Madison Gold, a first-year student in the Child Studies profile in Social Science was named on Monday evening as the recipient of the first-ever Irwin Cotler Award. Named for the long-standing former Member of Parliament for Mount-Royal and Minister of Justice in honour of his five decades championing social justice, the award recognizes outstanding community…
Commemoration services on Tuesday, September 13 gave the Dawson Community and the greater Montreal community at large a chance to look back in remembrance, but also to look toward the future with hope. The 90 minute ceremony contained some somber moments marking the day first-semester Dawson student Anastasia De Sousa lost her life in a…
The mission of the Dawson College Peace Centre is to achieve peace and nonviolence through education and action. To that end, this year’s selected theme of Reconciliation and Restoration exemplifies our mission, vision and values. This year the Centre will focus on projects and activities that engender healing, understanding, compassion and collaboration. The spirit of…
On Tuesday, September 13, Dawson College will mark the 10th anniversary of the shooting tragedy that took the life of first-semester student Anastasia De Sousa, injured 16 other people and traumatized an entire learning community. A remembrance ceremony will be held 11 a.m. in the Peace Garden, built as a living memorial to Anastasia and…
Open House will take place on Sunday, October 30, 2016 from 1-5 p.m. On this day, the College is open to prospective students and their families, and anyone thinking of applying to CEGEP or transferring programs. This is a chance to meet and talk with current students, teachers, advisors, admissions and other non-teaching staff about…
Bianca Farella, a former Dawson College Blues Rugby player, has along with her teammates won a Bronze Medal for Canada in Rugby Sevens at the 2016 Olympic Games. Bianca played women’s rugby at Dawson College from the fall of 2009 until the winter of 2011. She graduated from the Pure and Applied Science program at…
Inspired from best practices in incubation in the USA and Canada and built on a solid foundation of experience in education and on preparing individuals for careers, Dawson College and iC MTL join forces to offer an instructional program to accompany students/incubees in the pre- startup and startup phases of a new venture in the creative and cultural industries….
Congratulations to all of the students that participated in the 2016 Sir Isaac Newton Exam! The Sir Isaac Newton exam is a test of high school physics and is offered by the Department of Physics at the University of Waterloo to encourage the teaching of physics. The number of students from Dawson’s Science and Engineering…
Convocation 2016 took place at Place des Arts with more than 600 graduates receiving diplomas and attestations during two ceremonies held in the afternoon and in the evening of June 22. These graduates represented the 2,800 students who completed graduation requirements for Summer and Fall 2015 and Winter 2016, the largest finishing class in Dawson’s…
Dawson’s own Mylène Saucier, coordinator and chair of Physiotherapy Technology, was celebrated at the annual conference of the Association québécoise de pédagogie collégiale (AQPC) with an Honourable Mention for her work in developing and implementing curriculum in the new program offered at Dawson since 2012. Each year, the AQPC organizes a symposium featuring over 120…
Last Modified: June 28, 2016
