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COVID-19: Polytechnique community members support the SantéLibre initiative

April 9, 2020

SantéLibre is positioning itself as a central platform to meet the urgent needs of Québec hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic. Members of the Polytechnique Montréal community are now supporting the initiative by helping to coordinate the work of San ...

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COVID-19: TransMedTech Institute is on track to enabling the reuse of N95 masks

April 8, 2020

In less than three weeks of work, several innovations are already emerging from the mobilization activities of the TransMedTech Institute. Among them are two procedures for rehabilitating N95 masks, initiatives to which professors from Polytechnique Montr ...

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COVID-19: Polytechnique Montréal answers the Québec government’s call to provide the health network with personal protective equipment

April 7, 2020

Staff members in Polytechnique’s departments and services quickly located, collected and coordinated the delivery of personal protective equipment to caregivers in Montréal, while complying with access and physical distancing constraints. ...

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COVID-19: A Polytechnique course maintained… by an Australian virtual microscope

April 2, 2020

In barely two weeks, many Polytechnique teachers had to adapt their courses to enable their students to continue their semester in distance-learning mode. In the coming days, we will be sharing some of their stories with you. The virtual microscope adop ...

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COVID-19: the Polytechnique Montréal community is involved in more than 10 projects

March 31, 2020

Several members of the Polytechnique community have launched initiatives in recent days in an effort to help halt the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and COVID-19. Here are some examples. ...

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Pierre Lassonde named Chair of Polytechnique Montréal’s Board of Directors

March 18, 2020

During the course of their regularily scheduled operations, the Québec government's Conseil des ministres today decreed that effective immediately, Pierre Lassonde has been named Chair of Polytechnique Montréal's Board of Directors. Lassonde, hi ...

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Polytechnique Montréal’s Sixth edition of the Order of the White Rose

March 8, 2020

Polytechnique Montréal will award a $30,000 scholarship to a Canadian woman engineering student who wishes to pursue graduate-level engineering studies. ...

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Work by engineering physics researchers ranked among the most important discoveries of the year by "Optics and Photonics News"

December 13, 2019

Work conducted by the team at the Canada Research Chair in Ubiquitous Terahertz Photonics, led by Professor Maksim Skorobogatiy, has been acclaimed among the most important discoveries of 2019 by a prestigious journal of the Optical Society. ...

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Édith Ducharme, fifth recipient of the Order of the White Rose

December 5, 2019

With pride and solemnity, Polytechnique Montréal’s Executive awards the Order of the White Rose to Édith Ducharme, and this, a day before the 30th anniversary of the December 6, 1989 tragedy. Ducharme is a Université Laval Engineering Physics graduate. Po ...

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Successful Instrument Guidance Through Deep and Convoluted Blood Vessel Networks

December 3, 2019

Latest breakthrough by Professor Sylvain Martel’s team at Polytechnique Montréal opens up new horizons for endovascular surgery. ...

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The Future Blossoms in our Hands: Sixth Edition of Polytechnique Montréal’s Week of the White Rose

December 2, 2019

With the approach of December 6, a solemn day of remembrance of the fact that 30 years ago, anti-women attack occurred, Polytechnique Montréal invites the general public to participate in symbolic and meaningful events that will take place during the Week ...

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Activities Commemorating December 6, 1989

November 29, 2019

Thirty years have passed since the anti-women attack that took the lives of 14 young women and injured 13 other individuals on December 6, 1989, at Polytechnique Montréal. To honour the memory of the victims of this tragedy, several commemorative activiti ...

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Advanced materials: $3M in funding for projects led by Professors Fabio Cicoira and Oussama Moutanabbir

November 25, 2019

Professor Fabio Cicoira, (Department of Chemical Engineering) and Professor Oussama Moutanabbir (Canada Research Chair in Nano and Hybrid Materials) of the Department of Engineering Physics, will each lead collaborative projects with close of $3M in fundi ...

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Professor François Bertrand receives honours

November 18, 2019

Professor François Bertrand, Senior Vice President and Vice President, Academic and Research at Polytechnique Montréal, was recently honoured with distinctions from two prestigious institutions who recognized his scientific contributions in the field of m ...

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Donna Strickland, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, meets the Polytechnique community

November 8, 2019

University of Waterloo physics professor Donna Strickland, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2018 for transposing the chirped-pulse amplification technique onto ultrashort lasers, visited our engineering university on Wednesday, November 6, 2 ...

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Inauguration of Station Polytechnique-Alstom: welcome aboard!

November 4, 2019

The Station Polytechnique Committee and Polytechnique Montréal inaugurate Station Polytechnique-Alstom, a repurposed métro car that will serve to promote wellness and raise community awareness of mental health issues. ...

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Researchers with Polytechnique and IBM “fold” a drop of water, solving a problem that has hindered development of portable diagnostic systems

October 8, 2019

If you’ve ever stopped to watch rain falling on a windowpane, you’ve seen what happens when two drops of water touch and merge into one. But you probably never imagined that the physics at work in this phenomenon was the key to unlocking a solution for th ...

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Polytechnique Montréal is the first university in Canada to earn Parity Certification

September 25, 2019

Polytechnique Montréal is unequivocally committed to ensuring equal opportunities for all – and to increasing the proportion of women on its staff and in its student body. In this spirit, it has just become the very first university in Canada to be awarde ...

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STARS Accreditation: Polytechnique earns Gold for sustainability

August 14, 2019

Change the world – all while bearing in mind social justice, environmental responsibility, and economic efficiency: every member of the Polytechnique community is committed to the same goal. This mobilization and unity is what helped Polytechnique Montré ...

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Projects led by three Polytechnique professors receive funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Government of Québec

August 12, 2019

Professors Éric Laurendeau, Oussama Moutanabbir, and Mohammad Sharawi have been awarded funding from the prestigious John-R.-Evans Leaders Fund (Canada Foundation for Innovation) and the Government of Québec for their innovative research projects. ...

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