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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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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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