The Center on Disabilities at California State University, Northridge will award Dr. Catherine Fichten its Fred Strache Leadership Award at the Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference in March 2016. This conference, commonly known as the CSUN Conference, is the largest, oldest and only university-sponsored conference of its kind. It is now in…
Dawson student Samson is getting ready to play Basketball at the university level. Dawson College Athletics has seen its share of great talent and players recruited at a university level. This is the case for one Dawson student from Saint-Bruno named Anie-Pier Samson, who was being scouted to play university basketball throughout her time at…
Eleven students from Dawson College attended the prestigious National Model United Nations in Washington, D.C. on the weekend of Octover 30 – November 1. They represented Indonesia on several committees and managed to find time to visit several interesting sites as well. We are happy to report that our students came home with a delegation…
JavaOne is the premiere event for worldwide users of Oracle’s Java computer software. The week-long conference in San Francisco brings in all the big names of the programming world (along with A-list entertainers like Elton John and Beck). The esteemed presenters at JavaOne 2015 included Dawson’s Ken Fogel, addressing the methods and challenges of teaching…
A research team of Stanford graduate students, including Dawson Pure and Applied Science alumnus Tyler Reid, has been featured in the Washington Post, the New York Times and on CNN recently in a story about a research project that almost ended badly. After successfully sending GPS equipment into space along with a GoPro camera to…
Dawson Rugby player Shawna Brayton was invited to the tryouts for the Canadian team in June and has since been selected as a team member. Shawna will represent Canada as part of the Canadian Women’s Rugby team from August 31 to September 14 as part of the Commonwealth tournament. She will be supported financially by…
Lizanne Murphy, who was a proud member of the Dawson Blues women’s AAA basketball team, wore number 12 in the historic win at the Pan Am Games in Toronto, defeating the United States to capture gold. Lizanne is an eight-year national team veteran.
A delegation from Dawson College attended the 2nd Sino-Canada Skills competition held in Nanjing, China from June 10th through June 12th. Two students, Joseph Fanaberia and Pietro Mosca, from the Mechanical Engineering Technology Program, won first prize in the Design Innovation Competition. The Design Innovation Competition pitted college teams from Quebec and across China in…
Dawson’s own Alice Havel, one of the College’s longest serving professionals and a pioneer and visionary in the design and implementation of services provided through the Student AccessAbility Centre has been recognized for her long and illustrious career at a ceremony today in Chicoutimi by the Association québécoise de pédagogie collégiale (AQPC) at its annual…
More than 500 graduates of Dawson College, accompanied by family and friends, will descend upon the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier of the Place des Arts on Tuesday evening, June 16 to receive their diplomas. Nearly 3,000 students will have fulfilled the requirements of their DECs or AECs over the past year, counting graduates from Summer and Fall…
Last Modified: December 7, 2015
