On June 18, Alessia Panait stepped up to the podium as Dawson College’s evening valedictorian, representing the 2025 graduating class from programs spanning Arts, Literature and Communication, Science, Visual Arts, and a spectrum of technical fields. Chosen through a rigorous selection and interview process, Alessia, and her counterpart for the afternoon ceremony, Aya Tir, earned…
Chris Whittaker, a dedicated Physics teacher and educational innovator at Dawson College, has been awarded the 2025 SALTISE Lifetime Achievement Award. The honour, announced by SALTISE at their annual conference in June, recognizes Chris’s transformative impact on science education, his leadership in active learning, and his enduring commitment to the teaching community. A Journey from…
Azra Khan’s passionate and ongoing commitment to professional development of faculty, her leadership in educational innovation, and her unwavering focus on equity and student success was recognized by SALTISE at their annual conference on June 4-5. Azra received the SALTISE 2025 Best Practices & Pedagogical Innovators Award for Pedagogical Counsellors. Azra’s journey to this achievement…
Geography faculty member Dr. Gisela Frias has been recognized with the 2025 SALTISE Best Practices & Pedagogical Innovators Award. This honour celebrates Gisela’s transformative impact on teaching, learning, and community engagement at Dawson and beyond. A Pedagogical Innovator Gisela Frias holds a Ph.D. in Geography from McGill University and has been a cornerstone of Dawson’s…
A student can read about autism in a textbook or they can have a transformative learning experience that builds empathy by putting on a virtual reality headset and stepping into the world of someone living with autism. Two Dawson College teachers are leading a Virtual Pedagogies project, supported by ECQ funding, to bring more of…
Chris Adam, founder and first manager of Dawson’s Office of Sustainability, will be retiring this July. The Communications Office interviewed him about his career, his challenges and what he loved best about Dawson. Here is the Q & A. What year did you start working at Dawson? What roles did you hold? 1n 1987, CRLT hired…
Health & Life Sciences student Arielle Benarroch and Continuing Education Science student Nathan Aruna represented Dawson at the Super Expo-sciences Hydro-Québec provincials last month winning a silver medal and are now headed to the Canada-Wide Science Fair, May 31 – June 7. The Communications Office interviewed Arielle and Nathan about their experience. Tell us about…
Dawson Enriched Science students Liam Ali-Tse, Veronica Chneerov, and George Alshami say they “learned countless things that a classroom environment cannot teach” by participating in Science, on tourne!, a unique intercollegiate science and technology competition held annually in Quebec. They also won the environmental responsibility award, which was $1,000, and did very well overall. “Physics…
A new award celebrating exceptional team spirit has been presented for the first time to Dawson women’s basketball player Salina Haynes. The Troy Cornford Team Player Award honours the memory of Troy Cornford, who passed away in December 2024 after a courageous battle with ALS. It is funded by donations in his memory to the…
Dawson College student athletes who go above and beyond both at school and on the field/court/ice were honoured at the annual Athletics Awards evening on May 2. Noteworthy award recipients include hockey player Noémie Bastien who received the Rob Springer Memorial Award, basketball players Isaiah Graham-Roache and Regan Cornford who each received the Adele Ivy McDonald Walton Award,…
Last Modified: June 20, 2025
