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Three Polytechnique professors awarded Canada Research Chairs, in addition to federal and provincial government funding

December 16, 2020

Professors Myriam Brochu, Dominique Claveau-Mallet, and Clara Santato are leading innovative research work with support from the Canada Research Chairs Program, the John R. Evans Leaders Fund (via the Canada Foundation for Innovation- CFI), and the Govern ...

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Brielle Chanae Thorsen, sixth recipient of the Order of the White Rose

December 2, 2020

With immense pride, Polytechnique Montréal’s administration today awarded the sixth annual Order of the White Rose scholarship to Brielle Chanae Thorsen, a graduate of Queen’s University’s (Kingston, Ontario) Bachelor’s of Mechanical Engineering and Appli ...

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Energy efficiency: a Québec-wide quest begins to link heat emitters with heat seekers

December 2, 2020

Professor Michaël Kummert (Polytechnique Montréal, Department of Mechanical Engineering), will soon start a special kind of prospecting in Québec, in partnership with a team lead by Université de Montréal’s Professor Franck Scherrer (Faculté de l’aménagem ...

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Activities commemorating December 6, 1989

November 30, 2020

Thirty-one 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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Landing in Switzerland – before even the Moon or Mars!

November 30, 2020

If all goes as planned, Professor Giovanni Beltrame’s team (Department of Computer and Software Engineering) will travel to Lucerne, Switzerland in July 2021- accompanied by his three robot rovers and a robot dog. The group’s mission? Map terrain totally ...

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Invisible organic light-emitting diodes reach new world record

November 24, 2020

You can’t see it with the naked eye, but a new fluorescent organic light-emitting diode (OLED) could shed light on the development of innovative applications in devices such as smartphone and television displays using near-infrared light. Created through ...

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Geothermal energy: newly-launched project will bring enviro-energy production to Québec schools faster

November 18, 2020

Polytechnique Montréal, Hydro-Québec, the Centre de services scolaire de Montréal, the Centre de services scolaire de la Seigneurie-des-Mille-Îles, the Centre de services scolaire des Samares, Natural Resources Canada’s CanmetENERGY Research Centre, the U ...

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Detecting the SARS-CoV-2 virus in saliva: A clinical study starts

November 11, 2020

A multidisciplinary team and their project, led by Polytechnique Montréal’s Professor Frédéric Leblond and the CHUM’s Dr. Dominique Trudel is moving into Phase II - developing a diagnostic tool using saliva samples to detect COVID-19 carriers. Over the ne ...

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COVID-19: Research project headed by Professor Frédéric Leblond funded by the CFI and the Government of Québec

November 6, 2020

Professor Frédéric Leblond has received funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Government of Québec for a research project to create a biofluid characterization platform using Raman spectroscopy. The purpose? To develop a saliva test to ...

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Printing plastic webs to protect the cellphone screens of the future

November 3, 2020

Follow the unbreakable bouncing phone! A Polytechnique Montréal team recently demonstrated that a fabric designed using additive manufacturing absorbs up to 96% of impact energy – all without breaking. Cell Reports Physical Science journal recently publis ...

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Polytechnique Montréal Professor Bruno Blais named to the New Digital Research Infrastructure Organization- NDRIO Researcher Council

October 2, 2020

Assistant Professor Bruno Blais (Department of Chemical Engineering) will contribute to the assessment of researchers’ needs within the NDRIO organization, which coordinates and funds strategic Canadian activities related to top-tier digital calculations ...

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Plastic recycling goes electric: new technology gets a boost

September 23, 2020

Instead of relying on fossil fuels, chemical processing plants may soon be able to use electrically-generated heat units. Leading the charge is Pyrowave, a company established in 2014 by two Polytechnique Montréal graduates, who today announced a research ...

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Polytechnique Montréal’s Professor Foutse Khomh wins research excellence award

September 23, 2020

Full professor Foutse Khomh (Department of Computer and Software Engineering), has earned an award from CS-Can | Info-Can, an organization dedicated to excellence in information technology and computer science research, innovation, and teaching in Canada. ...

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PEQ: Polytechnique demands more transparency from the Québec government

September 17, 2020

The Government of Québec must demonstrate transparency and reconsider its position in regards to the Québec Experience Program (FR: Programme de l’expérience québécoise- PEQ), and needs to enhance the program and respect the commitment it’s made to intern ...

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Parity Certification: Polytechnique earns silver

September 11, 2020

Recognize, support, and develop talented women: an ambition that Polytechnique Montréal- with one of the largest engineering student bodies in the country- has embodied for some time now. For Polytechnique’s personnel, the commitment to gender parity rece ...

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Sustainable development in the mining sector: the Government of Québec helps fund six projects headed by Polytechnique professors

September 4, 2020

Five professors have earned funding totalling $2.2 million for their research projects – three of which will be undertaken as part of the RIME UQAT-Polytechnique program. ...

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Professor Gabriel Fabien-Ouellet: "seismic" new project supported by the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Government of Québec

September 2, 2020

Due to his innovative ground-movement monitoring research project, Professor Fabien-Ouellet recently earned research funds from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s John-R.-Evans Leaders Fund, as well as from the Government of Québec. ...

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More accurate prostate cancer diagnoses with Raman spectroscopy

August 18, 2020

Diagnosing the different subtypes and grades of prostate cancer could become more accurate with the use of Raman microspectroscopy, an approach developed by a team from Polytechnique Montréal and the Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l’Universi ...

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Examining aerosol movement in order to better protect health care personnel

August 5, 2020

Over the past few weeks, Québec’s dentists, ophtalmologists, and oto-rhino-laryngologists have reopened their clinic doors. Yet how much risk are they subject to, given the realities of COVID-19? A Polytechnique professor is delving into the question and ...

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Easing of PEQ guidelines: Polytechnique remains concerned

July 15, 2020

Nadine Girault, Québec’s Minister of Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration, announced last Thursday that certain adjustments would be part of Programme de l’expérience québécoise (PEQ) reformulation efforts. While some universities’ requests ...

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