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In barely two weeks, many Polytechnique Montréal 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. ...
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Pierre Lassonde, Polytechnique Montreal's new Chair of the Board of Directors as of March 18, 2020, and university President Philippe Tanguy thanked the Polytechnique community for their patience and dedication during this challenging time. The follo ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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Latest breakthrough by Professor Sylvain Martel’s team at Polytechnique Montréal opens up new horizons for endovascular surgery. ...
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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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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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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, 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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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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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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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 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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