The Dawson Student Union has taken the College’s commitment to peace one step further by organizing a student-run conference that will take place on March 31. Dawson Peace will incorporate various activities and speakers to talk about peace and its role in the 21st century. The Dawson Peace conference aims to create a more acute…
The Office of Academic Development put together another revolutionary series of workshops to help teachers maximize on the benefits of technology in the classroom. Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology in OAD, hosted the series that included such topics as “If Your Students Are Glued To Their Phone Then Put Your Lectures On Their Phone”,…
Free software icon Richard Stallman spoke to a crowd of nearly 200 attendees of the Logiciel libre et votre liberté conference at Dawson on March 17. Often described as the inventor of what many refer to as open-source or free software, Stallman is the creator of the GNU/Linux operating system. Sponsored by the ADTE and…
A team of Dawson teachers, students and staff will be participating in the “Art, Science and Tradition for Sustainability Forum”, taking place in the State of Morelos, Mexico from March 14th to the 18th. The Forum is a collaborative effort between Dawson College, the Universidad Politécnica del Estado de Morelos and the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional…
Last weekend (March 4-5-6), Dawson hosted the Institut du Nouveau Monde’s Winter School. More than 130 CEGEP and secondary school students and over 60 volunteers and participants came together to engage, discuss and propose solutions to questions facing young people in Quebec today: questions such as violent radicalization, indigenous issues in Quebec, mental health and…
The work of several second-year students in the Graphic Design program at Dawson has been selected to be featured in a poster presentation of 30 artists at a vernissage at the McCord Museum from March 16 to April 3. The students whose posters were selected are Marc-André Larouche, Sandrine Le Blanc, Amelie Lazure-Ratté, and Meghan…
Three Dawson teams from Civil Engineering Technology who competed in the the annual ETS PontPOP contest were asked to build scale model bridges using only popsicle sticks, glue and dental floss. This past Saturday, the three Dawson teams collectively won seven awards. Louis Bourdon, Allison Nadeau, Karina Colagrosso and Brandon Gnann won two awards for their…
Dawson College played host to nearly 100 participants attending the first-ever workshop held for international recruitment representatives from U.S. Community Colleges and Quebec CEGEPs on Wednesday, February 24th, 2016. This historic event was organized jointly by the U.S. Consulate General in Montreal and the Direction des Affaires International of the Fédération des Cegeps and in…
Dawson College will be hosting the Winter School (École d’hiver) in partnership with the Institut du Nouveau Monde on March 4, 5 and 6. The Winter School will bring together students from colleges and secondary schools to discuss and exchange on social and political topics, and to develop their abilities to be active members of…
While the rest of us were freezing our tails off this past weekend the Dawson Women’s Hockey team participated in a tournament in the United States. In Washington, D.C. from February 11-15 some of the top U19 women’s hockey teams from across Canada and the U.S. took part in the 9th annual JWHL Challenge Cup….
Last Modified: February 24, 2016
