Dawson College was in the news over the weekend because of the ministerial order from Health Minister Danielle McCann to redeploy employees of CEGEPs and school boards to work in the health sector.
April 12 CTV news report with Director General Richard Filion and Nursing teacher Fiona Hanley
April 13 City TV news report with Nursing teacher Sherry McMillan
The work of Physics teachers Jonathon Sumner, Sameer Bhatnagar and Jean-François Brière was in the news last week.
They developed an interactive live data visualization of COVID-19 focused on Quebec. The hope was to reinforce social distancing and create a positive feedback loop. Here are the TV reports that featured interviews with Jonathon and Sameer:
CTV National News April 1, 2020
The Montreal Gazette interviewed Academic Dean Diane Gauvin March 27 about moving courses online.
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Our Loran Scholar Margaux Roncière (a Dawson College student in her last year of Pure and Applied Science) was interviewed on CBC Radio's afternoon program Let's Go on March 16. The Loran is Canada's largest undergraduate scholarship.
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Dawson College is working on solutions to salvage the semester and applications are being processed as usual.
As of March 23, the Admissions Team had sent out 4,700 offers of admission.
Dawson College shared this news with our employees first and then with select media on March 20. CJAD 800 AM interviewed Director General Richard Filion during the Andrew Carter Morning Show March 23.
Our news was also shared by:
Dawson College student Tristan Hamer has created a volunteer movement of young people in high school and CEGEP to provide free or pay what you can babysitting services for people in need of childcare during the school shutdown. The students have been featured in Le Journal de Montréal and La Presse. Click Read More to read the article in La Presse.
On March 5, Elizabeth May gave a special lecture to Anna-Liisa Aunio's Environmental Seminar, which was moved to 3C.1 to allow over 200 students to attend. Elizabeth spoke about the urgent need to press the government to act on its commitment to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Click Read More for a news report about her talk.
Cinema-Communications is organizing a special screening of three films made by alumni that have been nominated or won major film prizes:
Oscar nomination in 2020 - Brotherhood directed by Meryam Joobeur (Cin|Com alumna)
Oscar nomination in 2019 - Fauve directed by Jeremy Comte; produced by Evren Boisjoli (Cin|Com alumnus)
2019 GRAND PRIX RPCÉ - FESTIVAL DU NOUVEAU CINÉMA: ILA Da Rainha, directed by Kayla Fragman (ALC alumna)
Screening and discussion with the filmmakers: March 27 at 2:30 p.m. in 4C.1
Two projects that count DawsonAI as a partner have been selected by PIA to go forward. The organizaiton made the announcement Feb. 26. Here are the two DawsonAI projects: How virtual assistants and applications powered by artificial intelligence can help promote student academic success. Comprising members from Dawson College, Concordia University and McGill University, the team…
The more than 300,000 people around the world who follow the social media gardening site Humans Who Grow Food met Jenn de Vera of the Sustainability Office. Jenn and her garden were featured Feb. 24. Click on Read More to see the post on Facebook and photos of Jenn's home garden.
Last Modified: April 14, 2020
