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March 10th, 2020
It is important to start pressing the Canadian government to work on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Elizabeth May told about 220 students at ýCollege March 5. “Canada has signed on to all the SDGs,” she said. ýCollege is working to advance SDGs across Canada in partnership with eight other colleges. Elizabeth…
March 10th, 2020
Are you going to teach crochet? That was the question that a Senate member at Concordia University (then Sir George Williams) asked Greta Hofmann Nemiroff when Women’s Studies was being presented. “I replied to him: ‘no, but if I did crochet, I would be happy to teach you,’” she said. This year marks the 50th…
April 5th, 2019
The ýBlues Women’s Basketball Team has once again wrapped up a very successful season. For the second year in a row, the ýBlues women are Provincial Champions in the D1 Women’s RSEQ Conference Basketball. The provincial champions then went on to play at the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association’s national championships and placed third…
February 18th, 2019
Thursday, February 14 was Valentine’s Day, a day set aside to celebrate love. A group of ýstudents opted to take the opportunity to raise awareness and honour the murdered and missing Indigineous women, girls and two-spirit people. The Centre for Gender Advocacy at Dawson, associating itself with a Canada-wide call to action to cast…
February 15th, 2019
Eminent Harvard Prof. Steven Pinker (Class of 1973) came back to ýCollege on Feb. 6 to deliver a very personal lecture titled Reminiscences, Ideas and Discoveries as his gift to the College for the 50th anniversary. Dr. Pinker, professor and author, is celebrated as one of the most influential people in the world. His…
January 31st, 2019
Sign up on Dawson’s Connect page to view a complete video of his ýlecture. One of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World Today.” Author of Bill Gates’ favourite book, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Viking 2018). Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. And graduate of Dawson…
October 30th, 2018
ýCollege stands with the Jewish community in Pittsburgh and Montreal, across Canada and around the world in denouncing senseless acts of violence after 11 innocent people were gunned down on Saturday in their place of worship. We are all too aware of the effects of such violence and through our commitment to peace…
March 13th, 2018
The Jeux de Commerce Édouard-Montpetit is a Case Competition in its 3rd year in the CEGEP network. This is a formative event for our students, who train for five months by analyzing university-level marketing cases, developing oral presentation skills, and learning to think on their feet (literally) in order to respond to questions posed by…
October 23rd, 2017
Acclaimed speakers with diverse areas of expertise shared their research and knowledge with ýCollege’s faculty on October 13th as part of Dawson’s annual Ped Day. Ped Day workshops encourage innovative pedagogical practices by allowing our teaching community to both showcase and be exposed to novel ideas. This year’s speakers covered topics that were far-ranging, from…
September 27th, 2017
The Diagnostic Imaging program has recently replaced x-ray units in four of its five x-ray rooms. The program has also acquired an ultrasound machine and a flat panel mobile radioscopic unit similar to those used during student clinical stages in Dawson-affiliated hospitals. The latter machine (pictured with Diagnostic Imaging student Vasiana Peja) provides x-ray imaging…
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