Dawson played host to students and faculty from Cegep Limoilou in Quebec City and Nanjing Polytechnic Institute in Nanjing, China for the first edition of the Sino-Canada Skills Competition to be held in Montreal from June 7 – 10, 2016. The friendly competition was comprised of two CNC modules: a CNC Milling competition and a…
Through the extraordinary cooperation between the Dawson College Foundation and the Chambre de commerce du Montréal Métropolitain (CCMM), 30 Dawson students and their teachers were able to spend an evening with the recipients of the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize, collectively known as the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, on May 16 at the Centre Pierre-Péladeau. The…
Montreal, led by Dawson’s own Model UN (DCMUN), has won the bid to host the 26th session of the World Model United Nations MMXVII in 2017! This is big news, nearly 3,000 participants are expected from post-secondary educational institutions around the world, with delegates participating in simulations and activities within the Model United Nations conference,…
Four students, two from Health Science and two from Social Science programs at Dawson College, are off to Mexico as interns as a part of our Sustainable Campuses Initiative. Samantha Nesterenko, Aniela Walewicz, Emma Malcomber and Samantha Bennett will be working on sustainability projects at the Preparatoria Tres Marías (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos)…
The Dawson College Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIEE) is excited to announce a pilot project to take place in a beautiful space in Old Montreal. Graduating students aiming to launch a company in the creative and cultural industries will have completed a set of 15 workshops by the end of this month. They will…
A group of Dawson students is preparing to embark on what has become an annual trip to Waskaganish in Northern Quebec in the coming days. The fieldtrip, an initiative of the Environmental Studies profile, will allow the students to immerse themselves in the Cree culture of this James Bay community while learning about geography, First…
The Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education received a whopping 28 project entries this year for the Quebec Entrepreneurship Contest – OSEntreprendre. This was quite the thrill for them as they weren’t expecting to have so many great entrepreneurial projects to choose from. From the 28 projects, 10 qualified for entry in the contest where…
Five years after its creation, CRLT students have revived the virtual Peace Wall in light of the 10 year commemorations of the events of September 13, 2006. Their goal is to collect a total of 10,000 peace messages (1,000 for each year since the 2006 tragedy) or a message from each of the 193 countries…
Every fall, the Fonds de développement École de technologie supérieure awards students showing promise in various engineering fields represented by the institution. Many Dawson graduates from our engineering technologies such Civil Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics Technology and Mechanical Engineering continue their studies at the undergraduate level at ÉTS. At this year’s awards ceremony, which took…
With China’s emergence as a leader of the global economy in recent years, many questions have arisen regarding the effect of this success on Western economies, developing countries, and China itself. Professor Xuehua Shi of Beijing Normal University will be addressing such questions during a lecture at Dawson on April 27. Xuehua is the Deputy…
Last Modified: April 22, 2016
