Dawson Chemistry teacher Carmen Leung 鈥渄edicates herself to teaching in ways that keep her students engaged and she contributes to all aspects of College life,鈥� reads the announcement from SALTISE.
This week, Carmen will be honoured with a 2021 SALTISE Best Practices & Pedagogical Innovators Award at the聽聽happening June 2-4.
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Dawson鈥檚 Psychology Profile Coordinator Selma Hamdani is incredibly grateful to receive a聽mention d鈥檋onneur聽from the聽Association qu茅b茅coise de p茅dagogie coll茅giale聽(AQPC).
鈥淲hatever I do, it is not by myself,鈥� she said. 鈥淪o many vibrant and great ideas are sparked everywhere at Dawson. I share this honour with the Dawson Active Learning Community (DALC), the Office of Academic Development, the Psychology Department, the Communities of Practice and so many other people who helped me be the teacher I am today. Dawson is fertile ground and a special community!鈥�
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Reflection on the Process 鈥� Chris Bourne This has been a fascinating project to work on, and a great introduction to building a paired course, particularly in the context of Social Science profiles. Catherine and I both teach courses in the Law, Society, and Justice Profile, and noticed that we often had common students who…
In 2018, the Academic Dean launched an initiative to rethink learning spaces and improve the learning environment in the college鈥檚 general-purpose classrooms. Teachers and students were surveyed about how these classrooms should be equipped and configured to facilitate student engagement. The findings were analyzed by Melanie Doyle (Psychology) and Leigh Shapiro (Interior Design), who presented…
A small group of Dawson faculty members opted to meet some of their students on campus for optional in-person classes when this was permitted from March 22-April 12. It was a lot of work to outfit classrooms with cameras and up-to-date technology in preparation for the in-person activities. Due to public health restrictions, a limited…
星空传媒视频 English Professor and poet Susan Elmslie is pleased to announce that Arwen Lawless Low & Lucie Markus have won this year鈥檚 Liberal Arts Brick Books Poetry Prize. The prize is awarded to a student in the second-term Liberal Arts poetry class who shows promise in poetry writing, as reflected in work completed in…
Vernissage Season begins on May 26 with a series of virtual events.
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Graduating Health Science students Isabeli Pizzani Maurutto and Jennifer Robert were selected by a jury as third-place winners of a province-wide competition for the best student research projects at the college level announced by the Association pour la recherche au coll茅gial (ARC) on May 11.
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Never ones to be daunted by a pandemic, a group of Liberal Arts students have been busy this past year writing and rehearsing a Zoom version of the annual "philosophy play."聽 The result is an uproarious comedy called B.A.B.O.O.N.,
Using utilitarian algorithms, an AI called BABOON (Beneficent Analytics Behavioural Optimization and Operationalization Network) has determined that a worldwide COVID lockdown will be made permanent. In order to address discontent with its decision, BABOON has convened a townhall meeting of "luminaries" from various areas of expertise. Hilarity ensues... until the discovery of a paradox in BABOON's programming leads to a dark and cataclysmic turn.
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The Illustration Program, the Sustainability Office and Taking Root Inc. collaborated on a project to capture key events of the migratory flight of two species of native Quebec birds from urban forests near 星空传媒视频 to the newly replanted forests of Nicaragua.
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Last Modified: June 1, 2021
