They are champions and advocates for students. They provide outstanding service to students. They are mentors to students. Meet the three recipients of the 2019 Rosemary Gill Awards, Dal's top honour for supporting students outside the classroom.

Watch speeches from Sandra L. Irving and The Right Honourable Micha毛lle Jean, both of whom received honorary degrees as part of Spring Convocation ceremonies this year.

Whistleblower Edward Snowden earned international infamy when he leaked secret documents that revealed the extent of global surveillance culture. Last week, speaking via livestream to a packed house as part of Dal Alumni Days, Snowden discussed the rise of the surveillance state 鈥� and what a 鈥渄igital arms race鈥� means for our future.

For Sheila Blair-Reid, building community among Dal鈥檚 135,000 alumni is work that reflects a career that鈥檚 been all about the power of making connections.

PhD student Martha Paynter is among a very select group of "audacious, original, and forward-thinking" scholars picked from a pool of hundreds of candidates from universities in Canada and abroad as a 2019 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar.