IndigeSTEM students in Warrior Up documentary series
February 8th, 2023
Filming took place at Dawson on Jan. 24 and 30 for the production of a documentary series entitled Warrior Up, which will air on APTN and stream on聽 APTNlumi later this year. The series follows inspiring and activist Indigenous youth aged 15 to 26 as they face challenges and make positive changes happen in their communities and beyond.
Film actor Joshua Odjick from the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation was the host for this episode and he interviewed the student founders of IndigeSTEM peer tutoring group, Rotshenn贸n:ni Two-Axe (Health Science) & Kayla Spencer-Young (Pure & Applied Science), and their faculty advisor Joel Trudeau (Physics). They also captured footage of the students at the college and doing a moose heart dissection lab.
"We are very grateful for the opportunity to share the work we've been doing," Rotshenn贸n:ni and Kayla said. "We believe that shedding light on the project and its impacts can have a positive outcome for the Indigenous community. Overall the experience was very rewarding and the crew was quite fun to work with. We hope to inspire others to undertake similar projects and to create change within their own communities."
(Photo credit: Chloe Emond-Lane)
Celebrating active learning at Dawson
February 8th, 2023
There are almost endless ways to do active learning and it can be adapted to various disciplines, spaces and personal preferences. Throughout the 10th anniversary of the Dawson Active Learning Community in 2022, champions from a variety of disciplines were highlighted in Dawson鈥檚 e-newsletter, D News, and on social media.
Click Read More for the homepage news story and learn about the AL experiences of teachers and students.
First trip to Cuba in 3 years!
January 25th, 2023
The heart of the North-South Studies Profile of Social Science is the field trip. For the first time since 2019-鈥�20, the profile students and faculty were able to go to Cuba.
Here is what Profile Coordinator Gisela Frias wrote from Cuba in December as a caption to this photo: 鈥淥ur first trip since the pandemic. Our first stop, Plaza de la Revoluci贸n. We are being hosted by the Martin Luther King Center. Let the learning begin. Thank you to all of you who have supported this trip. Thank you to Dawson staff and teachers, to alumni and to the greater community. Also thank you to members of Place de la Dignit茅 who mobilized to support the donation drive we carried out.鈥�
January 25th, 2023
For Social Science Week 2023, we鈥檝e got an exciting line-up of speakers with fascinating topics that touch on all of the Social Science disciplines taught at the College. We are thrilled that Darryl Leroux will be here, speaking about issues of white supremacy and race-shifting in Quebec, a phenomenon where white people claim Indigenous identity…
H茅l猫ne Nadeau receives excellence in teaching physics award for Quebec and Nunavut
January 25th, 2023
Dawson鈥檚 H茅l猫ne Nadeau has been selected by the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) for the 2022 CAP Award for Excellence in Teaching High School/CEGEP Physics (Quebec and Nunavut). This is 鈥渞ecognition of her dedication to teaching physics and the development of students鈥� experimental and research skills,鈥� stated the CAP in a news release dated Jan. 17.
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SPACE students attend NASA workshop at Dawson
January 25th, 2023
The first workshop on , took place at 成人黑料 from Jan. 9 to 11. The workshop, the only NASA sanctioned event held outside of the United States, was co-convened by Dawson鈥檚 Richard Soare (faculty, Geography) and Jim Garvin, formerly NASA鈥檚 Chief Mars Scientist and currently the Principal Investigator of the DAVINCI Mission to Venus.
Dawson SPACE students also got to participate!
Click Read More for the homepage news story by Ursula Sommerer
Rob Stephens on ChatGPT opportunities and challenges
January 25th, 2023
On Jan. 20, CTV Montreal News interviewed Humanities faculty member and Dawson AI executive member Rob Stephens about , which is making waves in the classroom. The week before Rob had given a talk at Intercollegiate Ped Days on the same topic.
CTV news report:
Discover 12 projects funded by Foundation
January 25th, 2023
A dozen projects proposed by Dawson students, faculty and staff have been approved for funding through the Dawson Foundation鈥檚 new Student Academic Enrichment Fund.
A website page showcases the projects and allows others to invest in a particular project through a donate button.
The Student Academic Enrichment Fund is supported by students each semester and is meant to be a source of funds for projects that demonstrate a clear benefit for Dawson students and represent an activity that goes over and above core competencies for completion of a program. The selection committee, including representatives from the Dawson Student Union, Academics and Student Services, meets twice a year to review and approve project proposals.
The next round of project applications will open later this semester and will be announced in D News and the Omnivox student news feed.
November 30th, 2022
Last night (Nov. 22) we watched an award show for remarkable research in Canada under the Mitacs banner. There were 8 very outstanding initiatives highlighted and honoured. These award-winning undertakings were fascinating, socially relevant, pertinent for entrepreneurial action in science, medicine, indigenous life, international collaboration, and the creation of new thinking models. Very laudable on…
November 30th, 2022
This semester, the Interprofessional Education team has implemented many successful learning opportunities for the medical technology and health students. As always, the team鈥檚 mission is to create and implement IPE learning opportunities that help the students learn with, from, and about each other in order to improve the quality of patient/client care. Here are just…
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