During her career as a teacher of Physical Education, Dawson’s Joanna Farmer has developed expertise in teaching posture. “Teaching posture became a specialty for me,” said Joanna, who will be retiring in December 2020. About six years ago, the Nursing Department requested that Joanna develop a course to help their students reduce the risk for…
Class of 2020, you did it! You have completed your CEGEP studies despite a pandemic and a historic closure of Dawson College! Your efforts and success are worthy of a great celebration this year. Your teachers and all employees of Dawson College feel sad that we can’t hold our Convocation at Place des Arts. Surprise…
Communities around the world have been mobilizing against racism in recent days. This mobilization is a reaction to the most recent murder of another unarmed Black person. On May 25, George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis by a police officer after saying he could not breathe and pleading for his life. Even though we are…
Six ginkgo trees were the only survivors in the immediate blast area of the world’s first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 during World War II. Thanks to their deep roots, the trees survived this catastrophic act of war that destroyed 90 per cent of the Japanese city and killed about 100,000 people. With time, new…
On Monday, June 1, a small group of Dawson College students returned to the campus to complete the Winter Semester. This was the first time learning activities have taken place since March 13. About 120 students from Diagnostic Imaging, Electronics Engineering Technology, Civil Engineering Technology and the Professional Theatre programs will be completing courses at…
Close to 200 students in six Creative and Applied Arts programs at Dawson College have been looking forward to their vernissage shows for three years. Vernissage events, often called openings or exhibits outside Quebec, are much more than wonderful celebrations of our talented students’ work at the conclusion of their program. Critical for students’ education…
Ian MacKenzie’s work has “transformed the classrooms, programs, and even the academic culture” of Dawson College. These words come from the official nomination of Ian MacKenzie for the 2020 SALTISE Best Practices & Pedagogical Innovators Award. Ian has taught English at Dawson since 1992 and over the years has contributed in many ways to the…
Grateful, surreal, overjoyed, bittersweet are some of the words that new graduates of the Diagnostic Imaging Program at Dawson College used to describe their feelings about graduating early during the COVID-19 pandemic. The College went through a process to determine that each student met the competencies of the three-year career program. Twenty-one students learned they…
The Sociology of Food is a deep dive into the world of food for final-year students in Social Science, especially those in the Child Studies Profile. “Usually this course involves experiences planting and cooking together and a tour of Mount Royal,” said teacher Anna-Liisa Aunio. When the shutdown happened March 13, Anna-Liisa had to change…
Third-year Dawson College Industrial Design student Alejandrina Hernandez returned to her home country in late 2018 to visit family and friends and the experience marked her. Nightmare experience “Venezuela was a nightmare,” she said. “I could not recognize my city. It had changed for the worse.” Alejandrina and her family had immigrated to Canada in…
Last Modified: June 22, 2020
