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Alumni News
Dal Alum on Green-Gifting this Holiday Season
Rachael Delano (BA’18), programs administrator at Kind Krafts, holds free workshops teaching participants how to make repurposed and sustainable gifts to reduce cost and environmental impact.
Jenny Benson (BA’07, MA’09) enters the Blue Nose Marathon’s charity challenge.
Dal alumna Jenny Benson (BA’07, MA’09) and President of the Aninga Project, prepares for the Blue Nose Marathon to fundraise for the charity.
Jeremy Dutcher (BA’13) reaches across generations and rediscovers ancestral voices.
Alum Jeremy Dutcher (BA’13), an operatic tenor and composer, is releasing an album called Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa that combines his ancestral voices with classical and electronic music.
Alumna to host Power & Politics on CBC
Award-winning broadcast journalist Vassy Kapelos (MA’06) will take over as the host of CBC’s Power and Politics in March 2018.
Tigers Volleyball alum Mota inks pro deal overseas
In her first year after graduation, Marisa Mota’s (BA’17, UCERT (Disability Management)’17) has signed a professional contract with Eurosped of the Netherlands Women’s Volleyball League.
George Elliott Clarke speaks to the Globe and Mail ahead of performance
George Elliott Clarke (Ma’89, LLD’99) spoke with the Globe and Mail leading up to his performance of Dalhousie’s bicentennial poem at City Hall.
Dal connections named to Order of Canada
Alumni Catherine Anne Martin (BA (Theatre)’79) and Raymond Murphy (BScPH’73), as well as four others with connections to Dalhousie, are among the most recent Order of Canada appointments.
Forbes cites van Ginhoven’s success as female social entrepeneur
Kristen van Ginhoven (BA’96), founder and artistic director of WAM Theatre Company in Lenox, Mass., is praised for her ‘abundance mindset’ in an article suggesting new year’s resolutions for female social entrepreneurs.
Dal alumni on list of 100 powerful women in Canada
Dalhousie alumni were recognized as Canada’s Most Powerful Women – Top 100 in 2017 by Women’s Executive Network. List includes Sara Austin (BA’98), Christine Cooper (MBA’99), Sandy Sharman (MBA’03), Caroline Zayid (LLB’88, BA’85, BSc’82) and Maike van Niekerk (BScN’17), plus Ulrike Bahr-Gedalia.
Lucy Smith inducted to NS Sport Hall of Fame 2017
Lucy Smith (BA’90) was inducted to the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame on November 10, 2017. Smith ran cross country and track for Dalhousie with coach Al Yarr.