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Announcing the creation of the International Research Consortium on Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainable Transition

April 27, 2023

Polytechnique Montréal and the International Reference Centre for the Life Cycle of Products, Processes and Services (CIRAIG), along with the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), the Haute École Spéc ...

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Pathways to net-zero carbon: Government of Canada allocates $1 million for two Polytechnique Montréal projects

April 11, 2023

Canada’s Net-Zero Advisory Body (NZAB) has announced that $1.05 million in funding, drawn from the Government of Canada’s Environmental Damages Fund, will go to two Polytechnique research projects that aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Canada. The ...

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Étoiles académiques des Carabins 2023-2024: des honneurs pour 29 étudiantes-athlètes et étudiants-athlètes de Polytechnique Montréal

6 février 2025

Vingt-neuf membres de la communauté étudiante de Polytechnique font partie des 154 étoiles académiques qui ont fait preuve d'excellence scolaire lors de la dernière année universitaire. ...

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Government of Canada announces $2 million in support for acquisition of state-of-the-art materials physics equipment

January 24, 2023

During a visit to Polytechnique Montréal, Rachel Bendayan, Member of Parliament for Outremont and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance, on behalf of the Honourable Pascale St‑Onge, Minister of Sport and Mini ...

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Sophia Roy, eighth recipient of the Order of the White Rose

December 5, 2022

Taking action to fight the environmental crisis: this is what sparked Sophia Roy's interest in engineering. Today the outstanding student was awarded the $30,000 Order of the White Rose Scholarship. The presentation ceremony, which was attended by Pa ...

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Activities commemorating December 6, 1989

November 28, 2022

Thirty-three 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 ac ...

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Edouard Clément appointed executive director of the Energy Modelling Hub at Polytechnique Montréal

November 9, 2022

Edouard Clément, who graduated from Polytechnique Montréal in mechanical engineering, will lead a new Canada-wide organization to support the development, maintenance and dissemination of models to provide evidence-based advice for the decarbonization of ...

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A Canadian first: Polytechnique Montréal displays the carbon footprint of its cafeteria meals

November 2, 2022

Polytechnique Montréal, always at the leading edge of future-oriented solutions, is innovating by quantifying the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by its cafeteria meals. Only a handful of institutions worldwide—restaurants and others—have experim ...

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Professor Pooneh Maghoul recognized by the Canadian Geotechnical Society

October 18, 2022

Pooneh Maghoul, Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering, has been selected to be a Colloquium speaker at the Canadian Geotechnical Society's Annual Conference in 2023. This honour has been awarded to emerging ...

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Professor Robert Chapuis Awarded the 2022 RF Legget Medal from the Canadian Geotechnical Society

October 17, 2022

Robert Chapuis, who is a full professor in the Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, was recently presented a prestigious award at the 75th Canadian Geotechnical Conference in Calgary. ...

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Polytechnique Montréal partners with Ericsson Canada and Montréal-based universities to improve 5G sustainability using AI

October 14, 2022

Professors Jean-François Frigon and François Leduc-Primeau of the Department of Electrical Engineering are taking part in a research project jointly conducted by Polytechnique Montréal, École de technologie supérieure, Concordia University, Environment an ...

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An international multidisciplinary consortium led by Polytechnique Montréal Professor Denis Seletskiy receives more than $1.91 million in support from NSERC for its quantum sensing project

October 5, 2022

MIRAQLS, a multinational consortium set up to develop quantum sensing research in the mid-infrared field, is receiving more than $1.91 million in funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) as part of a joint Canad ...

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Cybersécurité: l’IMC2 accueille une quatrième université dans ses rangs

29 janvier 2025

L’Institut multidisciplinaire en cybersécurité et cyberrésilience (IMC 2) grandit en ajoutant pour la première fois une université extérieure à Campus Montréal. Les expertes et experts en cybersécurité de l’Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) se joign ...

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Professor Mohamad Sawan elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

September 29, 2022

Dr. Mohamad Sawan, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering, has been elected to the Applied Sciences and Engineering Division of the Royal Society of Canada’s Academy of Science. ...

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Research projects of seven Polytechnique Montréal faculty members backed by the CFI and the Québec government

September 23, 2022

Professors Soumaya Cherkaoui, Gunes Karabulut Kurt, Najib Bouaanani, Marc Lavertu, Étienne Martin, Yabo Octave Niamié and Lucien Weiss have received contributions from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund and the Governm ...

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NASA Haughton-Mars Project: for the first time, a Polytechnique student joins the mission

August 31, 2022

Gabriel Dubé, a bachelor’s student in aerospace engineering, flew to Devon Island, Nunavut, on August 3 for a three-week mission as part of the Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) to conduct future exploration experiments on the Moon and Mars. He is the first Pol ...

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Portiloop: a potential brain-wave trainer to boost memory

August 25, 2022

It’s a device that could one day improve our concentration, or even slow cognitive decline. In an article published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE, a team from Polytechnique Montréal has just unveiled Portiloop, a tool that scans brain waves for speci ...

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Rover: PolyOrbite stands out at the Canadian International Rover Challenge for the second year in a row

August 23, 2022

Polytechnique Montréal’s technical society participated in the Canadian International Rover Challenge (CIRC), the skills competition for rovers, in Drumheller, Alberta, from August 12 to 15, 2022. In their second year participating, Polytechnique students ...

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PolySTAR technical society takes third place at the North American RoboMaster competition

August 18, 2022

PolySTAR members took part in the annual RoboMaster student robotics competition in the 3v3 category. While this was the second time the technical society participated in this competition, it was the first year that Polytechnique students had a full fleet ...

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Spaceport America Cup 2022: Oronos-developed hybrid rocket reaches new heights!

July 20, 2022

With its Atlas MK II rocket, Polytechnique's technical society has won first place at the Spaceport America Cup 2022- the world's largest rocket competition. Held from June 21 to 25 in the New Mexico desert (U.S.), the Polytechnique team earned ...

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