Projects Category
March 24th, 2016
During the Study Break, 15 members of the ÕÅ°ÙÇÇÅ®ÓÑÂãÕÕ Model United Nations, and two members of the faculty, attended Harvard’s World Model United Nations in Rome. WorldMUN is considered the Olympics of the Model UN circuit, bringing together over 2400 delegates from 110 countries for this event. A central purpose of Model UN is…
February 1st, 2016
It all began a year ago in an Acrylic Painting class. Many hundreds of hours later and involving the collaboration of over two hundred students, faculty and staff from various programs and departments, and student teams from Cinema-Communications, Community Recreation Leadership Training, Electronics Engineering Technology, Illustration & Design, Industrial Design, Mechanical Engineering Technology and Visual…
January 21st, 2016
A joint project between the Kinesiology Department at Université de Montréal and the Physiotherapy Technology programs at Dawson and Cégep Marie-Victorin to develop intelligent technology in the field is making its mark with the development of tools, including smartphone apps, for use in therapy. The project, acronym TEKPHY, has been developing a tool for balance…
October 1st, 2015
As part of the Living Campus initiative with Sustainable Dawson, faculty, students and staff nurtured monarch chrysalises and caterpillars over the last three weeks. The pièce de résistance was the tagging and releasing of 175 monarch butterflies into the Peace Garden. According to the World Wildlife Federation, the monarch butterfly will travel between 2,000 –…
June 17th, 2015
Four students from the Environmental Studies Profile and Environmental Science programs at ÕÅ°ÙÇÇÅ®ÓÑÂãÕÕ are benefitting from two new international partnership agreements with institutions in Mexico as a part of the Campus Sustainability initiative. Morgen Bertheussen, Alberta Byers, Ella Martin and Mikayla Salmon-Beitel are first year ÕÅ°ÙÇÇÅ®ÓÑÂãÕÕ students who are currently in Mexico to…
April 15th, 2015
This summer, four students from Dawson’s environmental profiles in both sciences and social sciences will embark on a six week internship to two Universities in the State of Morelos, Mexico to share ideas about sustainability and learn new practices. While in Mexico, we will work on the day to day maintenance of existing projects at…
October 8th, 2014
Pitch your big idea during this year’s edition of Dawson’s Den and you might win some amazing prizes. Do you have a BIG IDEA? Want to win amazing prizes? This year’s Entrepreneurship Week (EWeek) is even better than last year’s. You do not want to miss this opportunity to meet cool, hip entrepreneurs and to…
August 7th, 2014
Are you a full-time student in any one of our ÕÅ°ÙÇÇÅ®ÓÑÂãÕÕ programs? Did you know that a founder of a company does not necessarily come out of a business program? One of our recent graduates of Social Sciences started a company in the entertainment and mobile app business. He followed his passion and is…
June 10th, 2014
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…
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