More than 500 graduates of Dawson College, accompanied by family and friends, will descend upon the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier of the Place des Arts on Tuesday evening, June 16 to receive their diplomas. Nearly 3,000 students will have fulfilled the requirements of their DECs or AECs over the past year, counting graduates from Summer and Fall…
It is with great pleasure that the Dawson College Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship announces a win for our students at the Quebec Entrepreneurship Contest! This is the 2nd year in a row Dawson students have been honoured with a prize. Eweek’s Dawson Den finalist Meghan Dove Designs represented the college as the winner of…
ACTIVE LEARNING is a response to the classic student question: “Why do we have to learn this?” or its closely related cousin: “Will this be on the test?”. SALTISE is a symbiotic community of developers and users of active learning pedagogies. SALTISE provides resources – human and material – for the development or implementation of…
The Science Program has been putting a strong effort in providing students with out of class learning activities of various formats and from all departments. The Dawson Mathematics department has led the charge in recent years, hosting several events including the Dawson Weekly Mathematics Challenge (started in 2009), which provides students with challenging weekly problems…
Congratulations to Dawson Professional Theatre Program graduates Marcel Jeannin, Alex Ivanovici, Catherine Berube and Tristan Lalla. They are all nominees for the ACTRA (Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists) awards here in Quebec. See the link below: http://www.actramontreal.ca/press-releases/2015/04/2015-actra-awards-in-montreal-nominees-announced/
This summer, four students from Dawson’s environmental profiles in both sciences and social sciences will embark on a six week internship to two Universities in the State of Morelos, Mexico to share ideas about sustainability and learn new practices. While in Mexico, we will work on the day to day maintenance of existing projects at…
Two students from the Law, Society and Justice students participated in the Montreal Bar Debating Competition on Wednesday March 25 at the Montréal Courthouse. Réginal Labonté and Inès Vieux Francoeur, both first year students, competed against 9 other college and cegep teams in a debate on the theme of Legal Protection for Whistleblowers: for or…
Dawson braved one of the coldest St. Patrick’s Day parades in recent memory, and took home the Best Amateur Float award for the second year running. The float, designed by members of Campus Life and Leadership in conjunction with some of our creative students, and assembled painstakingly by Dawson locksmith Mike Sheehan and Dawson employees…
As Dawson expands its initiatives toward a more sustainable campus, many programs are adopting new practices to ensure that they do their part to reduce environmental impact. One such program is Visual Arts, in which a new printmaking technique is being introduced that does away with the traditional chemical elements used in this art form….
Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan) is proud to announce the winners the first CICan Entrepreneurship Awards. The winning colleges and institutes were celebrated at CICan’s Enabling Entrepreneurship Symposium, which was hosted by Cégep Garneau in Québec City. CICan’s Entrepreneurship Awards recognize colleges and institutes’ excellence in promoting entrepreneurial values as a means of fostering innovation…
Last Modified: March 27, 2015
