Top‑tier leadership: New Dalhousie‑McCall MacBain scholarship cohort announced - Dal News - Dalhousie University

The Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences will welcome this fall McCall MacBain Scholar Rajan Minocha-McKenney. He will enter the Master's of Dental Sciences (Thesis) program, researching the interaction of biomaterials on tissue and bone regeneration in the lab run by Professor Jake Barralet. Minocha-McKenney graduated from Mount Allison University in New Brunswick with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry. Since graduation, he has been pursuing a Global Affairs Canada internship at IPB University in Indonesia. It is the second year in a row that a Master's of Dental Sciences (Thesis) student wins a McCall MacBain scholarship. The McCall MacBain Scholars program is Canada’s most comprehensive leadership-based scholarship for master’s and professional studies. The award covers tuition and fees, living expenses, mentorship, coaching and a leadership program for 30 incoming students at McGill. To learn more about the 2026 cohort read the article in the McGill Reporter.

McMaster University is poised to become a global leader in kinesiology and healthspan optimization, thanks to a transformative $50-million gift from alumna Dr. Marcy McCall MacBain, BSc ’00, LLD ’24 and John McCall MacBain, with the McCall MacBain Foundation. It is the largest philanthropic investment in kinesiology in Canadian university history. The endowed gift will establish the McCall MacBain Kinesiology and Healthspan Institute, four McCall MacBain Chairs in Healthy Living, and the Marcy C. McCall Kinesiology Scholarships.

Julia Margaret Cameron, photographic portrait of Charles Darwin, 1868. From the D. Hall Darwin-Wallace Collection. Rare books, documents, letters and images from famous evolutionary biologists are on display this fall at the U of C’s Nickle Galleries.

For more than 150 years, a reported 16-minute train delay in Exeter, England, was cited as a possible early example of a solar storm disrupting human technology. But a railway timetable revealed a problem with the story: the railway line in question did not exist in 1841. According to a report published by ScienceDaily on October 21, 2026, researchers have now traced the incident to October 18, 1848, using historical railway records, newspaper accounts and measurements of Earth’s magnetic field. The findings were published in the journal Space Weather. The train delay that could not have happened in 1841The mystery originated in an account published anonymously in the scientific journal Nature on October 5, 1871. It described a “very intense magnetic disturbance” on October 18, 1841, which allegedly interfered with railway telegraph equipment in Exeter, a city in southwest England. According to the account, the disturbance prevented railway staff from establishing whether the track ahead, near the village of Starcross, was clear. As a result, the scheduled 10.05 pm express train from Exeter towards Newton Abbot was held up for 16 minutes.