Richard Florizone, President of Dalhousie University, said that one of his biggest achievements during his time as president was the Ocean Frontier Institute — launching a $220-million global ocean research initiative with the largest federal funding grant in the university’s history. In an interview with Dal News, President Florizone reflected on what can Dal learn from that success as it works to advance research and innovation into its third century?
"By definition, we’re Atlantic Canada’s research university, and that means we must have a strong, robust agenda for research and scholarship. A strong research strategy is like a table top: you have some supporting legs — priority areas that are a bit higher profile where you attract scale and major resources — but you also need a strong table top, which means strong performance across all academic disciplines. So that’s why we’ve been focused on identifying those core research areas, building them up, and using that as a way to attract resources to also strengthen the tabletop. I think we’ve shown we’ve been able to do that," said Richard Florizone, President, Dalhousie University.
