Twenty projects to benefit students received funding in 2023 thanks to new funding available from the Dawson Foundation. The new Student Academic Enrichment Fund (SAEF) received applications and provided funding for projects in the Winter and Fall 2023 semesters. Several projects would never have taken place without the new SAEF. “Students, their teachers and the…
(NORTH BAY-Nov. 29, 2023) – Canadore College in North Bay, Ontario, and Dawson College in Montreal, Quebec, will be working together to improve the overall well-being of their respective campuses and communities. The two institutions recently signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on advancing a Sustainable Happiness Certificate. Pioneered by Dr. Catherine O’Brien, the…
Dawson College categorically dissociates itself from The Plant, student-run media funded by the Dawson Student Union (DSU). The DSU won independence from Dawson College in a legal decision rendered in 2005 and is fully autonomous from the College. As such, The Plant is produced without academic oversight and is not, strictly speaking, journalism, but a…
In October, Blain Haile (Dawson Class of 2023- Social Science (Law, Society and Justice) won a $5,000 TELUS Student Bursary. Blain is pursuing a Bachelor of Civil Law and a Juris Doctor with a minor in Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, & Social Justice Studies. She is thrilled to win the bursary: “This bursary will allow me…
Students applying for admission to CEGEP in the Fall of 2024 have a new option at Dawson in science. The College plans to offer 70 seats in a new-to-Dawson pre-university program entitled Science, Computer Science and Mathematics (program code 200.C1). Students will benefit from taking classes together as part of a learning community. They will…
Thirteen Dawson students spent their summer working on real research projects in various fields of neuroscience. There were eight projects in partnership with Polytechnique/Ste-Justine, MNI, Douglas Institute, McGill departments of Physiology and of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. According to Neuroscience Research Group coordinator Hélène Nadeau: “some projects used images from dMRI, EEG, MRI, fMRI, MR spectroscopy,…
Four outstanding teachers at Dawson received the Director General’s Teaching Excellence Award on the occasion of Ped Day on Oct. 13: Hannah Heath-Engel (Biomedical Laboratory Technology) Audrey Juhasz (Mathematics) Roger Machaalani (Chemistry) Nicola Martino (Italian). Director General Diane Gauvin shared comments written by their students at the award presentation. Hannah is “one of the best…
The Dawson College Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Mitchell Rae Yang as Director. Mitchell’s first day at Dawson will be Wednesday, November 1. Mitchell joins Dawson after serving as Director at two different youth-focused community organizations. Most recently, Mitchell served as ED of Project 10, a nonprofit community organization dedicated to supporting…
A student-led project at Dawson has won the provincial Forces Avenir award in the category of Mutual Aid, Peace and Justice. On Sept. 27 during a gala in Quebec City, the award was presented to a group of Dawson graduates and students who founded the Mahsa Amini Initiative. The initiative began as a reaction to…
Out of a record 81 entries at Dawson alone, three Dawson students were selected as semifinalists for the 2023 Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF) College Writers Award. The 2023 award will be announced at the QWF Gala on Nov. 13. Dawson English teacher and organizer Adam Bright said that the Dawson writers “noticed and felt something…
Last Modified: October 11, 2023
