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Professor Taghrid Abou Hassan of Dalhousie’s Department of French is invested as a Knight in the Order of the French Academic Palms, a prestigious education award that celebrates the promotion of French language and culture.

In her leadership role with the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøStudent Pharmacy Society, Kristin Kaupp helped reshape a national student competition to make it more inclusive and constructive.

Through her Recreation degree (together with a Bachelor of Management), Lisa Odland discovered a new sport — goalball — and a new commitment to helping athletes who are blind and visually impaired.

Master of Nursing graduate and soon-to-be PhD student Keisha Jefferies has had the opportunity to explore health policy in Tanzania while working to make an impact on health care here at home.

Omer Malhi left Pakistan in 2012 and began practising as a dentist in St. John's, Newfoundland in 2016. His journey — and arrival — is the happy result of equal measures of planning and serendipity. There were also surprises and lessons to pass on to this year's graduating class.

Before she came from China to study Commerce at Dal, Wendi Zhao had never been to Canada. Now, she's graduating with a job in Halifax as an operations analyst for financial services firm CITCO and plans to stay permanently.

Shalan Joudry, who hails from Kespukwitk, the Mi’kmaw region of southwestern Nova Scotia, has been able to use her Master of Environmental Studies degree to link Indigenous learning and knowledge systems with academic ecology.

Four new Computer Science graduates share highlights from their time at Dal and give advice to current students.

Early in her Law degree, graduate Angela Simmonds had the opportunity to conduct community research on land claims in North and East Preston. Her acclaimed work sheds light on a largely unrecognized chapter in Canadian history: the contributions and struggles of the Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia.

At Spring Convocation ceremonies this week, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMedical School will graduate its largest ever class of MDs of African descent. Aided by programs like PLANS (Promoting Leadership in Health for African Nova Scotians), these grads are set to make their mark and address historic imbalances in our health-care system.