Dalhousie University

Dalhousie University, commonly shortened to Dal, is a public research university in Nova Scotia, Canada, and a member of the U15 group of research-intensive Canadian universities.戴尔豪斯大学（Dalhousie University，简称 Dal）是加拿大新斯科舍省的一所公立研究型大学，也是加拿大 U15 研究型大学联盟的成员。

Founded in 1818 by George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie and Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, it is the third-oldest university in Nova Scotia and the fifth-oldest in Canada.该校由第九代戴尔豪斯伯爵、新斯科舍省总督乔治·拉姆齐于 1818 年创办，是新斯科舍省第三古老、加拿大第五古老的大学。

It places 298th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings and operates four campuses, three of them in Halifax and one at Bible Hill in Truro.学校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 298，设有四个校区，其中三个位于哈利法克斯，一个位于特鲁罗的拜博山。

History

• In the early 19th century, George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie and ninth Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, proposed a college in Halifax open to students of any class or creed.19 世纪初，第九代戴尔豪斯伯爵兼第九任新斯科舍省总督乔治·拉姆齐提议在哈利法克斯创办一所不论阶级与信仰、面向所有求学者的高等学府。

• Financing came largely from customs duties collected by a previous Lieutenant Governor, John Coape Sherbrooke, during the War of 1812 occupation of Castine, Maine, and he invested £7,000 as an initial endowment and reserved £3,000 for the college building.办学资金主要来自前任总督约翰·科普·舍布鲁克在 1812 年战争期间占领缅因州卡斯廷时征收的关税，他投入 7000 英镑作为初始捐赠基金，并预留 3000 英镑用于校舍建设。

• Dalhousie College was established in 1818, but it faltered soon afterwards when Ramsay left Halifax to serve as Governor General of British North America.戴尔豪斯学院于 1818 年创立，但拉姆齐随后离任哈利法克斯、赴任英属北美总督，学校因而一度陷于停顿。

• In 1821 the Nova Scotia House of Assembly formally incorporated Dalhousie College by an Act of Incorporation.1821 年，新斯科舍省议会以《特许状法案》正式核准戴尔豪斯学院立案。

• The college held no classes until 1838, when its board persuaded Thomas McCulloch to leave Pictou Academy and take charge of the failing institution.学院直到 1838 年才开办第一堂课，此前校董会说服托马斯·麦卡洛克离开皮克图学院，接手这所濒临停办的学校。

• Thomas McCulloch, a Presbyterian minister and naturalist, became Dalhousie's first principal and created a chair of natural history covering geology, mineralogy, botany and zoology.长老会牧师兼博物学家托马斯·麦卡洛克出任戴尔豪斯首任校长，并创设自然史讲席，讲授地质学、矿物学、植物学与动物学。

• In 1841 an Act of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly conferred university powers on Dalhousie.1841 年，新斯科舍省议会的一项法案授予戴尔豪斯颁授学位的大学权力。

• After McCulloch's death the college declined once more and was reorganized as a high school in 1848.麦卡洛克去世后，学院再度衰落，并于 1848 年被改组为一所中学。

• In 1863 the college reopened under a new legislative act that added the word University to its name, opening with six professors and one tutor.1863 年，学院依一项新法案复办，名称中增列“大学”一词，复办时仅有 6 名教授与 1 名助教。

• When Dalhousie awarded its first degrees in 1866, its student body consisted of 28 male degree students and 28 occasional students.1866 年学校颁授首批学位时，学生由 28 名攻读学位的男生与 28 名旁听生组成。

• In 1879, amid talk of closure, the New York publisher George Munro began donating to the university and is credited with rescuing it, and Dalhousie now observes George Munro Day on the first Friday of each February.1879 年，在学校因经费拮据而传出停办之际，有纽约出版商背景的乔治·芒罗开始捐资，被视为挽救学校的人；学校至今每年 2 月的第一个星期五过“乔治·芒罗日”。

• Margaret Florence Newcombe became Dalhousie's first female graduate in 1885, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree.1885 年，玛格丽特·弗洛伦斯·纽科姆成为戴尔豪斯首位女性毕业生，获文学学士学位。

• Originally located on the Grand Parade now occupied by Halifax City Hall, the college moved in 1886 to the Carleton Campus and spread gradually to the Studley Campus.学校原址位于如今哈利法克斯市政厅所在的阅兵广场，1886 年迁至卡尔顿校区，其后逐步扩展至斯塔德利校区。

• From 1889 to 1962 the Halifax Conservatory was affiliated with Dalhousie and awarded its degrees through the university.1889 至 1962 年间，哈利法克斯音乐学院附属于戴尔豪斯，并通过该校颁授学位。

• In 1920 a fire destroyed several buildings at the University of King's College in Windsor, Nova Scotia, and a Carnegie Foundation grant enabled King's to relocate to Halifax and enter a lasting partnership with Dalhousie.1920 年，新斯科舍省温莎的国王学院多栋建筑毁于火灾，卡内基基金会的资助使国王学院得以迁往哈利法克斯，并与戴尔豪斯结成延续至今的合作。

• On 1 April 1997 provincial legislation amalgamated Dalhousie with the nearby Technical University of Nova Scotia, creating the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Computer Science and the Faculty of Architecture and Planning.1997 年 4 月 1 日，省级立法使戴尔豪斯与邻近的新斯科舍技术大学合并，由此组建了工程学院、计算机科学学院与建筑及规划学院。

• From 1997 to 2000 the former Technical University of Nova Scotia operated as a constituent college called Dalhousie Polytechnic of Nova Scotia, or DalTech, until the collegiate system was dissolved.1997 至 2000 年间，原新斯科舍技术大学作为名为“新斯科舍戴尔豪斯理工学院”（简称 DalTech）的附属学院运作，直至该学院制解散。

• On 1 September 2012 the Nova Scotia Agricultural College merged into Dalhousie to form a new Faculty of Agriculture at Bible Hill, Nova Scotia.2012 年 9 月 1 日，新斯科舍农业学院并入戴尔豪斯，在新斯科舍省拜博山组建了新的农学院。

• In 1999 Dalhousie signed the Talloires Declaration on sustainability, and in 2008 it established a sustainability office.1999 年戴尔豪斯签署关于可持续发展的《塔乐礼宣言》，2008 年又设立可持续发展办公室。

• In 2022 the university received a GOLD rating from AASHE STARS, and in 2025 it locked out about 1,000 members of the Dalhousie Faculty Association over a contract dispute.2022 年学校获 AASHE STARS 金级评级；2025 年因合同争议，校方将约 1000 名戴尔豪斯教师协会成员拒之门外。

• University governance is conducted through a Board of Governors and a Senate whose present powers date from the Unofficial Consolidation of an Act for the Regulation and Support of Dalhousie College in Chapter 24 of the Acts of 1863, supplemented 11 times and most recently in 1995.学校的治理由校董会与评议会负责，其现行权力源自 1863 年法案第 24 章《戴尔豪斯学院管理与资助法》的非正式合并文本，此后历经 11 次补充，最近一次在 1995 年。

• John Forrest was Dalhousie's longest-serving president, holding the office from 1885 to 1911.约翰·福雷斯特是戴尔豪斯任职时间最长的校长，任期为 1885 至 1911 年。

• Kim Brooks became the 13th president of the university in August 2023.金·布鲁克斯于 2023 年 8 月出任学校第 13 任校长。

• The university's first library, the Macdonald Memorial Library, was built after alumni raised funds on the death of the professor Charles Macdonald, who left the university $2,000 to buy books in English literature when he died in 1901.学校的第一座图书馆“麦克唐纳纪念图书馆”由校友募资兴建，以纪念 1901 年去世时留下 2000 美元供学校购置英国文学书籍的查尔斯·麦克唐纳教授。

Academics

• Dalhousie is a publicly funded research university, a member of Universities Canada and of the U15 group of research-intensive Canadian universities.戴尔豪斯是一所公立研究型大学，是加拿大大学协会与加拿大 U15 研究型大学联盟的成员。

• It offers more than 200 degree programs and over 4,000 courses across 13 undergraduate, graduate and professional faculties.学校在 13 个本科、研究生与专业学院中开设 200 多个学位项目和 4000 多门课程。

• As of 2022 there were 20,970 students enrolled at the university.截至 2022 年，学校在校生为 20,970 人。

• The Faculty of Science, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Schulich School of Law, Faculty of Management and Faculty of Computer Science sit chiefly on the Studley Campus.理学院、人文与社会科学学院、舒立克法学院、管理学院与计算机科学学院主要位于斯塔德利校区。

• The Carleton Campus houses the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Dentistry and the Faculty of Health Professions.卡尔顿校区设有医学院、牙医学院与卫生职业学院。

• The Sexton Campus hosts the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Architecture and Planning, and the Agricultural Campus in Bible Hill holds the Faculty of Agriculture.塞克斯顿校区设有工程学院与建筑及规划学院，拜博山的农业校区则设农学院。

• The university also maintains a Faculty of Graduate Studies and, as of 2011, admitted first-year undergraduates with a secondary school average of 85 per cent.学校另设研究生院；2011 年录取的本科一年级新生中学平均成绩为 85 分。

• Canadian students may draw on the Nova Scotia Student Assistance Program and Canada Student Loans and Grants through federal and provincial governments.加拿大本地学生可申请新斯科舍省学生援助计划以及由联邦与省政府提供的加拿大学生贷款与助学金。

• Medical and dental education is concentrated on the Carleton and Sexton sites, adjoining the IWK Health Centre and the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre.医学与牙学教育集中于卡尔顿与塞克斯顿两地，紧邻 IWK 健康中心与伊丽莎白二世女王健康科学中心。

• Dalhousie houses the headquarters of the Ocean Tracking Network, a research effort using implanted acoustic transmitters to study fish migration.戴尔豪斯是海洋追踪网络的总部所在，该研究计划通过植入式声学发射器研究鱼类洄游。

• The Aquatron laboratory groups the university's marine research pools, wet laboratory and benthic flume.阿夸特龙实验室汇集了学校的海洋研究水池、湿实验室与底栖水槽。

• In 2011 the university and WWF-Canada created the Conservation Legacy for Oceans to fund scholarships and curriculum development for marine research.2011 年，学校与世界自然基金会加拿大分会创设“海洋保护传承”项目，为海洋研究提供奖学金与课程开发资助。

• In 2016 Dalhousie partnered with Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Prince Edward Island to form the Ocean Frontier Institute.2016 年，戴尔豪斯与纽芬兰纪念大学、爱德华王子岛大学合作组建了海洋边疆研究所。

• The Faculty of Engineering runs the Ocean Research Centre Atlantic for naval and offshore engineering, while the Schulich School of Law operates the Marine and Environmental Law Institute.工程学院设有面向海军与海洋工程的大西洋海洋研究中心，舒立克法学院则运营海洋与环境法研究所。

• The Department of Political Science operates the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, focused on Canadian and American foreign, security and defence policy.政治学系设有外交政策研究中心，聚焦加拿大与美国的外交、安全与防务政策。

• For the 2017-18 fiscal year the university reported revenues of 697.354 million and expenses of664.274 million, together with total endowment revenue of $481.372 million.2017 至 2018 财年，学校报告营业收入约 6.97 亿加元、支出约 6.64 亿加元，捐赠基金收入约 4.81 亿加元。

• The Senate is responsible for academic standards, admission requirements and qualifications for degrees, and consists of 73 positions granted to faculty representatives, academic administrators and student representatives.评议会负责学术标准、入学要求与学位资格，由分配给教师代表、学术管理人员与学生代表的 73 个席位组成。

• The university's registrar provides scholarships to reward academic merit, community involvement and leadership as a form of financial assistance.学校教务长办公室设有多项奖学金，以学业成绩、社区参与和领导力为评选依据，作为资助学生的一种形式。

• Dalhousie is a founding member of the Halifax Marine Research Institute, founded on 2 June 2011 as a partnership between private industry, government and post-secondary institutions.戴尔豪斯是哈利法克斯海洋研究所的创始成员，该研究所于 2011 年 6 月 2 日成立，是私营企业、政府与高等院校之间的合作机构。

Campus

• Dalhousie has three campuses on the Halifax Peninsula and a fourth, the Agricultural Campus, in Bible Hill, Nova Scotia.戴尔豪斯在哈利法克斯半岛上设有三个校区，第四个校区即农业校区位于新斯科舍省拜博山。

• The Studley Campus in Halifax is the primary campus, holding most academic buildings, athletic facilities and the Student Union Building, largely surrounded by residential neighbourhoods.哈利法克斯的斯塔德利校区是主校区，容纳大部分教学楼、体育设施与学生联合会大楼，四周多为居民区。

• Robie Street separates the Studley Campus from the adjacent Carleton Campus, which houses dentistry, medicine and health professions and adjoins the IWK Health Centre and the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre.罗比街将斯塔德利校区与相邻的卡尔顿校区隔开，后者设有牙医学、医学与卫生专业，并毗邻 IWK 健康中心与伊丽莎白二世女王健康科学中心。

• The Sexton Campus in downtown Halifax hosts engineering, architecture and planning, and had served as the campus of the Technical University of Nova Scotia before the 1997 amalgamation.位于哈利法克斯市中心的塞克斯顿校区设有工程、建筑与规划学科，1997 年合并前曾是原新斯科舍技术大学的校园。

• Campus buildings range in age from Hart House, completed in 1864, to the Collaborative Health Education Building, completed in 2015.校内建筑年代跨度从 1864 年建成的哈特楼到 2015 年建成的协作健康教育大楼。

• The original Dalhousie building was completed in 1824 on Halifax's Grand Parade and was demolished in 1885 when the university outgrew it.戴尔豪斯最初的校舍 1824 年建成于哈利法克斯阅兵广场，1885 年因学校规模扩大而被拆除。

• The university operates five libraries, the largest being the Killam Memorial Library, which opened in 1971 and claims to be the largest academic library in Atlantic Canada.学校设有五座图书馆，其中最大的基勒姆纪念图书馆于 1971 年启用，号称加拿大海洋省份最大的学术图书馆。

• The Dalhousie Art Gallery, opened in 1971 in the Dalhousie Arts Centre, holds a permanent collection of more than 1,000 works, including the Marine Venus sculpture that has stood on University Avenue since 1969.1971 年在戴尔豪斯艺术中心开放的戴尔豪斯美术馆拥有 1000 多件永久藏品，其中包括自 1969 年起矗立于大学大道的雕塑“海洋维纳斯”。

• The university's museums include the Thomas McCulloch Museum in the Life Sciences Centre, known for its preserved bird collection begun by McCulloch.学校博物馆包括生命科学中心内的托马斯·麦卡洛克博物馆，以麦卡洛克开创的鸟类标本收藏著称。

• Dalhousie provides residence accommodation on its Halifax campuses, and the IWK Health Centre and Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre serve as its affiliated teaching hospitals.戴尔豪斯在哈利法克斯各校区提供宿舍住宿，IWK 健康中心与伊丽莎白二世女王健康科学中心则为其附属教学医院。

Reputation

• Dalhousie places 298th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.戴尔豪斯在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 298。

• In the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings the university is placed in the 351-375 band.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，学校位列 351 至 375 区间。

• It is placed 410th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking.在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，学校位列第 410。

• The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities places Dalhousie in the 301-400 band and between 11th and 15th in Canada.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名将戴尔豪斯列入 301 至 400 区间，在加拿大位列第 11 至 15 名。

• In QS's 2022 graduate employability ranking the university ranked 301-500 in the world and 9-17 in Canada.在 QS 2022 年毕业生就业能力排名中，学校位列世界 301 至 500 区间、加拿大第 9 至 17 名。

• Maclean's ranked Dalhousie ninth in its 2026 Medical-Doctoral university rankings.《麦克林》杂志在 2026 年医学博士类大学排名中将戴尔豪斯列为第 9。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 107,772 research works that have attracted 7,891,187 citations.据 OpenAlex 统计，学校已产出 107,772 项研究成果，累计被引用 7,891,187 次。

• In 2018 Research Infosource placed Dalhousie 15th among Canada's top 50 research universities, with a sponsored research income of $150.038 million in 2017.2018 年 Research Infosource 将戴尔豪斯列为其加拿大前 50 研究型大学榜单的第 15 位，2017 年的赞助科研收入为 1.50038 亿加元。

• Dalhousie counts a Nobel laureate among its graduates, the astrophysicist Arthur B. McDonald, who shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics.戴尔豪斯的毕业生中有 1 位诺贝尔奖得主，即天体物理学家阿瑟·麦克唐纳，他分享了 2015 年诺贝尔物理学奖。

• In 2007 The Scientist placed Dalhousie first in the international category of its Best Places to Work in Academia list.2007 年《科学家》杂志在“学术界最佳工作场所”榜单的国际类别中将戴尔豪斯列为第一。

Student life

• The university's motto is Ora et Labora, adopted in 1870 from the Earl of Dalhousie's motto to replace the original Forsan, which is Latin for perhaps.学校校训为「Ora et Labora」，1870 年取自戴尔豪斯伯爵的箴言，取代了原校训「Forsan」（拉丁语意为“或许”）。

• The original motto, Forsan, came from Virgil's Aeneid and first appeared in the first Dalhousie Gazette of 1869.原校训「Forsan」出自维吉尔的《埃涅阿斯纪》，最早见于 1869 年创刊的第一期《戴尔豪斯报》。

• The student body is represented by two unions, the Dalhousie Student Union for the general student population and the Dalhousie Association for Graduate Students for graduate students.学生由两个学生会代表，即以全体学生为对象的戴尔豪斯学生会，以及代表研究生的戴尔豪斯研究生协会。

• The main student newspaper, The Dalhousie Gazette, was founded in 1869 and claims to be the oldest student-run newspaper in North America.主要学生报纸《戴尔豪斯报》创刊于 1869 年，自称北美历史最悠久的学生自办报纸。

• The campus radio station began as a radio club in 1964, became CKDU in 1975, started FM broadcasting in 1985 and took its present frequency 88.1 in 2006.校园广播站 1964 年以广播俱乐部起家，1975 年成为 CKDU，1985 年开始调频广播，2006 年启用现在的 88.1 频率。

• Dalhousie students have created and taken part in more than 320 clubs and societies, and the university holds a Society Fair at the start of each fall and winter semester.戴尔豪斯学生创办并参与了 320 多个社团，学校在每年秋季与冬季学期伊始举办社团博览会。

• The varsity teams, the Tigers, compete mainly in the Atlantic University Sport conference of U Sports, in basketball, hockey, soccer, swimming, track and field, cross country running and volleyball.校队“老虎队”主要参加 U Sports 下属的大西洋大学体育联盟，项目包括篮球、冰球、足球、游泳、田径、越野跑与排球。

• The Agricultural Campus fields its own varsity team, the Dalhousie Rams, which competes in the Atlantic Collegiate Athletic Association of the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association.农业校区拥有自己的校队“戴尔豪斯公羊队”，参加加拿大学院体育协会下属的大西洋学院体育协会。

• More than 2,500 students take part in competitive clubs, intramural sport leagues and tournaments.有 2500 多名学生参加竞技社团、校内体育联赛与锦标赛。

Notable people

• The astrophysicist Arthur B. McDonald, who earned a BSc at Dalhousie in 1964 and an MSc in 1965, shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for showing that neutrinos change identity and have mass.天体物理学家阿瑟·麦克唐纳 1964 年在戴尔豪斯获理学学士、1965 年获理学硕士，因证明中微子会改变身份并具有质量而分享 2015 年诺贝尔物理学奖。

• Donald O. Hebb, a psychologist who studied at Dalhousie, helped advance the field of neuropsychology.曾在戴尔豪斯求学的心理学家唐纳德·赫布推动了神经心理学的发展。

• Kathryn D. Sullivan, an alumna, became the first American woman to walk in space.校友凯瑟琳·苏利文成为第一位太空行走的美国女性。

• Jeff Dahn, an alumnus, is one of the world's foremost researchers in lithium-ion battery chemistry.校友杰夫·达恩是世界顶尖的锂离子电池化学研究者之一。

• Three Prime Ministers of Canada attended Dalhousie - R. B. Bennett, Joe Clark and Brian Mulroney.加拿大有 3 位总理曾就读戴尔豪斯，分别是理查德·贝内特、乔·克拉克与布赖恩·马尔罗尼。

• Bertha Wilson, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, graduated from Dalhousie Law School.加拿大最高法院首位女性大法官伯莎·威尔逊毕业于戴尔豪斯法学院。

• Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables, studied at Dalhousie, and Charles Peter McColough, an alumnus, served as president and chief executive of Xerox.《绿山墙的安妮》作者露西·莫德·蒙哥马利曾在戴尔豪斯求学；校友查尔斯·彼得·麦科洛曾任施乐公司总裁兼首席执行官。

• Sean Durfy, an alumnus, was chief executive of WestJet, and Graham Day, also an alumnus, was chief executive of British Shipbuilders.校友西恩·杜菲曾任西捷航空首席执行官；同为校友的格雷厄姆·戴曾任英国造船公司首席执行官。

• Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada, and Erin O'Toole, former leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, are Dalhousie alumni.加拿大绿党党首伊丽莎白·梅与加拿大保守党前党首艾林·奥图尔均为戴尔豪斯的校友。