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Craig C. Burton, BEng, a sustainable design consultant and high-performance building modeler with eight years’ experience working in the U.S. and United Kingdom, has joined PositivEnergy Practice to lead the Clean Technology Team. Founded in early 2010, PositivEnergy Practice (PEP) now has 22 employees. The firm, which is based in Chicago, conceives, designs, implements and […]

Catherine Chow, MBA, and Michael Hudson are engaged! They are pleased to announce to family and friends that they are engaged to be married in the fall of 2012. Although the couple went to the same high school, they didn’t start dating until after they met during the MBA/MMSc program at Ryerson University in Toronto. […]

Marianne Stanford, PhD (Microbiology and Immunology), married the love of her life, Craig, on September 5, 2009. She moved back to Halifax to start and exciting and challenging job as Director of Research at Immunovaccine, Inc. in November 2010. On July 14, 2011 Marianne and Craig welcomed their son McKinley Craig Stanford Bleeks into the […]

Jeremy Kohm, BA, after a short ESL teaching career, became a professional advertising and editorial photographer. He says he has to credit Dal’s English program as it helped him develop his critical thinking and his ability to deconstruct narratives – the skills he relies on when approaching his photography work. Jeremy was recently named one […]

Gisele (Melanson) Thibodeau, BScN, received the 2011 Nursing the Future Torch Award in recognition of outstanding leadership in nursing. The Torch Award honours a senior nurse who supports, encourages and seeks to advance new nurses in the workplace. Gisele is a clinical instructor at Dalhousie University School of Nursing – Yarmouth site.

Morgan Douglas-Alexander, BA, Honours Cert.’90, was married to Bruce Alexander in December 2011. She is working as a pedagogical counselor with an Inuit school board in Nunavik, Northern Quebec. Morgan works in 14 remote communities (reached by plane only), working with the teachers in the secondary English sector for both second-language and social sciences. She […]

Kathryn Harvey, BA, MLIS’05, formerly Archives Specialist in Dalhousie’s Archives and Special Collections (2003-2009), has recently been granted continuing appointment and promotion at the University of Guelph where she moved in 2009 to assume duties as Head of Archival and Special Collections (ASC) within the library. She has her hands full with exciting challenges ahead […]

Cheryl LeBlanc-Weldon, BA, BEd’89, graduated from Mount Saint Vincent University in May 2011 with an MEd in literacy. She won the Governor General’s Gold Medal for Academic Excellence and membership in Kappa Gamma Pi, which is based on scholarship, leadership and service. Her husband Trevor, daughter Julia, sister Susan, and father Danny were in proud […]

Pamela J. Goulding, Q.C., LLB, has been appointed to the position of judge of the Provincial Court of Newfoundland and Labrador. Called to the Bar of Newfoundland and Labrador in 1986, Pamela has held the position of Crown Attorney and in 2001 became the Senior Crown Attorney in charge of the Special Prosecutions Office. She […]

Paula Altenburg, BA, recently left a management position with an aerospace company to write fiction full time. She writes urban fantasy and paranormal romance under her own name, Paula Altenburg, and under a pseudonym as co-author Taylor Keating and she is releasing two new books this year. One is with MacMillan/Tor, one of the major […]