Jonathon Sumner (Physics) started working on a live interactive graph project with the idea of showing the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic in different parts of the world, while normalizing for population size, as well as showing the impact of interventions like physical distancing.
Click Read More for the full news story and a link to the live graph.
Our Loran Scholar Margaux Ronci猫re聽(a 蘑菇视频 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.
Click Read More to listen to the interview.
蘑菇视频 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.
蘑菇视频 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:
Two Dawson Blues Division 1 Basketball players, Taisha Exanor and Mackenzie Ash-Smith, have made history! On March 18, the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) announced that Taisha and Mackenzie are recognized as 2020 CCAA Women鈥檚 Basketball All-Canadians.
The student-athletes are selected by their conference based on performance and contribution to the sport and their team. Dawson's conference is the R茅seau du sport 茅tudiant du Qu茅bec (RSEQ and our players were chosen by the RSEQ league coaches.
It is the first time since 1986 that two Blues were named All-Canadians, and it is the first-time since 2008 that an RSEQ team has two.
Click Read More to read the CCAA announcement featuring a little write up of each player.
蘑菇视频 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 Montr茅al and La Presse. Click Read More to read the article in La Presse.
The first International Day of Mathematics (March 14) was celebrated at Dawson on Thursday.
Andreea Panait of Dawson's Mathematics Department reported: "We started the day with some wonders in Mathematics, then we moved to the history of Calculus and we ended with some applied math in creating interesting apps. To complete the day, we gave prizes for the math poster contest."
Students聽Sara Boubekri (pictured with Andreea) and Zaina Mahran were the winners.
Greta Hofmann Nemiroff, a pioneer in Women's Studies in Canada and at 蘑菇视频, was here March 6 for a panel discussion moderated by Pat Romano about Women's Studies. The other panelists were聽Shree Mulay (Memorial University) and Alanna Thain (McGill University). Click Read More to find out more about the beginnings of Women's Studies 50 years ago and the state of it today.
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 -聽聽叠谤辞迟丑别谤丑辞辞诲听聽directed by聽Meryam Joobeur (Cin|Com alumna)
Oscar nomination in 2019 -聽Fauve聽directed by聽Jeremy Comte; produced by Evren Boisjoli (Cin|Com alumnus)
2019聽GRAND PRIX RPC脡 - FESTIVAL DU NOUVEAU CIN脡MA: 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聽
Go Dawson Blues! Dawson is hosting the Div. 1 provincial basketball championships this coming weekend. The Women鈥檚 Team will be playing for a spot to represent the RSEQ at the CCAA Nationals on Saturday, March 7聽at 12 p.m. The Men鈥檚 Team will play in a 录 final game on March 3. Check out the details in the Read More link.
CICan is partnering with Dawson and eight other colleges to help Canada reach the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). , with the support of the McConnell Foundation and the patronage of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, will help advance Canada鈥檚 commitment to sustainability.
Chris Adam, who represented Dawson, said: 鈥淚t was clear that the sustainability-related work implemented by Dawson staff and students is recognized across Canada as innovative, current and entrepreneurial!鈥�
Anyone interested in identifying how their existing course content meets SDGs or are interested in integrating SDGs into their programs, profiles or courses can contact Chris Adam.聽To read more about the project, see the CICan news release in the Read More link.
Last Modified: March 31, 2020
