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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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Esteban Project solar car wins big at the 2019 Formula Sun Grand Prix competition in the U.S.

July 17, 2019

Piloting their prototype solar car Esteban 9, the Polytechnique student technical society team won the race on the American Solar Challenge closed course for the second year running, also setting a record and taking home the Teamwork Award. ...

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Research focused on discovery: Minister Kirsty Duncan highlights Canada’s support for researchers at Polytechnique

July 11, 2019

The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, federal Minister of Science and Sport, celebrated $10 million in scholarships and grants to more than 40 researchers at Polytechnique. ...

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Equity, diversity and inclusion in research: Polytechnique Montréal joins the Government of Canada’s Dimensions program

July 11, 2019

During a visit by the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, federal Minister of Science and Sport, Polytechnique Montréal officially endorses the charter of a federal program promoting equity, diversity and inclusion in research. ...

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Oronos Polytechnique and Formule Polytechnique Montréal earn first place in two prestigious international competitions

June 27, 2019

With their experimental rocket and race car prototypes, the aforementioned two student technical societies each took first place at the Spaceport America Cup (New Mexico) and Formula SAE (Lincoln, Nebraska), respectively. ...

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Polytechnique Convocation 2019: over 1,600 degrees awarded, including the 50,000th in its history!

June 19, 2019

At this year’s convocation ceremonies, Polytechnique Montréal awarded its 50,000th degree to Eva Terriault, in addition to Honorary Doctorates granted to Rubén Caballero and Hélène Desmarais. Awards of Excellence were received by Professors Jamal Chaouki ...

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Polytechnique Montréal and HEC Montréal enter into new partnership

June 11, 2019

With the International Economic Forum of the Americas Conference of Montréal in full swing, Polytechnique Montréal and HEC Montréal today announced the signing of a new partnership agreement under which the institutions will, among other things, create a ...

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La sonde atomique la plus performante d’Amérique du Nord s'installe à Polytechnique

14 novembre 2024

Polytechnique Montréal marque aujourd’hui un jalon important de son implication dans le développement de matériaux de haute technologie avec l’inauguration des installations de la première sonde atomique tomographique du Québec, la première de sa générati ...

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Aerospace: Safran draws on Polytechnique Montréal expertise

April 24, 2019

On the strength of a decade of successful collaboration, Polytechnique Montréal and Safran, one of the largest aerospace equipment manufacturers, are announcing the creation of two new research partnerships to design a new generation of lighter, more effi ...

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A 100% Québec discovery made at Polytechnique Montréal in partnership with McGill University paves the way for new automated biological-sample analysis systems to accelerate and facilitate disease detection

April 17, 2019

Professor Thomas Gervais of the Department of Engineering Physics at Polytechnique Montréal and his PhD students Pierre-Alexandre Goyette (biomedical engineering) and Étienne Boulais (engineering physics), in partnership with the team led by Professor Dav ...

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Appointments to three FRQ-IVADO research chairs for diversity and equity in data science

April 17, 2019

Today, the Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ) and the Institute for Data Valorization (IVADO) are announcing the appointments of three FRQ–IVADO research chairs in diversity and equity in data science. A total of $1.5 million in funding will support innov ...

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