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• Grad profile: A new beginning on the farm
  Jacqueline Fogel traded the big city for Truro, a leap of faith through which she found a new calling in conservation and animal health.
  
• Grad profile: From combat boots to crop science
  From deployment in Afghanistan to the greenhouses of academia, Jeff Robinson has charted an extraordinary path — trading combat boots for a lab coat in pursuit of a deeper understanding of plant science.
  
• Fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is worsening gender‑based violence against women
  As violence continues to displace people in the eastern DRC, women face a heightened risk of sexual and gender-based violence.
  
• Grad profile: Cultured ambitions
  Blending history with hands-on global experience, Myles Sweet is creating a future in artisanal cheesemaking that draws inspiration from both his family’s dairy roots in Nova Scotia and his international education in food business.
  

• Fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is worsening gender‑based violence against women
  As violence continues to displace people in the eastern DRC, women face a heightened risk of sexual and gender-based violence.
  
• When friendship is treated as essential, what happens to young adults who don’t have any?
  A new study aims to understand how adults without friends experience and move through life.
  
• The MacEachen Institute, 10 years in: Dal's policy powerhouse caps decade with top book prize
  MacEachen Institute Director Kevin Quigley and former students won the Donner Prize for the best public policy book in Canada this year. Discover how the institute has empowered student researchers and shaped major policy debates over the past decade.
  
• MAGA’s ‘war on empathy’ might not be original, but it is dangerous
  MAGA’s distaste for empathy is less a well-meaning critique than an all-out war as figures like Elon Musk and Jordan Peterson incorrectly — and dangerously — dismiss it as weakness.
  
• Michelle Wang's remarkable path: From local activism to national recognition
  Discover how this recent Dal grad grew from a quiet student into a McCall MacBain Scholarship winner, driven by her passion for community service and academic excellence.
  
• Canada’s Africa strategy is a landmark moment for Canada‑Africa relations, but still needs work
  Canada has taken an important first step towards a more strategic, intentional and mutually beneficial relationship with Africa. But it must provide more concrete plans for its implementation.