70 Dawson students signed up for AI workshops this fall
September 21st, 2022
Dawson AI and are hosting a series of workshops, which will give Dawson students the opportunity to learn AI through hands-on learning. The workshop series will cover a wide range of AI topics including data manipulation, fundamental machine learning models, deep learning, reinforcement learning and other advanced topics.
70 Dawson students are signed up to take part in the workshops. The series of eight workshops will begin this Saturday, Sept. 24 and end on Nov. 19. Students will have the opportunity to present their work and learnings at the end of the program.
This workshop series is available to college students in Quebec and is made possible by the generous funding of a NovaScience Program grant awarded to DawsonAI from the Minist猫re de l鈥櫭塩onomie et de l鈥橧nnovation.
Click Read More for a look at the AI Launch Lab Fall 2022 program.
Academic Skills Centre workshops starting Sept. 26
September 21st, 2022
The Academic Skills Centre is running a series of seven workshops to help students prepare for, take and evaluate their own performance. The workshops run from Sept. 26 through Oct. 5. Please encourage your students to sign up.
In the workshops they will:
- Explore different ways to prepare for exam formats: essay, short answer, multiple choice
- Improve their strategies for taking exams
Fall 2022 Open House at Dawson
September 21st, 2022
Here is the experience of Dawson's Open House 2022. Newly added: a webinar on our brand new Social Science Program at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 25.
For your information and to share with the senior high schoolers and parents in your life, click Read More.
Students tackle climate change by building wetland as part of unique Phys. Ed. course
September 7th, 2022
A class of over 25 students reclaimed a concrete heat island on Dawson鈥檚 urban campus by transforming it into a wetland as part of a unique-in-Canada Physical Education course. The brand-new Eco-Landscaping course was co-developed by Dawson鈥檚 Physical Education Department and the Sustainability Office.
For the homepage news story, click Read More.
September 7th, 2022
Creative Collective for Change is asking the Dawson community to make a Critical Commotion around ideas of law enforcement. With the help of the Dawson alumni group, Peace Week, the DSU and Humanities and Public Life Conference, they will be doing a series of events that spark conversation by asking: What is your experience with…
What’s on at the Gallery this year?
September 7th, 2022
Anna Williams: An Unquiet Mythology听
Fine Arts Biennial 15听
Photography Department 5th Semester Exhibition听
AEC Photography Program Graduates听
Andrew Ooi and Nico Williams听
Renee Condo: Solo听
Visual Arts Graduates听听
Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer will give Peace Week keynote Sept. 15
September 7th, 2022
Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer will offer perspectives on Indigenous sciences and western science in her Peace Week keynote address, entitled Confronting Western Science Epistemology, online at Dawson at 2 p.m. on Sept. 15. In her publications and her speaking engagements, she proposes a revolutionary way to rethink how we approach the land and the natural sciences.
Kimmerer听is a mother, scientist, decorated professor and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both Indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability.
Her interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land. She holds a BSc in Botany from SUNY ESF, an MS and PhD in Botany from the University of Wisconsin and is the author of听numerous听scientific papers on plant ecology, bryophyte ecology, traditional听knowledge听and restoration ecology.
To register for keynote by Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer on Sept. 15 at 2 p.m.:
For the full program and registration links for Peace Week at Dawson Sept. 13-21:
/peace-week/peace-week-schedule/
September 7th, 2022
Tell me about your experience with DALC. What has been the best part? Being a member of the DALC group was an invigorating and inspiring experience. As an architect, the best part was being involved in a design experiment. Using the active learning classrooms was a unique opportunity to test and observe the classroom environment….
Humanities and Public Life Conference Sept. 19-23
September 7th, 2022
The theme of this year's HPL Conference, taking place Monday, Sept. 19 to Friday, Sept. 29 at Dawson, is Crisis, Conflict and Resolution. How can the Humanities help us to understand and navigate the various challenges the world is facing? Join us for a week of fascinating presentations on the war in Ukraine, the pandemic's impact on the arts, how successful lawyers and real-estate developers use humanities in their workplace, and much more!
For the full program, including descriptions of talks and locations: HPL 2022 Program
2023 Viewbook is online
September 7th, 2022
Dawson's听 2023 Viewbook is available online: /about-dawson/viewbook听
Print copies will be available once the Social Science Program is updated, expected later this month.
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