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°®¶¹´«Ã½College at Harvard’s World Model UN in Rome

March 24th, 2016

During the Study Break, 15 members of the °®¶¹´«Ã½College Model United Nations, and two members of the faculty, attended Harvard’s World Model United Nations in Rome. WorldMUN is considered the Olympics of the Model UN circuit, bringing together over 2400 delegates from 110 countries for this event. A central purpose of Model UN is…

SPACE: TransLuminal, Beyond the Speed of Light

February 1st, 2016

It all began a year ago in an Acrylic Painting class. Many hundreds of hours later and involving the collaboration of over two hundred students, faculty and staff from various programs and departments, and student teams from Cinema-Communications, Community Recreation Leadership Training, Electronics Engineering Technology, Illustration & Design, Industrial Design, Mechanical Engineering Technology and Visual…

Regaining equilibrium: a new Physiotherapy Technology project

January 21st, 2016

A joint project between the Kinesiology Department at Université de Montréal and the Physiotherapy Technology programs at °®¶¹´«Ã½and Cégep Marie-Victorin to develop intelligent technology in the field is making its mark with the development of tools, including smartphone apps, for use in therapy. The project, acronym TEKPHY, has been developing a tool for balance…

Monarchs Butterfly Tagging

°®¶¹´«Ã½releases over 175 monarch butterflies

October 1st, 2015

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 –…

Sustainable Campuses Internship Blog

June 17th, 2015

Four students from the Environmental Studies Profile and Environmental Science programs at °®¶¹´«Ã½College are benefitting from two new international partnership agreements with institutions in Mexico as a part of the Campus Sustainability initiative. Morgen Bertheussen, Alberta Byers, Ella Martin and Mikayla Salmon-Beitel are first year °®¶¹´«Ã½College students who are currently in Mexico to…

Environmental students head to Mexico for a sustainability internship

April 15th, 2015

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…

Register to the 2014 edition of Dawson’s Den

October 8th, 2014

Pitch your big idea during this year’s edition of Dawson’s Den and you might win some amazing prizes. Do you have a BIG IDEA? Want to win amazing prizes? This year’s Entrepreneurship Week (EWeek) is even better than last year’s. You do not want to miss this opportunity to meet cool, hip entrepreneurs and to…

Free Introduction To Entrepreneurship Workshops

August 7th, 2014

Are you a full-time student in any one of our °®¶¹´«Ã½College programs? Did you know that a founder of a company does not necessarily come out of a business program? One of our recent graduates of Social Sciences started a company in the entertainment and mobile app business. He followed his passion and is…

°®¶¹´«Ã½launches first Indiegogo funding initiative: SPONSOR A SEEDLING

June 10th, 2014

It’s finally here – our Sponsor-A-Seedling IndieGogo campaign to raise funds for the °®¶¹´«Ã½Gardens Rooftop Project is officially launching today! All of us who are involved in this project are really excited to be beginning this fundraiser, and are hoping for as much community enthusiasm as possible. Please take a look at our IndieGogo…

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