{"id":1006,"date":"2016-10-24T15:15:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T19:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2021-08-04T16:58:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T20:58:48","slug":"catherine-fichten-adds-latest-research-award-to-her-list-of-honours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/catherine-fichten-adds-latest-research-award-to-her-list-of-honours\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Fichten adds latest research award to her list of honours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 18, Dr. Catherine Fichten of the Psychology department and Adaptech at Dawson was honoured with the Prix ACFAS Denise-Barbeau for research in social and human sciences at the college level. A reception held for nine ACFAS award-winning scholars noted Catherine\u2019s exemplary vocation for the integration of students with disabilities, but also paid tribute to her perhaps lesser-known research passion that affects a great number of people, sleep disorders such as apnea, insomnia and chronic fatigue syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>At Dawson, Catherine\u2019s strides in adaptive technologies has led to the creation of the Adaptech research centre, a leader in its field. The Adaptech Research Network has involved a team of academics, students and consumers who have conducted research since 1996 with Canadian college and university students with a variety of disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>She was honoured last March with the Fred Strache Leadership Award by California State University at its Annual International Technology &#038; Persons with Disabilities Conference in March 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Catherine! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 18, Dr. Catherine Fichten of the Psychology department and Adaptech at Dawson was honoured with the Prix ACFAS Denise-Barbeau for research in social and human sciences at the college level. A reception held for nine ACFAS award-winning scholars noted Catherine\u2019s exemplary vocation for the integration of students with disabilities, but also paid tribute&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,105],"tags":[60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}