As part of this year’s Humanities and Public Life Conference, students from all programs and profiles were invited to submit creative work connecting the conference theme to their Humanities course content. The 2025 theme, Hope and Despair: How and Why We Map Out the Future, encouraged participants to explore how hope and despair shape our visions…
The Professional Theatre Department's next play, The Women, is a satirical comedy set in the 1930s. Mary Haines is a wealthy, New-York-City socialite who discovers that her husband is cheating on her with a younger woman. Mary’s socialite, gossipy, so-called friends counsel her to get a divorce and take her husband for everything he’s got. Mary ends up in Reno with a handful of other divorcees and thinks she’s made a mistake. She sets out to reclaim her husband, but at what cost? A searing, satirical comedy of manners that skewers the privileged class and leaves no sex unscathed. Free previews on Nov. 10 and 11, runs Nov. 12-22. $6.18 for Dawson community. Performed by the third-year students and directed by Matt Holland.
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Nicola Martino, a teacher in Dawson’s Modern Languages Department, served as a guest speaker at an international panel discussion held on Oct. 11 in Matera, Italy. The event marked the official launch of Colobraro: Diario di Comunità, a book and research project exploring themes of identity, belonging, and migration in southern Italy.
Nicola contributed an article blending a personal story with reflections on immigration and cultural identity. The year-long project and its publication were coordinated by Concetta Sarlo and Maria Sarlo, in collaboration with the ITALEA program—an initiative supported by Italy’s Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and funded through NextGenerationEU.
Political Science teachers Vanessa Gordon and Dónal Gill, both currently teaching at Dawson College, have co-authored the newly released 7th edition of Politics, Power, and the Common Good: An Introduction to Political Science, published by Pearson Canada. This comprehensive textbook is being used at universities across Canada, and may be available in French in the future.
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Dawson’s 4th annual Interprofessional Education (IPE) Symposium on Communication, conflict resolution, and collective care took place Friday, Oct. 17. This activity brought together all 216 students and 32 instructors/facilitators from the seven medical technology and social service disciplines. The day’s activities took place in a variety of venues in the Montreal Forum building, including a large cinema theatre.
Visit the link for a homepage report by Krista Bulow (Faculty, Physiotherapy Technology).
Dawson French teacher Laurent Duval was recently honoured with a Mention d’honneur from the Association québécoise de pédagogie collégiale (AQPC). This recognition celebrates his dedication to student success, commitment to inclusive and innovative teaching practices, and his active role in supporting French-language education both at Dawson and across Quebec. He recently sat down for a Q & A with the Communications Office to share his thoughts on receiving this honour, his teaching philosophy, and his contributions to the community.
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The Dawson community came through on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 at the Héma-Québec blood drive on campus. A total of 158 donors gave blood over the two days surpassing the drive's goal set by Héma-Québec. Thank you!
Three Dawson teachers, Maria Lavoie (Diagnostic Imaging), Lei Lopez (Computer Science) and Jim Parthimos (Business Administration), have now completed a Master of Education in College Teaching (M.Ed.) through the Performa program at the University of Sherbrooke. They shared their projects, how they developed as teachers and more in a Q & A with the Communications office.
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Nine Dawson College students were in Hamburg, Germany for two weeks in September after winning a major international science competition. The “Dawson Technicolor” team were at DESY, Germany’s renowned particle physics laboratory, to test their own detector using a particle accelerator.
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Two accomplished graduates of Dawson College’s Professional Theatre program are inviting you to see the downtown Montreal CEGEP in a self-guided tour. Catherine Bérubé and Lucy Segal are the narrators. In interviews with the Communications Office, they shared how Dawson shaped their own journeys. The tour departs from the metro level in the Lower Atrium, look for a framed sign with the QR code on the right wall as you enter the college.
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Last Modified: November 5, 2025
