Founded in 1818'

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Founded in 1818. One of Canadas G13
Universities. Full range of programs at graduate
and undergraduate level. Inspiring students in a
research intensive environment. Times HES 2008
Top 200 in the world.
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Faculties

• Architecture Planning
• Arts Social Sciences
• Computer Science
• Management
• Dentistry
• Engineering
• Graduate Studies
• Health Professions
• Law
• Medicine
• Science
• College of Continuing Education

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Numbers

• 12,000 Undergraduates
• 3,500 Graduate Students
• More than 1,000 Faculty
• Student to faculty ratio of 15 lowest in Canada
• Annual research funding exceeds 115 million

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Programs

• Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral in wide range of
  disciplines
• Professional Medicine, Dentistry, Architecture,
  Law, etc.
• Many students complete double majors/honours
• New model Environment, Sustainability and
  Society

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Research

• Individual faculty virtually all have research
  programs
• Institutional emphases
• Ocean Studies
• 350 PhD qualified scientists in local cluster
• Health Studies
• Research health centre for Atlantic Canada

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Research major projects

• Institute for Research in Materials (200
  researchers)
• Ocean Tracking Network (160 million world-wide)
• Marine Biodiversity
• CO2 Capture Storage (I-G-U partnership)

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Jeff Dahn, Physics Atmospheric Sci. Li-ion
batteries and fuel cells Award-winning
partnership with 3M 46 patents Impacts virtual
every cell phone and laptop computer. Approximat
ely 350 research papers Working group of 30
students and PDFs
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Axel Becke, Chemistry Computational
Chemistry Density Functional Theory
(DFT) 51,172 citations as of 13/11/2008 51,296
citations as of 14/11/2008 Author of first and
third most highly cited papers in all of
chemistry
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India connections Existing

• CIDA project on Boiler Emissions Upgrade
  Dalhousie University with Bengal Engineering
  College, Deemed University National Power
  Training Institutes and numerous generation
  companies.
• Water Resources Governance Dalhousie University
  with JSS Mahavidyapeetha (Engineering and Medical
  Colleges).
• Numerous other engineering collaborations.

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India connections Existing

• Social anthropology Pondicherry University and
  Dalhousie researchers collaborate and an
  agreement on graduate student training is being
  negotiated.
• Computer Science at Dalhousie has 3 agreements
• Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore
• University of Mysore
• PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore

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India connections To be built

• Ocean Tracking Network. Void in the Indian
  Ocean.

From http//oceantrackingnetwork.org
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India connections To be built.

• We are interested in exploring collaborative
  undergraduate programs in
• Engineering Computer Science
• Statistics Mathematics of finance
• Graduate programs in
• Internetworking MBA with Internship
• Marine management Just about every discipline