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Gala Méritas honours 52 Polytechnique Montreal staff and faculty members

April 5, 2012

The celebrated Gala Méritas awards evening, which honours Polytechnique Montréal's faculty, was held on Tuesday, April 3. The Association des étudiants de Polytechnique (Polytechnique students association—AEP) and the education committees that organi ...

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Two Polytechnique Montréal students win 2012 NanoQuébec science poster contest

April 3, 2012

Myriam Jean and David Rioux won the contest for the best scientific posters at the 2012 NanoQuébec Conference, held March 20–21. ...

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2010-2011 Best Thesis and Dissertation Awards

April 2, 2012

This year, three awards and three honourable mentions were given for the best graduate student projects: an award and two honourable mentions for doctoral dissertations and two awards and an honourable mention for master's theses. ...

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Swimmer Frédéric Le Blanc named Athlete of the Year at annual Carabins awards gala

March 29, 2012

Swimmer Frédéric Le Blanc, a civil engineering student at Polytechnique Montréal, and soccer player Éva Thouvenot-Hébert (HEC Montréal) were the big winners at the annual Université de Montréal Carabins awards gala, held March 28. ...

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Four Polytechnique Montréal students receive scholarships from the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec Foundation

March 26, 2012

Four Polytechnique Montréal students were honoured during the very first awards ceremony of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec Foundation on March 21. The OIQ and its foundation presented these awards and scholarships in order to encourage the next gener ...

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Avion Cargo team takes FIRST PLACE at 2012 SAE Aero Design West Competition

March 20, 2012

Polytechnique students finish FIRST at the competition held March 16–18 in California. ...

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Student Rouhollah Farahani's work makes the cover of Nanotechnology

March 15, 2012

A new 3D nanocomposite strain sensor based on carbon nanotubes and made at Polytechnique Montréal made headlines in the latest issue of the journal Nanotechnology. ...

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Poly takes second place at the 2012 Canadian Mining Games

March 8, 2012

For the second year running, Polytechnique Montréal students took second place overall at the Canadian Mining Games, whose 22nd annual edition was held February 23–26 at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario. ...

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First edition of the "Build Me an AM Radio" contest held by the Electrical Engineering Department at Polytechnique Montréal

March 4, 2012

On Saturday, February 25, at the invitation of Polytechnique Montréal's Electrical Engineering Department, more than 40 students with science and technology training from colleges and CEGEPs across the province took part in the first edition of the “B ...

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Computer Science Games: Polytechnique takes top spot!

February 29, 2012

The Mayan Cats of the Sun, a Polytechnique team made up of computer engineering and software engineering students, took first place overall at the 10th Computer Science Games, held February 24–26 at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. ...

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Frédéric Le Blanc is named Québec athlete of the week

February 28, 2012

Swimmer Frédéric Le Blanc of the Université de Montréal Carabins, a civil engineering student at Polytechnique Montréal, was named male athlete of the week by the Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ). Frédéric won three medals, including one gold, at ...

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Compute Canada allocates over $500,000 in computing resources to three Polytechnique Montréal researchers

February 28, 2012

On February 27, Compute Canada, the national platform of high-performance computing (HPC), announced the allocation of nearly $80 million in state-of-the-art computing, storage and support resources for a number of leading-edge projects across the country. ...

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Quebec selects the CIRAIG to lead the product carbon footprint pilot project, first step in the government's $24M initiative

February 27, 2012

The Interuniversity Research Centre for the Life Cycle of Products, Processes and Services (CIRAIG) is pleased to announce that the Ministère du Développement économique, de l'Innovation et de l'Exportation (MDEIE) has selected the CIRAIG to imp ...

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Sébastien Loranger receives NSERC André Hamer Postgraduate Prize

February 27, 2012

Canada's top researchers in natural sciences and engineering were honoured today at an awards ceremony hosted by His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada. Sébastien Loranger, a master's student in engineering ...

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Professor Raman Kashyap receives a Killam Fellowship

February 22, 2012

The Canada Council for the Arts has announced nearly a million dollars in grants to seven Canadian research leaders, among them Professor Raman Kashyap of Polytechnique Montréal. ...

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Research teams led by professors Raman Kashyap and Sarah Dorner stand out in the NSERC Strategic Project Grants competition

February 20, 2012

Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for Science and Technology, announced that Strategic Project Grants will be awarded to support 70 research teams in universities in every region of the country. Based on partnerships with industry and government ...

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Nanosurgery and the fight against cancer: major breakthrough at Polytechnique Montréal

February 16, 2012

Researchers at Polytechnique Montréal have succeeded in changing the genetic material of cancer cells using a brand-new transfection method. This major breakthrough in nanosurgery opens the door to new medical applications, among others for the treatment o ...

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TELUS supports Polytechnique Montréal's Magnifiscience initiative for elementary schools in Greater Montréal

February 15, 2012

The Fondation de Polytechnique is thrilled to announce a $20,000 donation from TELUS's Montréal Community Investment Committee to the Chaire Marianne-Mareschal, whose mission is to promote engineering among women. The committee also gave $10,000 to th ...

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Information evening for prospective students sets attendance record!

February 9, 2012

Polytechnique Montréal welcomed 369 visitors — a record — at the 2012 edition of its information evening for prospective students, held February 8. ...

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Technology developed at Polytechnique Montréal being commercialized by Biomomentum

February 8, 2012

In January, biotechnology company Biomomentum Inc. obtained a CE compliance marking from the European Union for the Arthro-BST, a technology developed in the mid-2000s by two doctoral students in biomedical engineering, Martin Garon and Éric Quenneville, ...

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