Eleven students from Dawson College attended the prestigious National Model United Nations in Washington, D.C. on the weekend of Octover 30 – November 1. They represented Indonesia on several committees and managed to find time to visit several interesting sites as well. We are happy to report that our students came home with a delegation…
Dawson is host to this year’s international Science et Société conference taking place from November 6-8. Organized by the Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS), this event will draw close to 300 students from CEGEPS around the province and speakers from Quebec and France. The theme for the forum is Connaissances pour un monde en…
JavaOne is the premiere event for worldwide users of Oracle’s Java computer software. The week-long conference in San Francisco brings in all the big names of the programming world (along with A-list entertainers like Elton John and Beck). The esteemed presenters at JavaOne 2015 included Dawson’s Ken Fogel, addressing the methods and challenges of teaching…
As part of the Living Campus initiative with Sustainable Dawson, faculty, students and staff nurtured monarch chrysalises and caterpillars over the last three weeks. The pièce de résistance was the tagging and releasing of 175 monarch butterflies into the Peace Garden. According to the World Wildlife Federation, the monarch butterfly will travel between 2,000 –…
The Law, Society and Justice Profile and the Dawson College Political Science Department are pleased to report that the Ville-Marie All Candidates meeting Wednesday Sept. 16 was a huge success. More than 300 students, faculty and staff packed themselves into 5B.16 to hear (left to right in the picture) Daniel Green (Green Party of Canada),…
A research team of Stanford graduate students, including Dawson Pure and Applied Science alumnus Tyler Reid, has been featured in the Washington Post, the New York Times and on CNN recently in a story about a research project that almost ended badly. After successfully sending GPS equipment into space along with a GoPro camera to…
Join us for the annual Humanities and Public Life Conference, which will take place from the 21st to the 25th of September! This year, our speakers will examine the theme of Ethics in an Age of Globalization. The Humanities Week schedule has been confirmed as the annual conference returns with another impressive lineup of influential…
Dawson Rugby player Shawna Brayton was invited to the tryouts for the Canadian team in June and has since been selected as a team member. Shawna will represent Canada as part of the Canadian Women’s Rugby team from August 31 to September 14 as part of the Commonwealth tournament. She will be supported financially by…
Lizanne Murphy, who was a proud member of the Dawson Blues women’s AAA basketball team, wore number 12 in the historic win at the Pan Am Games in Toronto, defeating the United States to capture gold. Lizanne is an eight-year national team veteran.
A delegation from Dawson College attended the 2nd Sino-Canada Skills competition held in Nanjing, China from June 10th through June 12th. Two students, Joseph Fanaberia and Pietro Mosca, from the Mechanical Engineering Technology Program, won first prize in the Design Innovation Competition. The Design Innovation Competition pitted college teams from Quebec and across China in…
Last Modified: July 21, 2015
