AI Grants Awarded to Dawson Researchers
Congratulations to both Catherine Fichten and Joel Trudeau on each being awarded $100,000 towards AI research from Pôle montréalais d’enseignement supérieur en intelligence artificielle (PIA)! In collaboration with Concordia, McGill’s teaching hospital, Lady Davis Institute, and Cégep Andé-Laurendeau, Catherine and her team will be examining how virtual assistants and AI-based smartphone apps help post-secondary students with disabilities…
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New Books by Dawson Faculty
Joss Whedon Vs. The Horror Tradition: The Production of Genre in Buffy and Beyond Edited by Kristopher Karl Woofter and Lorna Jowett This book examines the work of writer-director-producer Joss Whedon within a horror tradition that has formed its main source of inspiration and critique. The collection’s 15 chapters situate Whedon’s productions and critical pretensions…
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Celebrate Research 2019
On May 23, 2019, faculty and staff came together for the annual celebration to recognize the achievements of Dawson researchers and to mark another great year of research and pedagogical innovation at Dawson College. Dr. Richard Fournier was presented with the Annual Research Recognition Award, in recognition of his research accomplishments in the field mathematics…
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Oral History Association Best Book Award for 2019
Stacey Zembryzcki, who teaches in History at Dawson College, and her co-editors received the Oral History Association’s Best Book Award for 2019. Their book, titled, Beyond Women’s Words: Feminisms and the Practices of Oral History in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2018) brings together scholars and activists in the field of feminist oral history. It uses…
Read More about Oral History Association Best Book Award for 201988th ACFAS Congress
The 88th ACFAS Congress will be taking place from May 4 to 8, 2020 at the University of Sherbrooke and Bishop’s University. For more information visit: https://www.acfas.ca/evenements/congres
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Celebrate Research 2018
On May 24, 2018, faculty and staff came together for the annual celebration to recognize the achievements of Dawson researchers and to mark another great year of research and pedagogical innovation at Dawson College. Elizabeth Charles was presented with the Annual Research Recognition Award, in recognition of her research accomplishments in pedagogical research and her…
Read More about Celebrate Research 2018Research and Sustainability at Dawson
Sustainability has a strong presence at Dawson College, reflected in the many projects and initiatives undertaken in the past 10 years. Most recently, it has been noted as one of the foundational goals in the Dawson College Strategic Plan 2016-2021. Building on its achievements, Dawson aims to become a leader in the field of sustainability…
Read More about Research and Sustainability at DawsonNew Grants Awarded to Dawson Researchers
Congratulations! Dawson researchers were successful in their grant applications submitted this past year, with three new grants awarded for 2017-2018. Liz Charles, Chris Whittaker, Yann Brouillette and team (Pedagogy, Sciences) Liz and the team will continue their research on active learning classrooms through their new grant project funded by PAREA titled, « Gestion et régulation du…
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Congratulations to Stewart Cooke, Stacey Zembrzycki and Nancy Rebelo, who were awarded grants from SSHRC this spring! Stewart Cooke (English Literature) was awarded his third Insight Grant to continue his work on an annotated scholarly edition of the letters of Charles Burney, Vol 4. Burney was an 18th century English musician, composer and man of…
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Congratulations to Catherine Fichten and her Adaptech team who received a Partnership Engage Grant from SSHRC this fall. The team will partner with l’Association québécoise pour l’équité et l’inclusion au postsecondaire (AQEIPS) to create a bilingual online survey tool to evaluate successful employment search and job maintenance strategies for students with disabilities in postsecondary education….
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