The Dawson Blues Band presents Lean on Me, their first video. It features the contributions of a dozen Dawson employees who would like to cheer you.
You can show your appreciation by supporting our students with a donation to the Dawson College Foundation's COVID-19 Student Financial Aid Fund.
Go to the video and turn on the sound in the Read More link.
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.
Click Read More for the homepage news story featuring three of our newest graduates.
Read More - Diagnostic Imaging students graduated early and now working on COVID frontlines
ScienceFest is an annual conference celebrating the knowledge, creativity and passion for learning science of Dawson College students. The 6th annual edition took place on Zoom this year.
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Read More - ScienceFest Conference a Virtual Experience for students in 2020
Several people have responded to the call to share recipes. We will share them in upcoming editions of D News.
Please continue to share your favourite recipes and the stories behind them. Use the Submit News form or email Christina .
The first person to respond was Kurt Holfeld. Click Read More to get his Dad's famous Caesar Salad Recipe.
Read More - Dawson community recipes: Caesar Salad shared by Kurt Holfeld
Mylène Saucier began her new position as Assistant Dean of Social Science and Business Technologies at the end of March. Prior to taking on this new role, Mylène had been a teacher in the Physiotherapy Technology program.
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Kayla Tutino became the new head coach of the Dawson Blues Division 1 Women’s Hockey Team in mid-April but has not had the chance to meet her players yet.
Read more about Kayla and her team by clicking Read More.
Read More - Kayla Tutino is new head coach for women’s hockey
Ian MacKenzie (English) was honoured with the 2020 SALTISE Best Practice & Pedagogical Innovators Award. Ian was nominated for his work as founder and director of Dawson’s Writing in the Disciplines (WID). Ian has inspired, guided and supported faculty across 28 different departments, and has been a leader within the Learning Communities at Dawson College. The award is given annually at the SALTISE conference. There will be a feature about Ian and this great achievement coming soon on the Dawson College website and in D News.
SALTISE will acknowledge Ian and the other awardees within the pages of a Conference Program/Proceedings. SALTISE will distribute this souvenir publication. If you are not already on the SALTISE newsletter mailing list, send an email.
On May 13, spring came to Dawson College! A large order of 400 seedlings arrived for the Theatre Garden, which is outside the Dawson College Theatre on the Atwater side of the campus.
Jennifer de Vera and Megan Jutras of the Sustainability Office planted 400 plants including leafy greens, herbs and edible flowers.
This week they will continue planting peas, beans, radish, beets and carrots.
Chris Whittaker (Physics) and Michelle Smith (Cinema-Communications; Journeys) were interviewed by Mike Finnerty on May 13 on CBC Radio's Daybreak. Click Read More to listen to the segment and hear their thoughts about CEGEP remaining mostly online.
Anick Legault (Psychology) was interviewed on Radio Canada's morning program on May 18 about the use of mobile phones for online learning. Click Read More to listen to the segment.
On May 11, Émilie Robert began her new position as Director of Research and Transfer at CRISPESH, a CCTT (College Centre for the Transfer of Technologies) at Dawson College in partnership with the Cégep du Vieux Montréal that is unique in Quebec. The focus of our CCTT is on conducting applied research to improve the lives of people living in a disabling situation.
Émilie holds a doctorate in Public Health from Université de Montréal, and has dedicated a great part of her life to improving conditions for people in vulnerable situations. She has a background in international development and expertise in public health, knowledge sharing and collaborative evaluation.
To read more about Émilie on the CRISPESH website, click Read More.
Read More - Émilie Robert is new director of research at CRISPESH
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The Professional Theatre Department welcomes you to attend Masques, written and performed by the graduating students. A vocal masque is a style of performance in which one actor plays multiple characters, telling an original story. This event will be live-streamed May 29 at 7:30 p.m.
A link to the performances will be published on Dawson’s Professional Theatre Facebook page, closer to the date
For more information: lesau@dawsoncollege.qc.ca
Read More - Save the date: “Masques” to be livestreamed May 29
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Last Modified: May 19, 2020
