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 a...

The Boston/Cambridge Trip was the concluding event to a set of extra- and intra-curricular activities involving more than 70 students that have taken place this year with S.P.A.C.E. and in the Science Program. The student projects were organized around the “Trans—” theme, which in the case of this group was “Translating Science”, many of which...

Spain’s Cultural Institutions compliments the activities of History Course 330-325-DW, Class Abroad: Spain (Winter 2015), which was designed to take students from the classroom to the field to apply learned knowledge in History and Classics. Students participated in an engaged learning environment. Students travelled, visited, observed, presented, and discussed, and in these ways, furthered their...

The group attended the 2015 Milan International Exposition: Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life. More than 140 countries are participating by showing the best of their technologies about food and its production sustainability. Students got to see the incredible diversity of architecture and design of the individual countries’ pavilions and their solutions to providing food...

The “Sustainable Campuses: Sharing our knowledge for Social and Environmental Sustainability” is a partnership initiative between Dawson College and Mexican universities aimed at generating and sharing knowledge on campus sustainability. On May 23, 2015, four Dawson Students traveled to Mexico to carry out a campus sustainability internship at two Mexican universities in the State of...

The main objectives of the project were to foster knowledge, experience, and understanding amongst Dawson Environmental Studies Profile, North South Studies, and Profesional Photography students with respect to Cree and Northern Quebec culture. The trip was designed to investigate the impacts of Hydro-Quebec’s James Bay Project and the subsequent diversion of the Rupert River. In...

The Quebec Reach for the Top League had one of its most closely-matched play in recent league history with several games ending in a tie-breaker. It wasn’t until the very last game of regular season play that the standings were established, with Marianopolis College finishing in first position going into the playoff rounds. It was...

This years’ edition of the Deans’ Choice Awards (DCA) 2015 hosted a packed house in the 3C Cafeteria area. The Deans’ Andréa Cole,Donald Walker and Diane Gauvin, had made their choices based on pre-established criteria and their own preferences. The graduating recipient group was Illustration and Design,a very large Graduating Group which made the choice...

Dawson College held its first Certificate Ceremony to formally recognize the achievement of students who had completed the Women’s-Gender Studies Certificate as part of their studies. In this first graduating group 26 students received certificates at the ceremony. To learn more about the Women’s – Gender Studies Certificate please click here.

Media Night winter 2015 was filled with great opportunities to celebrate the diversity of media that is made in our department. This year’s hosts, student committee, student volunteers and cin/com faculty worked hard to get as many films screened as possible, and jurors worked on a tight schedule to get prizes to over 20 student films. It...