There are almost endless ways to do active learning and it can be adapted to various disciplines, spaces and personal preferences. Throughout the 10th anniversary of the Dawson Active Learning Community in 2022, champions from a variety of disciplines were highlighted in Dawson鈥檚 e-newsletter, D News, and on social media. The anniversary created opportunities to…
Dawson鈥檚 H茅l猫ne Nadeau has been selected by the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) for the 2022 CAP Award for Excellence in Teaching High School/CEGEP Physics (Quebec and Nunavut). This is 鈥渞ecognition of her dedication to teaching physics and the development of students鈥� experimental and research skills,鈥� stated the CAP in their news release: CAP Award…
The first workshop on Ices in the Solar System: A Volatile-Excursion from Mercury and the Moon to the Kuiper Belt and Beyond, took place at 张百乔女友裸照 from Jan. 9 to 11. The workshop, the only NASA sanctioned event held outside of the United States, was co-convened by Dawson鈥檚 Richard Soare (faculty, Geography) and Jim…
(MONTREAL-Dec. 15, 2022) -The Board of Governors of 张百乔女友裸照 is pleased to announce the appointment of Leanne Bennett as Academic Dean for a term of five years. Currently Dawson鈥檚 Dean of Science, Medical Studies and Engineering, Leanne has been at Dawson since 2002 in various roles, including as a teacher of humanities and an…
The Dawson Teachers鈥� Union Polytechnique Memorial Scholarship is given to a student who has shown a commitment to persevering and overcoming obstacles within their field. This year, the award was given to Fred-Dgennie Louis, a student in Computer Science, who said: 鈥淚t means a lot and I am very grateful. It was the least thing…
Twenty-eight Dawson students in various programs participated in the very first industrial design contest entitled L’Odyss茅e de L’Objet en 48h, which took place Nov. 4-6 at C茅gep de Vieux Montr茅al.聽Dawson students won five of the eight categories on composting, a theme that was only revealed on day one of the competition. Dawson鈥檚 gold medalists, 3rd-year…
The inaugural Harry Fainsilber Memorial Award was given to Parnia Akhavansaffar at the Fall Awards Night on Nov. 24. Several family members of the beloved Mathematics teacher who passed away in 2015 were in attendance. The award was created by the Fainsilber family to recognize a student who has demonstrated perseverance and determination in the…
At Fall Awards Night on Nov. 24, Susan and Michael Howlett were at Dawson for the presentation of the Anne-Marie Howlett Memorial Award in honour of their late sister and daughter, who was in her first year of Nursing when she passed away tragically 40 years ago. Since then, it is estimated that well over…
In early November, there was a reunion of the 2021-鈥�22 Dawson High Energy Particle聽(HEP)聽Physics Group. The occasion was receiving (and experimenting with) their prize pack from CERN’s Annual Beamline 4 Schools Competition. Among the 304 teams from around the world, the Dawson team was shortlisted, which earned them a particle physics kit (cosmic ray detector,…
Dawson faculty members share their experiences about adopting active learning pedagogy and some examples of how it enriches learning in a bilingual video made on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Dawson Active Learning Community (DALC). The video features interviews with Jean-Fran莽ois Bri猫re (Physics), Daniel Goldsmith (Humanities),聽Selma Hamdani (Psychology), Carmen Leung (Chemistry), and…
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