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COVID-19: Polytechnique community members support the SantéLibre initiative

April 9, 2020

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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COVID-19: TransMedTech Institute is on track to enabling the reuse of N95 masks

April 8, 2020

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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COVID-19: Polytechnique Montréal answers the Québec government’s call to provide the health network with personal protective equipment

April 7, 2020

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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COVID-19: A Polytechnique course maintained… by an Australian virtual microscope

April 2, 2020

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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COVID-19: the Polytechnique Montréal community is involved in more than 10 projects

March 31, 2020

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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Pierre Lassonde named Chair of Polytechnique Montréal’s Board of Directors

March 18, 2020

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’s Sixth edition of the Order of the White Rose

March 8, 2020

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 by engineering physics researchers ranked among the most important discoveries of the year by "Optics and Photonics News"

December 13, 2019

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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Édith Ducharme, fifth recipient of the Order of the White Rose

December 5, 2019

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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Successful Instrument Guidance Through Deep and Convoluted Blood Vessel Networks

December 3, 2019

Latest breakthrough by Professor Sylvain Martel’s team at Polytechnique Montréal opens up new horizons for endovascular surgery. ...

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