The determination and creativity of Dawson College Product Design student Uyen Dao have earned her the Prix Excelle Science, presented by the Ministère de l'Économie, de l'Innovation et de l'Énergie as part of the Chapeau! Les filles 2026 contest. The annual awards recognize women who choose careers and fields of study traditionally dominated by men.

Uyen described the recognition as the first "bloom" of her efforts and said it reassured her that she is on the right path after years of persistence and growth. She chose Dawson's Product Design program after realizing she wanted to do more than style products.

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Archival Anxiety in Documentary and Mockumentary Horror looks at the ways fiction and nonfiction media have turned to horror discourses in addressing a reality of increasingly overwhelming mediation. From the experimentally ambiguous approaches of "gothumentaries" (Gothic documentaries) such as Homo Sapiens (2016) and Interceptés (2024), to the obsessive chroniclers of screenlife and fake found footage works such as Unfriended (2014), and The Outwaters (2022), the book traces a generalized millennial and 21st-century archival anxiety around an unsettled and unsettling hypermediated reality.

Kristopher Woofter, PhD, teaches in the English Department at Dawson College. He has published widely on horror and related subjects, including eco-horror, eco-pessimism, and the Weird tradition. His forthcoming work includes the co-edited collections The Routledge Companion to Global Horror (January 2027) and The Oxford Handbook of Shirley Jackson (2028). He is the editor of the journal Monstrum.

Congratulations to CRLT faculty member, devoted community leader and volunteer Simeon Pompey on receiving an MNA Medal from Désirée McGraw, Member of the National Assembly for NDG. She recognized Simeon as a person who helps "shape our community and make it shine. Each of these recipients has left a lasting mark on our neighbourhood and on Quebec. In their respective fields, they represent the very best of NDG, embodying the strong sense of community that brings us together."