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A Quebec first: Creation of a scientific diplomacy chair specializing in Far North and outer space issues

November 20, 2025

Polytechnique Montréal is home to Quebec’s first international research chair in science diplomacy, dedicated to the challenges of the Far North and outer space. Named the International Science Diplomacy Research Chair for Arctic and Space Cooperation, it ...

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Four Polytechnique Montréal faculty members awarded research funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Government of Québec

August 29, 2023

Professors Sampada Bodkhe, Marco Bonizzato, Elmira Hassamzadeh and Pooneh Maghoul have been awarded funding for their respective research projects from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund and the Government of Québec. ...

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Professor Pooneh Maghoul recognized by the Canadian Geotechnical Society

October 18, 2022

Pooneh Maghoul, Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering, has been selected to be a Colloquium speaker at the Canadian Geotechnical Society's Annual Conference in 2023. This honour has been awarded to emerging ...

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NASA Haughton-Mars Project: for the first time, a Polytechnique student joins the mission

August 31, 2022

Gabriel Dubé, a bachelor’s student in aerospace engineering, flew to Devon Island, Nunavut, on August 3 for a three-week mission as part of the Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) to conduct future exploration experiments on the Moon and Mars. He is the first Pol ...

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An earthworm robot… for the Moon!

With its robot inspired by earthworms and snakes, a team at Polytechnique Montréal and the University of Manitoba (Mahdi Alaei, PhD student and Professor Nan Wu) is planning to provide space agencies and commercial planetary exploration companies with a ...

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Permafrost: learning to build on shifting soil

In the Far North, melting permafrost is disrupting the lives of thousands in their communities. (PHOTO: Wojtek Gajek, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences) At a time when the world is attempting to curb carbon emissions, the inhabitants o ...

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