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Dr. Esteve Hassan observes as two students in a computer electronics lab read code on laptops.

Gut check: computer science leading AI health care innovation

It should come as no surprise that students in Acadia University’s computer science department are doing work that seems right out of science fiction. With Dr. Esteve Hassan’s new project, if Fantastic Voyage pops into your head, it’s understandable.

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Apple bytes: how data science is shaping better fruit

In apple breeding only around 0.014% of seedlings planted will make it to the final round of evaluations. And even fewer become commercially available cultivars. Researchers at Acadia are bringing together biology and computer science to bump that percentage up and make apple breeding and cultivation more sustainable.

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Acadia’s tidal energy research gets federal funding boost

A federal funding announcement today marks a significant new chapter for tidal energy research at Acadia University. 

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Students will grow with Acadia and $320,000 Lighthouse Project funding

Acadia University is one of the first three recipients of funding from the Nova Scotia Lighthouse Project, receiving $320,643 to create a self-sustaining farm-to-school initiative with Northeast Kings Education Centre (NKEC) in Canning.

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