Editing Dalhousie University (section)

==Campuses==
[[File:Dalhousie University Medjuck Building.jpg|thumbnail|The Faculty of Architecture and Planning building is located at Sexton Campus. Sexton was the former campus of the [[Technical University of Nova Scotia]] before its merger with Dalhousie in 1997.]]
[[File:Dalhousie University Sexton Campus Sign.jpg|thumb|Sexton Campus sign]]
Dalhousie has three campuses within the [[Halifax Peninsula]] and a fourth, the Agricultural Campus, in Bible Hill, Nova Scotia.<ref name="History and Tradition"/>

Studley Campus in Halifax serves as the primary campus; it houses the majority of the university's academic buildings such as faculties, athletic facilities, and the university's Student Union Building.<ref name=camp>{{cite web|url=https://www.dal.ca/about/halifax-campuses.html|title=Halifax Campuses|publisher=Dalhousie University|access-date=11 May 2013|archive-date=4 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130604023553/http://www.dal.ca/about/halifax-campuses.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The campus is largely surrounded by residential neighbourhoods.

[[Robie Street]] divides it from the adjacent Carleton Campus, which houses the faculties of dentistry, medicine, and other health profession departments. The campus is adjacent to two large teaching hospitals affiliated with the school: the [[IWK Health Centre]] and the [[Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre]].<ref name=camp />

Sexton Campus in [[Downtown Halifax]] hosts the engineering, architecture and planning faculties. Sexton Campus served as the campus of the Technical University of Nova Scotia prior to amalgamation.<ref name=camp /> The Agricultural Campus in Bible Hill, a suburban community of [[Truro, Nova Scotia|Truro]], served as the campus for the Nova Scotia Agricultural College prior to its merger with Dalhousie in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dal.ca/about/agricultural-campus/about.html|title=About – Agricultural Campus|publisher=Dalhousie University|access-date=10 May 2013|archive-date=18 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518073008/http://www.dal.ca/about/agricultural-campus/about.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The university presently operates the largest academic library system in [[Atlantic Canada]], and hosts the headquarters for the [[Ocean Tracking Network]].

The buildings at Dalhousie vary in age from Hart House, which was completed in 1864, to the Collaborative Health Education Building, completed in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.library.dal.ca/duasc/buildings/chron.htm|title=The Buildings of Dalhousie University|access-date=10 May 2013|publisher=Dalhousie University|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110127154720/http://www.library.dal.ca/duasc/buildings/chron.htm|archive-date=27 January 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Reeder|first1=Matt|title=A hub to support health care's collaborative future|url=https://www.dal.ca/news/2015/12/02/a-space-to-support-health-care-s-collaborative-future.html|work=Dal News|date=1 December 2015|access-date=26 August 2017|archive-date=26 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826114134/http://www.dal.ca/news/2015/12/02/a-space-to-support-health-care-s-collaborative-future.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The original building of Dalhousie University was completed in 1824 on Halifax's [[Grand Parade (Halifax)|Grand Parade]].<ref name=orib>{{cite web|url=http://www.library.dal.ca/duasc/buildings/DalCollege.htm|title=Dalhousie College, Original (Grand Parade)|publisher=Dalhousie University|access-date=10 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100218120839/http://www.library.dal.ca/duasc/buildings/DalCollege.htm|archive-date=18 February 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> It was demolished in 1885 when the university outgrew the premises, and the City of Halifax sought possession of the entire Grand Parade. [[Halifax City Hall]] presently occupies the site of the original Dalhousie College.<ref name=orib />

===Libraries and museums===
The university has five libraries. The largest, [[Killam Library|Killam Memorial Library]], opened in 1971 and claims to be the largest academic library in [[Atlantic Canada]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://libraries.dal.ca/locations_services/locations/killam_memorial_library.html|title=Killam Memorial Library|publisher=Dalhousie University|access-date=10 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518040513/http://libraries.dal.ca/locations_services/locations/killam_memorial_library.html|archive-date=18 May 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> The W. K. Kellogg Health Science Library provides services largely for the faculties of dentistry, medicine, and other health professions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://libraries.dal.ca/locations_services/locations/w_k_kellogg_healthscienceslibrary.html|title=W. K. Kellogg Health Science Library|access-date=10 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130425020516/http://libraries.dal.ca/locations_services/locations/w_k_kellogg_healthscienceslibrary.html|archive-date=25 April 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Sexton Design & Technology Library is located within Sexton Campus. Its collection largely serves those in the faculties of engineering, architecture and planning, and houses the university's rare books collection.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://libraries.dal.ca/locations_services/locations/sexton_design_technologylibrary.html|title=Sexton Design & Technology Library|access-date=10 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513135639/http://libraries.dal.ca/locations_services/locations/sexton_design_technologylibrary.html|archive-date=13 May 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Sir James Dunn Law Library holds the university's collection of common law materials, legal periodicals, as well as books on international law, health law, and environmental law.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://libraries.dal.ca/locations_services/locations/sir_james_dunn_lawlibrary.html|title=Sir James Dunn Law Library|publisher=10 May 2013|access-date=11 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130531005018/http://libraries.dal.ca/locations_services/locations/sir_james_dunn_lawlibrary.html|archive-date=31 May 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> MacRae Library is located at the university's Agricultural Campus, and has the largest collection of agricultural resource material in Atlantic Canada.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://libraries.dal.ca/locations_services/locations/macrae_library.html|title=MacRae Library|access-date=10 May 2013|publisher=Dalhousie University|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130426062836/http://libraries.dal.ca/locations_services/locations/macrae_library.html|archive-date=26 April 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Dalhousie University Archives houses official records of, or relating to, or people/activities connected with Dalhousie University and its founding institutions. The archives also houses material related to theatre, business and labour in Nova Scotia. The collection consists of manuscripts, texts, photographs, audio-visual material, microfilm, music, and artifacts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/GetMuseumProfile.do?lang=en&chinCode=guaanp|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130616235504/http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/GetMuseumProfile.do?lang=en&chinCode=guaanp|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 June 2013|title=Dalhousie University Archives|publisher=Canadian Heritage Information Network|year=2009|access-date=11 June 2013}}</ref> The university's first library, Macdonald Memorial Library, was built after alumni raised funds on the death of professor [[Charles Macdonald (professor)|Charles Macdonald]], who had left the university $2,000 to buy books in English literature on his death in 1901.<ref name="dict">{{cite DCB |last1=Waite |first1=P.B. |title=MacDonald, Charles |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/macdonald_charles_13E.html |volume=13}}</ref>

The biology department operates the Thomas McCulloch Museum in its Life Sciences Centre (LSC). The most notable of the museum's exhibits include its preserved birds collection. Other collections include its Lorenzen ceramic mushrooms, its coral and shell collection, and its butterfly and insect collection.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://biotype.biology.dal.ca/museum/|title=McCulloch Museum|access-date=10 May 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040312202932/http://biotype.biology.dal.ca/museum/|archive-date=12 March 2004}}</ref> The museum's namesake [[Thomas McCulloch]] was a Scottish Presbyterian minister who served as Dalhousie's first president and created the Audubon mounted bird collection which is now housed at the museum.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://biotype.biology.dal.ca/museum/McCullochHistFrame/mcCullHistFrame.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040530095952/http://biotype.biology.dal.ca/museum/McCullochHistFrame/mcCullHistFrame.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 May 2004|title=The history of Thomas McCulloch's Life|publisher=Dalhousie University|access-date=10 May 2013}}</ref>

The Dalhousie Art Gallery is both a public gallery and an academic support unit housed since 1971 on the lowest level of the [[Dalhousie Arts Centre]]. Admission is free of charge. It is host to a permanent collection of over 1000 works.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Permanent Collection|url=http://artgallery.dal.ca/collection/|publisher=Dalhousie Art Gallery|access-date=13 July 2013|archive-date=10 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610202457/http://artgallery.dal.ca/collection/|url-status=live}}</ref> Some of the [[List of public art in Halifax, Nova Scotia|outdoor sculptures]] around the campus are part of this collection, such as the distinctive ''Marine Venus'' which has sat in the median of University Avenue since 1969.<ref>{{cite news|last=Schneidereit|first=Rebecca|title=Contemplating 'Marine Venus'|url=https://www.dal.ca/news/2008/06/06/marine.html|access-date=13 July 2013|newspaper=Dal News|date=6 June 2008|archive-date=26 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140626050218/http://www.dal.ca/news/2008/06/06/marine.html|url-status=live}}</ref> A notable exhibition from the Dalhousie Art Gallery includes "Archives of the Future" (March – April 2016) exploring the relationship between art creation and commerce with work by artists Zachary Gough, Dawn Georg, Sharlene Bamboat, [[Katie Vida]] and [[Dana Claxton]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/the-future-is-now/Content?oid=5276048|title=The Future is Now|last=Higgins|first=Kathleen|date=2016-03-17|website=The Coast Halifax News|access-date=2016-03-27|archive-date=24 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324140740/http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/the-future-is-now/Content?oid=5276048|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Sustainability===
Dalhousie University is actively involved in sustainability issues and has received a number of sustainability awards and recognition for academic programs, university operations, and research. In 2022, Dalhousie received a GOLD rating from [[AASHE STARS]] (Version 2.2). In 2009, the university signed the University and College Presidents' Climate Change Statement of Action for Canada to reduce [[Greenhouse gas emissions|emissions of greenhouse gases]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.climatechangeaction.ca/|title=Climate Change Statement of Action for Canada|date=14 May 2015|access-date=14 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150302193241/http://www.climatechangeaction.ca/|archive-date=2 March 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> Dalhousie is also a signatory of UNEP's International Declaration on Cleaner Production.<ref name=factsheet1>{{cite web|title=Sustainability at Dalhousie|url=https://www.dal.ca/content/dam/dalhousie/pdf/sustainability/SustainabilityFactSheet.pdf|publisher=Dalhousie University|access-date=2 December 2015|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304050929/http://www.dal.ca/content/dam/dalhousie/pdf/sustainability/SustainabilityFactSheet.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1999, the university signed the [[Talloires Declaration]], which committed Dalhousie and other higher education institutions to developing, creating, supporting, and maintaining sustainability.<ref name=factsheet1/>

In 2008, the College of Sustainability,<ref>{{cite web|title=College of Sustainability|url=https://www.dal.ca/faculty/sustainability.html|publisher=Dalhousie University|access-date=26 August 2017|archive-date=7 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707153135/https://www.dal.ca/faculty/sustainability.html|url-status=live}}</ref> the Office of Sustainability,<ref>{{cite web|title=Office of Sustainability|url=https://www.dal.ca/dept/sustainability.html|publisher=Dalhousie University|access-date=26 August 2017|archive-date=31 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170331075152/https://www.dal.ca/dept/sustainability.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and the Dalhousie Student Union Sustainability Office<ref>{{cite web|title=Dalhousie Student Union Sustainability Office|url=http://dsusustainabilityoffice.ca/|publisher=Dalhousie Student Union|access-date=14 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518083615/http://dsusustainabilityoffice.ca/|archive-date=18 May 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> were formed. During 2008, the President's Advisory Council on Sustainability was also created.  The council meets quarterly to discuss pan-university sustainability issues. Dalhousie's College of Sustainability offers an undergraduate Major in Environment, Sustainability and Society (ESS) integrating with seven bachelor's degrees and 40 subjects across five faculties.