John Nathaniel Gertler, a student in Environmental Studies and a member of the Dawson Blues Basketball team and the Green Earth Club, was elected to the Board of Directors of the Dawson College Foundation April 23.
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Please let the Sustainability Office and Facilities Management know if you left food in your office or in a fridge or kitchen area.
It is week 7 and it would be important to throw out these leftovers.
Please use this form so you can return to a nice smell in the College:
Dawson employees have a 15% discount on Bixi bike sharing memberships.
The regular annual fee is $97 and Dawson employees only pay $82.45, tax included.
To sign up, email sustainability@dawsoncollege.qc.ca
For information about using the Bixi service during the pandemic, visit: https://www.bixi.com/en/info-covid-19
Dawson was to have hosted the 2020 Intercollegiate Unplugged Singing Competition on April 27.
The competition has moved online and everyone can join a Facebook Watch Party this coming Monday at 7 p.m.on the Campus Life and Leadership Facebook page.
Three Dawson students are finalists in the competition: Jeanne Brabant, Jesse Caruso, and Aaron Patrick Dalangin. Viewers can vote for their favourite performance, along with three local celebrity judges.
Tomorrow (April 22) is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, which is usually celebrated in a big way at Dawson College with a week-long program of events. This year, Earth Week is going virtual at Dawson and all over the world: Virtual presentation by yogipreneur Bhaskar Goswami (pictured) on Wednesday, April 22 via ZOOM meeting…
The environment has long been the casualty of war, destruction, and ignorance. The violence of armed conflict not only annihilates humanity, shattering ways of life, it also devastates the environment as it becomes either collateral damage, or suffers from the deliberate destruction to accumulate power, leading to the “plunder[ing] of natural resources and the collapse…
The past six weeks have been very challenging for all of us and for our students as well. We have been racing against time to ensure that we could, as much as possible, save this semester by re-organizing classes and deploying online services to support our students. You can find a list of available services…
Is this quarantine cramping your style?! Do you want to stretch your horizons and learn some tools to improve your health? As part of their internship, third-year Physiotherapy Technology students will be offering a series of webinars on various health promotion topics. Sessions will take place every Monday and Wednesday at 11 a.m. via Zoom….
After watching the Living Campus guided tour video, Ivan Freud, Chair of Dawson's Religion Department, had this to say:
"As a teacher I have been involved with Dawson's Peace and Sustainability Communities for a number of years, and yet I was surprised to find some initiatives that I had never heard of in the latest Living Campus Orientation Video. What is being done in terms of peace and sustainability at Dawson is simply incredible! It makes me proud to be part of such a vibrant, visionary, creative, and caring community."
Why not celebrate Earth Day tomorrow by taking time to tour our Living Campus?
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Dawson's Phys. Ed. team got together virtually to share a photo message of encouragement for the Dawson community. (Read the message in the photo)
The Physical Education Department has been providing Dawson Homebody workouts and resources created especially for the Dawson community every week since the shutdown began.
Last Modified: April 28, 2020
