The Sustainable Happiness course was featured in a French article in the March 8 e-newsletter Infolettre Réseau Collégial. Chris Adam (Sustainability) and Selma Hamdani (Faculty, Psychology) were interviewed.
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Events are being planned all over Quebec, Canada and the world on March 19, an international day for climate action.
Dawson's Green Earth Club wanted to let the Dawson community know that there's a protest being planned in Montreal by local climate and social justice groups: https://fb.me/e/4u2nhaNv5
The Green Earth Club created this video to invite the Dawson community to get involved.
Two of the people honoured last month as Black Changemakers by CBC Quebec are connected to Dawson.
Division 1 Women’s Basketball coach Trevor Williams was featured Feb. 23: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/black-changemakers-trevor-williams-1.5923418
Dawson graduate Denburk Reid (Class of 2000, Marketing and Management Technology) was featured Feb. 10: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/black-changemakers-denburk-reid-1.5906734
Dawson graduate Denburk Reid (Class of 2000, Marketing and Management Technology) has organized Montreal Kneels for Change, a live event on Instagram on Feb. 24. The goals are to raise awareness of local social justice issues, honour the life of Sheffield Matthews and denounce the injustices committed against Mamadi III Fara Camara.
“As a community, we must come together and demonstrate our solidarity,” Denburk said.
We are invited to:
Links:
Instagram page of Montreal Community Cares: https://www.instagram.com/mtl_community_cares/?hl=en
Retired Director General Richard Filion's life and career were the subject of a feature article in l'Écho de La Tuque last week.
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Is there life on Mars? That question is propelling the mission of the Perseverance rover, which landed on the Red Planet Feb. 18. It has also driven the research of Dawson College Geography teacher and Mars researcher Richard Soare for over two decades.
Specifically, Richard’s research has focused on finding evidence of near-surface ice in the non-polar regions of Mars.
Click Read More for the homepage news story, which includes a Q and A with our colleague Richard Soare and a link to the CTV News interview with him last week.
A celebration was held online Feb. 16 to launch the new website of the First Peoples' Post-Secondary Storytelling Exchange project. About 170 people attended from all over Quebec and other parts of Canada. An elder opened the event, some of the storytellers shared their experiences, a quliq was lit, a video was premiered and the new website was shown.
There is a great amount of content to read and watch on the website. Perhaps you can begin by viewing this 10-minute video, which was premiered at the event: https://fppse.net/stories/
City TV broadcast this report on the day of the launch: https://montreal.citynews.ca/video/2021/02/15/indigenous-students-share-their-story/
Click Read More to visit the new website.
CBC Radio reporter Shahroze Rauf was on site at Dawson College on Feb. 22 to see how in-person learning is going. He conducted live interviews during the afternoon program Let's Go.
Part 1 featuring interview with Maxwell Jones (Associate Dean, SMSE): https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-383/clip/15826121
Part 2 featuring interviews with two students in Diagnostic Imaging:
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-383/clip/15826117
A Wellness Challenge for Students is being launched Feb. 15
Student Services, Sustainability and Communications have developed a peer to peer model that will encourage students to sustain healthy minds and healthy bodies through awareness and prevention.
Students will learn about how to create positive habits and find motivation from one another to combat the mental and physical burden they may be experiencing. Participants will earn entries into a draw for prizes throughout the semester.
Mental health and well-being are essential to student success. To find out more, students can follow @dawsoncollege on Instagram.
Five inspiring Dawson students and alumni will discuss their views and actions on the Climate Crisis at the Environmental Seminar at Dawson (virtually) on Feb. 18 at 10 a.m.
The 2019 climate march was featured in an episode of David Suzuki's The Nature of Things entitled "Rebellion". The mobilization of the College was spearheaded by the Green Earth Club. Students will discuss their involvement in the march as youth activists and present their current projects.
Presentations will be followed by a Q & A. This panel is being moderated by Brian Mader and introduced by Anna-Liisa Aunio. Please watch the episode Rebellion, which is available free on CBC Gem here:
https://gem.cbc.ca/media/the-nature-of-things/season-60/episode-1/38e815a-01356eb43e5
E-mail bpoirier@dawsoncollege.qc.ca to book your class for the panel.
Last Modified: March 9, 2021
