One person, one soul, one body through patience and persistence can turn a barren landscape into a thriving lush forest. This is the story of The Man Who Planted Trees, a short film by Frédéric Back based on the story by Jean Giono. Dipti Gupta, a teacher in Cinema l Communications at Dawson, spoke about the…
A new bike rack will be set up this spring on Dawson’s campus. It is a project by three Dawson students, who entered it in the Green Innovation Challenge at John Abbott College in January and won the third-place prize of $500. “Bikers at Dawson experience many difficulties,” said team member Kyana Boncy. “They report…
One month has passed since the first-ever Dawson College Model United Nations (DCMUN) conference, which took place Jan. 17-19. The DCMUN team had fun at what is now the biggest CEGEP conference in the world. Participants Anaya Ray and Bassma Al Atrache were two volunteers for the event, which hosted more than 100 participants. Anaya…
On Jan. 22, a class of Interior Design students were told at 10 AM that if they could raise $500 in an hour for their Vernissage, a donor would match the $500. Chris Adam of the Office of Sustainability shared a story with them about a Community, Recreation and Leadership Training class that raised over…
Two exceptional Dawson students will be in Toronto Feb. 21-23 for the final part of the selection process for the Loran Award, the country’s largest and most comprehensive four-year undergraduate award, valued at $100,000. Ahmad Mousattat, a student in Enriched Health Science, and Leila Pozzi, a student in the Social Change and Solidarity profile of…
Coordinators from six career programs in the arts and medical studies at Dawson met regularly throughout the Fall 2024 semester to work on improving program and course alignment to meet program competencies. The participating programs were: Medical Ultrasound, Diagnostic Imaging and Radiation Oncology, from the Science, Medical Studies and Engineering sector, and Interior Design, Product…
On January 14, 10 students and two teachers in the Social Change & Solidarity (SCS) profile returned from a three-week solidarity delegation to Cuba. The trip was organized in partnership with the Centro Martin Luther King, an organization in Cuba that promotes local and global justice through popular education and grassroots community-building. As the students…
In January, 18 Dawson students from the Social Change & Solidarity (SCS) and General Studies profiles went live on the radio at CKUT: 90.3-FM. “This song is dedicated to the people we met this week from the group Solidarity Across Borders,” announced Emerson Rheault, a student in SCS, into the microphone. “Solidarity was really the…
It is well established that post-secondary students are experiencing elevated levels of stress, anxiety and loneliness. Teachers are also experiencing heightened levels of stress in their workplace. Kindness and well-being can feed and fuel optimal learning, Dr. John-Tyler Binfet told an audience of about 150 participants during his keynote talk at Intercollegiate Ped Day on…
To kick off her Intercollegiate Ped Day workshop on Jan. 14, Heather Martin, a Dawson teacher in the Community, Recreation and Leadership Training program, posted an activity on a slide with only minimal instructions – “Can you solve these visual puzzles?”. “Some people look at it and think ‘I can’t do this’ and others feel…
Last Modified: January 30, 2025
