Quebec first: Dawson students bound for Hamburg after winning global science competition
August 27th, 2025
Nine Dawson College students are heading to Hamburg this September after winning a major international science competition. The “Dawson Technicolor” team will spend two weeks at DESY, Germany’s renowned particle physics laboratory, to test their own detector using a particle accelerator.
The student-initiated project began nearly a year ago in the context of the Dawson High Energy Physics group, led by Physics faculty members Manuel Toharia and Joel Trudeau. With funding from the Dawson Foundation, the team designed and built a muon detector called The Scintillating Chamber during the winter 2025 semester. Teacher Manuel believes this prototype was key to the team’s winning proposal in CERN’s prestigious Beamline for Schools (BL4S) competition.
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Celebrating a Decade of Dawson’s Research in Neuroscience Program
August 27th, 2025
This summer, Dawson’s renowned Research in Neuroscience Program marked its 10th anniversary with a lively celebration on Aug. 7. Coordinators Hélène Nadeau (Faculty, Physics) and Sylvia Cox (Faculty, Psychology) welcomed current interns and alumni for an afternoon of reflection, inspiration, and connection.
Read about the impact of the program in the homepage news story.
Dawson students going to Canada-Wide Science Fair
May 14th, 2025
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. Visit the link to read the Q & A.
Environmental award for Dawson team at Science, on tourne!
May 14th, 2025
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 in reality is different than what we see on paper,” they said in a team interview about the competition. “There are often many more factors and variables in a real scenario than one may expect. In addition, we learnt the importance of thorough planning.”
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Best of the Dawson Blues 2025
May 14th, 2025
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, basketball player and cross-country runner Mia Simpson who received Female Athlete of the Year, basketball player Raphael Joseph who was named Male Athlete of the Year, rower Nicole Motta who was named Female Academic Athlete of the Year and cross-country runner Tian Yi Xia who was named Male Academic Athlete of the Year.
The Communications Office interviewed some of the recipients about balancing athletics and academics, teamwork and more. Visit the link to read the Q & A.
Interview with Chris Adam on the occasion of his retirement
May 14th, 2025
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.
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Creating Powerful Learning Experiences through Virtual Reality Pedagogy
May 14th, 2025
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.
Dawson College teachers Selma Hamdani and Annie-Hélène Samson are leading a Virtual Pedagogies project, supported by ECQ funding, to bring more of these immersive, embodied learning experiences to students.
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Exploring Quebecois literature in French and English at Dawson
April 30th, 2025
The diverse, multicultural and unique community of Dawson College is a place where barriers come down, where students from different backgrounds sit next to each other and where the value of well-being for all is promoted. Even teachers of French and English are coming together at Dawson!
Dawson teachers Carmen-Silvia Cristea (Faculty, French) and Jeff Gandell (Faculty, English) met through Writing in the Disciplines (WID), a Dawson community of practice focused on pedagogy and curriculum development related to writing, critical thinking and active learning.
“We really connected on teaching literature in a creative way,” Jeff said in an interview with Dawson’s Communications Office.
As a response to Law 14 (also known as Bill 96), Carmen and Jeff co-created a learning community and piloted their project in the Winter 2024 semester. “There was a lot of fear and anxiety, and I thought, how can we take this and turn it into something positive?” Jeff recalled. It seemed natural to work with Carmen since they had already worked together on a project for WID.
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200 teachers a semester!
April 10th, 2025
The Communications Office believes we all need inspiration these days so we are launching our "Inspired Teaching" series and are open to your suggestions for future features. Paul Wasacz, a teacher of Physical Education, is our first feature.
It might sound like a cliché, but CEGEP students truly do want to make the world a better place, says Paul.
“They want to make a difference and wish to be taken seriously,” he said. “They have opinions and thoughts, and they want to be heard. They are industrious and creative and able to find solutions. If you give them ownership and a say, they run with it.”
This is what happens in his Eco-Landscaping course, a popular course he launched in 2022 with support from Richard Montreuil in Physical Education and Chris Adam in the Office of Sustainability. The course was initially proposed by former colleague Anthony Berkers. “I was the lucky one who got to teach it,” he said. Previous classes have created the Dawson wetlands, overhauled sections of the Peace Garden, set up a Hugel garden (German for hill or mound), and helped make the First Peoples’ Centre Garden.
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Cin l Comm teacher Dipti Gupta shares ideas for building peace
March 24th, 2025
One person, one soul, one body through patience and persistence can turn a barren landscape into a thriving lush forest.
This is the story of The Man Who Planted Trees, a short film by Frédéric Back based on the story by Jean Giono.
Dipti Gupta, a teacher in Cinema l Communications at Dawson, spoke about the film and the impact of just one person in a talk for students in the Peace Studies Certificate on March 14.
Visit the link for the homepage news story and to see a photo of Dipti with Frédéric Back.
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