At the Board of Governors meeting of Monday, June 9, Diane Gauvin was unanimously approved as the new Academic Dean (as per clause 4.11 of Bylaw 1) for a five-year term commencing November 15, 2014. She will take up her duties in the interim as outgoing Academic Dean Robert Kavanagh winds down toward his retirement…
It’s finally here – our Sponsor-A-Seedling IndieGogo campaign to raise funds for the Dawson Gardens Rooftop Project is officially launching today! All of us who are involved in this project are really excited to be beginning this fundraiser, and are hoping for as much community enthusiasm as possible. Please take a look at our IndieGogo…
Industrial Design student Nicholas Parent has won the Sustainable Design Award and a scholarship of $2,500 for Boardslide, a wall bracket system that can be used as a skateboard holder or can mount and reuse old skateboard decks as shelves. Some 2 million skateboard decks are landfilled each year. Parent says his design not only…
We are on a roll. Two graduates of Illustration & Design have captured top prizes at the annual Illustration Quebec competition. Antonio Junior Luzano was presented with the !Q award 2014 to highlight work excellence (left) and Annabelle Hauffe (right) with the !Q People’s Choice Award 2014. Congrats! Below is the work of the two…
The 24-hours of innovation challenge is a competition originating in France that challenges participants to propose solutions to problems presented by the community, industry or universities. This year鈥檚 challenges included engineering, design and quality of life challenges. Teams of 5 to 10 participants work together over a 24-hour period to prepare a proposal and pitch…
Congratulations to students Kento Takata (CRLT) and Victor Lewis (Cinema, Video & Communications) who created Dawson’s own version of the Happy video. Kento and Victor planned, recruited volunteers, filmed and edited this video in only 10 days and couldn’t have done it without all the student and faculty volunteers who took part in the video….
A huge thanks goes out to the thousand volunteers from the Dawson Community who helped make the Ecological Peace Garden a reality. It has just been designated a biodiversity garden, a bird garden and a monarch oasis by Espace pour la vie Montr茅al. A list of criteria set out by Espace pour la vie’s specialists…
The F茅d茅ration des c茅geps awarded its Prix du m茅rite to Keven Chan and Cristian David, students in Mechanical Engineering Technology, at the provincial final of 22nd annual science competition Science, on tourne! held this past weekend at Vanier College. Valued at $1,000 the award recognizes the team that submitted the best oral presentation, performance and…
At a special meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Governors on Monday, April 14, Carmela Gumelli was approved as the new Dean of Academic Systems upon unanimous recommendation of the Selection Committee. Carmela began at the College in July 2005 in a replacement position which she went on to fill permanently as…
星空传媒视频 will be hosting the launch event of Sustainable Happiness tonight to raise funds for the world鈥檚 first Sustainable Happiness scholarship and to announce a certificate that will be offered at 星空传媒视频. Partners 星空传媒视频, CCS Community Services and the Earthvalues Institute will sponsor the pilot certificate course in May to educate a…
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