for Psychological Health
Community spotlight: Dalhousie Centre for Psychological Health
Community spotlight: Emily Drake
Community spotlight: Emily Drake
Community spotlight: Suresh Neethirajan
Community spotlight: Suresh Neethirajan
Community spotlight: Dr. Jérôme Blais and Amy Brandon
Community spotlight: Dr. Jérôme Blais and Amy Brandon
Community spotlight: Joseph Orji
Community spotlight: Joseph Orji
Community spotlight: Dr. Najah Attig & Dr. Oumar Sy
Community spotlight: Dr. Najah Attig & Dr. Oumar Sy
Community spotlight: Nicole Harrington
Community spotlight: Nicole Harrington
Community spotlight: Boris Worm
Community spotlight: Boris Worm
Community spotlight: Reihane Sobhaeerooy
Community spotlight: Reihane Sobhaeerooy
Community spotlight: Keahna Margeson
Community spotlight: Keahna Margeson
Community spotlight: Joseph Bedard
Community spotlight: Joseph Bedard
Community spotlight: Emalie Hayes
Community spotlight: Emalie Hayes
Community spotlight: The OpenThink blog
Community spotlight: The OpenThink blog
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Meet our 2025 OpenThinkers
Meet our OpenThinkers: Lindsay Van Dam
Meet our OpenThinkers: Lindsay Van Dam
Meet our OpenThinkers: Loveth Ovedje
Meet our OpenThinkers: Loveth Ovedje
Meet our OpenThinkers: Leticia Magpali
Meet our OpenThinkers: Leticia Magpali
Meet our OpenThinkers: Soma Barawi
Meet our OpenThinkers: Soma Barawi
Meet our OpenThinkers: Dom Rosati
Meet our OpenThinkers: Dom Rosati
Meet our OpenThinkers: Mohammad Monzurul AminIfath
Meet our OpenThinkers: Mohammad Monzurul AminIfath
Meet our OpenThinkers: Porto de Barros Ayaz
Meet our OpenThinkers: Porto de Barros Ayaz
Meet our OpenThinkers: Hannah Cahill
Meet our OpenThinkers: Hannah Cahill
Meet our OpenThinkers: Angelisa Osmond
Meet our OpenThinkers: Angelisa Osmond
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Meet our 2024 OpenThinkers
Dal's 2024 OpenThinkers forge new frontiers in research
Dal's 2024 OpenThinkers forge new frontiers in research
Dal’s OpenThink initiative officially returns for its fifth year with 16 ambitious PhD students from across the university ready to share their leading-edge ideas and research with the community.
Meet our OpenThinkers: Shahrooz Motahari
Meet our OpenThinkers: Shahrooz Motahari
Meet our OpenThinkers: Mozammel Bin Motalab
Meet our OpenThinkers: Mozammel Bin Motalab
Meet our OpenThinkers: Mohamad Alikhani
Meet our OpenThinkers: Mohamad Alikhani
Meet our OpenThinkers: Md Asif Hasan Anik
Meet our OpenThinkers: Md Asif Hasan Anik
Meet our OpenThinkers: Sigma Jahan
Meet our OpenThinkers: Sigma Jahan
Meet our OpenThinkers: Helen Pinsent
Meet our OpenThinkers: Helen Pinsent
Meet our OpenThinkers: Al Muktadir Munam
Meet our OpenThinkers: Al Muktadir Munam
Meet our OpenThinkers: Grace Wang
Meet our OpenThinkers: Grace Wang
Meet our OpenThinkers: Emilee Fackelmann
Meet our OpenThinkers: Emilee Fackelmann
Meet our OpenThinkers: Ben Collison
Meet our OpenThinkers: Ben Collison
Meet our OpenThinkers: Chioma Abuba
Meet our OpenThinkers: Chioma Abuba
Meet our OpenThinkers: Jamil Muradov
Meet our OpenThinkers: Jamil Muradov
Meet our OpenThinkers: Nachum Gabler
Meet our OpenThinkers: Nachum Gabler
Meet our OpenThinkers: Bimpe Ayoola
Meet our OpenThinkers: Bimpe Ayoola
Meet our OpenThinkers: Robert Morissette
Meet our OpenThinkers: Robert Morissette
Meet our OpenThinkers: Patrick Hickey
Meet our OpenThinkers: Patrick Hickey
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3 Minute Thesis
2025 3 Minute Thesis finals live event recording
From the archives
Research profile: Bofu Li
Research profile: Bofu Li
PhD student researcher Bofu Li is reducing the deadly toxins in our drinking water
Research profile: Taylor Hersh
Research profile: Taylor Hersh
Research profile: Philip Joy
Research profile: Philip Joy
Research profile: Tristan Cleveland
Research profile: Tristan Cleveland
Research profile: Ines Hamam
Research profile: Ines Hamam
Research profile: Keisha Jefferies
Research profile: Keisha Jefferies
Research profile: Graham Gagnon
Research profile: Graham Gagnon
Faculty profile: Sherry Stewart
Faculty profile: Sherry Stewart
3MT: Former finalists share their secrets
3MT: Former finalists share their secrets
3MT: Jasmine Mah
3MT: Jasmine Mah
3MT: Joseph Orji
3MT: Joseph Orji
Profile: Loay Jabre
Profile: Loay Jabre
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