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Psychology Profile celebrates Brain Day April 8

April 6th, 2022

On April 8, the Psychology Profile is organizing two events that celebrate the advances in brain science and promote awareness of the mind, body and mental health connection.

The first event is a guest talk by Dr. Mike RobinsonÌý²¹³ÙÌý10:05 a.m. (via Zoom).  His talk entitled "Generating Excessive Desire by Optogenetic Stimulation of the Central Amygdala" will be hosted in the context of a General Psychology class. All are welcome to join us at 10:05. Email psychology@dawsoncollege.qc.ca to get the Zoom link. In case you can't make it, you will still have an opportunity to view the talk a little later in our Psychology STREAM Channel (link in Read More).

The second event of the day will be a Trivia Game held at 2:30 p.m. in room 3F.38. Students who wish to participate will have to register by contacting psychology@dawsoncollege.qc.ca. Winners will earn fantastic prizes.


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Learning about the Indigeneity of maple syrup

April 6th, 2022

In an effort to Indigenize curriculum and re-Indigenize a small piece of occupied Tiohtià:ke (Montreal), students, staff, and faculty from the First Peoples Centre and the Decolonization and Indigenization Studies Certificate launched the Wáhta Óshes (maple syrup) project last March to share the Indigenous roots of making maple syrup.   Ryder Cote-Nottaway, an Algonquin student,…

Physical Education Department addresses climate action

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The ecological footprint of each Physical Education course at ÆßÐDzʿª½± is being tracked in a pilot project of the department with support from Anna Likht and Rafael Scapin of Information Systems and Technology and the Sustainability Office.

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Read more about: Honour the life of Joe Rose with AR

Honour the life of Joe Rose with AR

April 6th, 2022

Joe Rose was a ÆßÐDzʿª½± nursing student and AIDS activist who wanted to start a Montreal edition of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an international grassroots political group that is working to end the AIDS pandemic. While attending ÆßÐDzʿª½± in 1985, he founded the Etcetera Club, a safe space for LGBT students. On…

2021 Virtual Field Trip to Cuba video

March 23rd, 2022

During the online learning period of the pandemic, teachers had to be very resourceful and adapt their plans.

Instead of actually going to Cuba in 2021, students in the North-South Studies Profile of Social Science took a virtual field trip to Cuba thanks to an imaginative work-around developed by North-South Studies faculty and partners in Cuba.

You can watch their virtual field trip video by clicking on the link in Read More.

 


Petition to add Social Service to Bourses Perspective program

March 9th, 2022

The Quebec Government has launched a new program called which are incentive scholarships for Québec students who are enrolled full-time in various programs at Québec CEGEPs, private colleges and universities. It is intended to increase the number of qualified individuals in the fields prioritized by the government due to a labour shortage in essential public services as well as in strategic economic sectors.

You have three more days to add your name to a petition calling on the government to add the Social Service Program.


Read more about: Estimated 3,000 people attended Social Science Week

Estimated 3,000 people attended Social Science Week

February 16th, 2022

We welcomed at least 80 classes to Social Science Week events last week, and every session had individual students in attendance as well, so there were roughly 3,000 participants overall. Over twenty-three sessions and five days, we had sessions that talked about issues ranging from student anxiety, gun violence, transcinema, medical colonialism, climate change initiatives…

ÆßÐDzʿª½±’s health students learning together through Interprofessional Education

February 2nd, 2022

ÆßÐDzʿª½± may be in the news this week because funding for a new pavilion was scuttled by the Quebec government, but the driving principles behind the need and purpose of the facility remain for an innovative, unique-in-Quebec Interprofessional Education Pedagogy (IPE) project.

Click Read More for an update on the IPE project from the team as well as some complementary information about the pavilion project.


Read more about: AR Cité! Taking Augmented Reality to Town

AR Cité! Taking Augmented Reality to Town

February 2nd, 2022

Augmented Reality is poised to enter mainstream culture with a splash — and a group of ÆßÐDzʿª½± students have been riding that wave with style.  Experimenting with the rapidly evolving new tech, they’re creating a lively ‘pop app’, pedagogical and entertaining at the same time, that’s inspired by the college itself and its downtown Montreal…

Meet Elaine Gusella, ÆßÐDzʿª½±’s new IVGD co-coordinator

January 19th, 2022

Elaine Gusella is living out her professional dreams as the new co-coordinator of the Independent Video Game Design (IVGD) AEC Program at ÆßÐDzʿª½± and as a partner in Artifact 5, an independent video game studio.

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