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Decarbonizing Dalhousie's Investment Porfolio
(2024-04-05)Dalhousie University faces a pivotal moment to realign its investment portfolio with its core values of sustainability and responsibility. This proposal advocates for a comprehensive approach to decarbonizing investments, ... -
The Harana Singers of Nova Scotia: Transnationalism, cultural identity, and collective music-making in a Filipino choir
(2023-05)The Harana Singers of Nova Scotia is a choir of mostly Filipinos, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Many studies have been conducted on Filipino migration and occupation (Gardiner Barber, 2008; Reyes, 2005), but little research ... -
Sober Sociability: How non-drinking students navigate outside the norm
(2023-05)Drinking culture on campuses has been written about for decades, and drinking students see drinking culture as a means of forming and maintaining friendships, socializing in large groups and vital in their university ... -
Connecting Through Faith: An Analysis of Dalhousie and Kings Religious Societies
(2023-05)In Canadian society today, there is a growing problem of university dropouts and deteriorating mental health conditions in university students with a leading cause being loneliness. This qualitative sociological study ... -
Why This Metamorphosis?
(2023-03)“Why This Metamorphosis?” investigates ideas of immigrant longing, loss, and love, by examining second-generation American writer Jhumpa Lahiri’s work, and particularly too, her radical and courageous decision to abandon ... -
A Conversation with Selin: Meaning, Truth, and the Academic/Personal Divide in The Idiot by Elif Batuman
(2023)Through a blend of critical analysis and personal narrative, this essay explores frameworks of meaning-making and their place in a student’s life using The Idiot by Elif Batuman as a touchstone text. In this work, my own ... -
Intergenerational Trauma and Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
(Dalhousie University, 2023-02-28)