In celebration of its 10th anniversary, the Dawson Active Learning Community (DALC) has named 10 of its faculty members 鈥淒ALChampions鈥� in honour of their extraordinary contributions to innovating the classroom experience. DALC is a group of teachers from various disciplines that strives to improve teaching and learning through Active Learning (AL) pedagogical practices, and the…
The Liberal Arts Brick Books Poetry Prize is聽awarded this year to聽Catherine Salkeld聽for showing promise in poetry writing.
Catherine鈥檚 winning sonnet, 鈥淗allowed Ground鈥欌�� will be published in the 2022 Liberal Arts Anthology. The prize, sponsored for the past eight years by Canadian poetry publisher Brick Books,聽will be awarded at the launch of the Anthology on May 12.
Kudos to Catherine and to the following poets whose work earns honourable mention:
Beatriz Artmann Sherren, 鈥淗olding onto my faith,鈥� 鈥淭hings that sing鈥�
Harriette Bambrough, 鈥樷�橳his is for You,鈥� 鈥淗arriette,鈥� 鈥淧oor聽Investments鈥�
Tess Harty, 鈥淔or the Girl, at the Crux of Her Womanhood,鈥� 鈥淭hings I am Grateful for鈥�
Greta Rotzetter, 鈥淧oem to my brother and sister鈥�
Elliott Trembecka,聽鈥渂urning, burning.鈥�
Less than a year after receiving the international gold nomination by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), 成人黑料 has won the Silver Excellence in Sustainable Development Award at the annual Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan) Conference. Director General Diane Gauvin was present to accept the honour at the聽conference held…
In celebration of its 10th anniversary, the Dawson Active Learning Community (DALC) has named 10 of its faculty members 鈥淒ALChampions鈥� in honour of their extraordinary contributions to innovating the classroom experience. DALC is a group of teachers from various disciplines that strives to improve teaching and learning through Active Learning (AL) pedagogical practices, and the…
Eight Dawson students have presented the work they have been doing at ScienceFest 2022 as interns as part of DawsonAI鈥檚 collaboration with industry partner Ciena, a postdoctoral researcher and university partners from Concordia and 脡TS to promote the study of innovative AI-enabled applications for the future of 5G in Canada. This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity…
The provincial Forces Avenir recognition program is back at Dawson after several years鈥� absence. Colleges and CEGEPs in Qu茅bec, as a group, chose not to participate until the process of nomination and selection was streamlined. For the first time in a long time, the program is back at the CEGEP level. Dawson鈥檚 only previous recipient…
Three new Learning Community projects are in development this Winter 2022 semester.聽 Two projects,聽Physics for Physiotherapy听补苍诲听Inter-professional Education, illustrate the continued expansion of LC curriculum development to career programs, specifically in the medical technologies, where collaboration between program and contributing discipline faculty aims to optimize student learning.聽 A third project,聽LCs for Small Social Science Disciplines, is developing a new model for pairing courses by way of a common time-block, a complementary theme, and integrative learning activities.
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Vernissage Season is back in person at Dawson and begins on May 19 with the Visual Arts Vernissage. Graduating students from our arts programs will be presenting their work.
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It鈥檚 the first-ever SPACE (Sciences Participating with Arts and Culture in Education) Week at Dawson!
From robotics demos to a collective drawing activity, the entire Dawson community is invited to experience exhibitions, project displays, interactive activities and more presented by the student enrichment initiative SPACE, which promotes exploration, discussion, and collaboration beyond the classroom and across disciplines.
As part of this week, Dawson Science student Michael Bomba unveiled an electric guitar he built from scratch in tribute to the Fender Broadcaster, or "The Blackguard", which was the prototype for the first mass-produced solid-body electric guitars in the late '40s.
Pictured from left to right: SPACE Coordinator and Physics teacher Joel Trudeau, student Michael, IST team member and musician Kirk Fontaine and Academic Development officer and SPACE assistant Ursula Sommerer.
Discover more of what SPACE week has to offer on Dawson's Events Calendar at
All events take place in 3C.1 unless indicated otherwise.
Currently, Rotshenn贸n:ni Two-Axe and Kayla Spencer-Young are two of a handful of Indigenous students in Dawson鈥檚 Science Program.
Rotshenn贸n:ni and Kayla wanted to encourage and support their fellow Indigenous students who may be interested in Science. They came up with an idea last semester that has won them the local award and put them in the running for the provincial award, which will be announced at an event in Quebec City in September.
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Last Modified: May 19, 2022
