How do you build an app that creates a seamless, immersive experience for the user? You immerse yourself in the research, the automation, the testing, and the AI technology.

That’s exactly what Dr. Esteve Hassan (Computer Science) and two fourth-year computer science students, Nitish Sahni and Joyce Adeyi, have done this year, working with a Nova Scotia tech company to develop an app for museums that they hope to see in use across the country.

Finding Formula: Confronting Insecurities, is a major research project headed by Acadia University’s Dr. Lesley Frank, a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Food, Health and Social Justice, sociology professor, and director of the Fed Family Lab. Finding Formula uses both hard survey data and digital storytelling to convey the lived realities behind infant food insecurities, helping the public, institutions, and policymakers see what statistics sometimes fail to capture.

D’Amato and Tracy Bennett, who recently produced a 36-episode series called Wild Nova Scotia together, wanted to explore Nova Scotia’s birds in more depth.

The result was Bird Country, a new documentary screening in Wolfville at 7 pm on April 1 at the Al Whittle Theatre as part of the ACC Film Series.

“We know that belonging, representation, and early encouragement matter enormously in shaping whether young women see science as a place where they belong,” says Dr. Randy Newman, chair of Acadia’s Department of Psychology,

Dr. Newman is also the co-chair of WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) Acadia alongside Dr. Melanie Coombs (Biology). The initiative supports women and girls in science and engineering while also fostering institutional and cultural change within STEM environments.