Psychology Profile celebrates Brain Day April 8
April 6th, 2022
On April 8, the Psychology Profile is organizing two events that celebrate the advances in brain science and promote awareness of the mind, body and mental health connection.
The first event is a guest talk by Dr. Mike RobinsonÌý²¹³ÙÌý10:05 a.m. (via Zoom). Â His talk entitled "Generating Excessive Desire by Optogenetic Stimulation of the Central Amygdala"Â will be hosted in the context of a General Psychology class. All are welcome to join us at 10:05. Email psychology@dawsoncollege.qc.ca to get the Zoom link. In case you can't make it, you will still have an opportunity to view the talk a little later in our Psychology STREAM Channel (link in Read More).
The second event of the day will be a Trivia Game held at 2:30 p.m. in room 3F.38. Students who wish to participate will have to register by contacting psychology@dawsoncollege.qc.ca. Winners will earn fantastic prizes.
April 6th, 2022
In an effort to Indigenize curriculum and re-Indigenize a small piece of occupied Tiohtià :ke (Montreal), students, staff, and faculty from the First Peoples Centre and the Decolonization and Indigenization Studies Certificate launched the Wáhta Óshes (maple syrup) project last March to share the Indigenous roots of making maple syrup.  Ryder Cote-Nottaway, an Algonquin student,…
Physical Education Department addresses climate action
April 6th, 2022
The ecological footprint of each Physical Education course at Dawson is being tracked in a pilot project of the department with support from Anna Likht and Rafael Scapin of Information Systems and Technology and the Sustainability Office.
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April 6th, 2022
Joe Rose was a Dawson nursing student and AIDS activist who wanted to start a Montreal edition of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an international grassroots political group that is working to end the AIDS pandemic. While attending Dawson in 1985, he founded the Etcetera Club, a safe space for LGBT students. On…
2021 Virtual Field Trip to Cuba video
March 23rd, 2022
During the online learning period of the pandemic, teachers had to be very resourceful and adapt their plans.
Instead of actually going to Cuba in 2021, students in the North-South Studies Profile of Social Science took a virtual field trip to Cuba thanks to an imaginative work-around developed by North-South Studies faculty and partners in Cuba.
You can watch their virtual field trip video by clicking on the link in Read More.
Petition to add Social Service to Bourses Perspective program
March 9th, 2022
The Quebec Government has launched a new program called which are incentive scholarships for Québec students who are enrolled full-time in various programs at Québec CEGEPs, private colleges and universities. It is intended to increase the number of qualified individuals in the fields prioritized by the government due to a labour shortage in essential public services as well as in strategic economic sectors.
You have three more days to add your name to a petition calling on the government to add the Social Service Program.
February 16th, 2022
We welcomed at least 80 classes to Social Science Week events last week, and every session had individual students in attendance as well, so there were roughly 3,000 participants overall. Over twenty-three sessions and five days, we had sessions that talked about issues ranging from student anxiety, gun violence, transcinema, medical colonialism, climate change initiatives…
Dawson’s health students learning together through Interprofessional Education
February 2nd, 2022
ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ÊÓƵ may be in the news this week because funding for a new pavilion was scuttled by the Quebec government, but the driving principles behind the need and purpose of the facility remain for an innovative, unique-in-Quebec Interprofessional Education Pedagogy (IPE) project.
Click Read More for an update on the IPE project from the team as well as some complementary information about the pavilion project.
February 2nd, 2022
Augmented Reality is poised to enter mainstream culture with a splash — and a group of Dawson students have been riding that wave with style. Experimenting with the rapidly evolving new tech, they’re creating a lively ‘pop app’, pedagogical and entertaining at the same time, that’s inspired by the college itself and its downtown Montreal…
Meet Elaine Gusella, Dawson’s new IVGD co-coordinator
January 19th, 2022
Elaine Gusella is living out her professional dreams as the new co-coordinator of the Independent Video Game Design (IVGD) AEC Program at ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ÊÓƵ and as a partner in Artifact 5, an independent video game studio.
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