A $500,000 donation from Great-West Life, London Life and Canada Life …

When Danielle Dubé (BMgmt’10) qualified last January for the upcoming summer Olympics, it marked a pinnacle in a sailing career that she’d once believed was over. The 25-year-old became the first Nova Scotian to qualify for the London 2012 Olympic Games during a World Cup event in Miami.

The DeGroote family donated $500,000 to lead off a permanent summer internship fund: the new DeGroote Family and Bermudian Alumni Dalhousie/Bermunda Institute of Ocean Science Fund.

A $2 million donation to the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation (DMRF) …

When Rose Cousins (BScK’99) writes a song, it’s a solitary process: alone, with her guitar, pulling chords and phrases out of the ether to communicate an idea from the heart. To make it truly sing, though, takes a community.

Stewart Allen, a self-made businessman who made it to the top with a Grade 11 education, is turning his philanthropic sights on making a university education accessible to deserving students outside his immediate circle with the first generation of Allen scholars graduated and settling into their professional careers.

The newly announced reachAbility Scholarship in Law will make a gift of $10,000 every year for the next four years to Dalhousie University to establish an entrance scholarship for students with disabilities at the Schulich School of Law.

The Shell Experiential Learning Fund boosts recruitment of Dalhousie students by investing $500,000 in a three-year initiative to ensure that science, business and engineering students receive the best possible learning.

Roméo Dallaire gives $60,000 Delta Prize for Global Understanding to the Child Soldier Initiative, which he founded. The initiative is dedicated to stopping the use of child soldiers across the world.