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Adaptability and determination are the recipe for success at the 32nd Canadian Mining Games in hybrid format

March 11, 2022

After a 2021 edition held completely in remote-mode due to the pandemic, the 2022 edition of the Canadian Mining Games was again held online- but with delegations in action on campuses or in hotels in their respective cities. Read on for a look back at th ...

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Team Polytechnique Montréal- Champions of the 2022 Canadian Mining Games!

March 11, 2022

Mining engineering students from Polytechnique finished at the top of the podium during the Canadian Mining Games inter-university competition, held from March 3 to 5, 2022 which took place in hybrid mode. ...

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

March 8, 2022

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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COVID-19: A new detection strategy developed at Polytechnique Montréal

February 9, 2022

A team from Polytechnique Montréal and the CRCHUM has just demonstrated how Raman spectroscopy and simple saliva samples could be used to quickly detect SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19. The breakthrough was published today in an article the Journal ...

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Renewal of Professor Beaudry and Professor Kéna-Cohen Canada Research Chairs

January 12, 2022

Polytechnique Montréal’s Full Professor Catherine Beaudry (Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering), and Associate Professor Stéphane Kéna-Cohen (Department of Engineering Physics) have received support from the Canada Research Chairs Program ...

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Québec Science Discovery of the Year: two Polytechnique Montréal professors among the top10 finalists

January 6, 2022

No less than two Polytechnique Montréal professors have earned a top 10 spot in Québec Science magazine’s prestigious Discovery of the Year competition for 2021. ...

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Professor Carl-Éric Aubin receives appointment to the Order of Canada

December 29, 2021

Polytechnique Montréal is proud to announce that Full Professor Carl-Éric Aubin from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine at the Université de Montréal, researcher at CHU Sai ...

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Strategic research: Professor Lahrichi and Professor Pal principal investigators of two of several IVADO-funded programs

December 17, 2021

Professor Nadia Lahrichi is Principal Investigator of an Institut de valorisation des données - IVADO supported program on human health and secondary use of data. Professor Christopher Pal is Principal Investigator of a program focused on artificial inte ...

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Professor Ke Wu elected member of Germany’s acatech academy

December 16, 2021

Full Professor Ke Wu (Department of Electrical Engineering), has been elected to the Deutsche Akademie der Technikwiessenchaften (acatech), the German Academy of Science and Engineering. ...

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Appointments to the CIRAIG management team

December 13, 2021

The International Reference Centre for the Life Cycle of Products, Processes and Services – CIRAIG announces the appointment of Sara Russo Garrido as Executive Director and François Saunier as Assistant Executive Director. ...

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Cybersecurity: Creation of a Research Chair in Supply Chain Resilience

December 9, 2021

Canada’s Polytechnique Montréal and France’s Institut de Recherche Technologique (IRT) SystemX are launching the CRITiCAL Chair for Cyber-Resilience in Transport Systems Infrastructures and Supply Chains. ...

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Professor Samuel Yniesta wins Earthquake Engineering Research Institute Innovation Prize

December 8, 2021

Assistant Professor Samuel Yniesta, (Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering), has received the Shah Family Innovation Prize from the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI). ...

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Artificial Intelligence: a new Canada-CIFAR Chair in AI for Professor Foutse Khomh

December 7, 2021

Full Professor Foutse Khomh and his team from Polytechnique Montréal's Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering has been awarded a Canada-CIFAR Chair in IA. ...

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Willow Dew, seventh recipient of the Order of the White Rose

December 2, 2021

At a ceremony held with the presence of Danielle McCann, Québec’s Minister of Higher Education, Polytechnique Montréal’s university executive presented the seventh Order of the White Rose Scholarship to Willow Dew, a graduate of the University of Alberta& ...

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Activities commemorating December 6, 1989

November 30, 2021

Thirty-two 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 acti ...

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Adam Schachner, Industrial Engineering Research Master's student wins Mitacs award

November 24, 2021

Adam Schachner received the Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation – Masters, at the eleventh annual ceremony of the national innovation body. ...

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"Sciences & Médias": Web capsules to prepare researchers for interviews with journalists

November 18, 2021

How should you talk to journalists? What mistakes should you avoid, and above all, how can you ensure you're being understood? Viviane Lalande, an adept at making science accessible, offers answers to these and many more queries in a series of capsul ...

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Engineering Physics Professors Ludvik Martinu and Jolanta-Ewa Sapieha win NSERC Synergy Award for Innovation

November 17, 2021

Awarded in the “Two or More Companies” category, Full Professor Martinu and Associate Professor Sapieha received one of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council- NSERC's most prestigious honours, the Synergy Awards for Innovation. ...

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Professor Maksim Skorobogatiy named American Physical Society Fellow

October 27, 2021

Full Professor Maksim Skorobogatiy (Department of Engineering Physics), received the latter distinction in recognition of his outstanding contributions in the field of industrial and applied physics. ...

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Professor Gilles Savard appointed Acting President of Polytechnique Montréal

October 1, 2021

Polytechnique Montréal’s Board of Directors today announced the appointment of Professor Gilles Savard as Acting President for a term beginning October 1, 2021, and ending January 7, 2022. Thereafter, he will become Interim President (as of January 8, 202 ...

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