Montréal – Polytechnique Montréal invites the media to attend the fifth annual awarding of the Order of the White Rose bursary, a $30,000 award that honours a female engineering student pursuing graduate (Master’s or Doctoral) studies in engineering at the university of her choice, anywhere in the world. Thursday December 5, at 11 am in the Galerie Rolland, on the 6th floor of Polytechnique Montréal’s Main Building, media and Polytechnique community members are invited to attend the award ceremony. Three previous Order of the White Rose recipient will also be in attendance. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the anti-women attack of December 6, 1989.

The Order of the White Rose was established in 2014 by Polytechnique in homage to those 14 murdered women, those who were injured, their families, and the professors and staff that witnessed this traumatic event.

The winner of the 2019 Order of the White Rose was unanimously selected by a prestigious jury comprising deans and chancellors of prominent Canadian universities, and which is presided over by Michèle Thibodeau-DeGuire, Polytechnique Montréal’s President of the Board of Directors, and the institution’s first-ever female civil engineering graduate. The selection of a winner was made after close examination of all submitted candidacies, and careful deliberation.

Present to award the bursary will be Polytechnique Montréal’s President, Philippe A. Tanguy, as well as the Order of the White Rose’s godmothers, namely Michèle Thibodeau-DeGuire and Nathalie Provost, Polytechnique graduate who was injured during the 1989 attack.

REMINDER

WHAT:
Fifth annual awards ceremony for the Order of the White Rose

WHO:
Philippe A. Tanguy, Polytechnique Montréal President
Michèle Thibodeau-DeGuire, Polytechnique Montréal Board of Directors President
Nathalie Provost, Order of the White Rose godmother

WHEN:
Thursday December 5, at 11:00 am

WHERE:
Polytechnique Montréal
2500, chemin de Polytechnique
Galerie Rolland, 6th Floor, Polytechnique Main Building
Université de Montréal Campus
Métro Université-de-Montréal
Media parking available in front of the Main Building entrance

Indoor parking available at the Lassonde Pavillion
Map: polymtl.ca/renseignements-generaux/en/contact-information-access-maps/campus-map

The ceremony will be broadcast live on Polytechnique’s Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/polymtl

INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITIES - December 5

• Fifth winner of the Order of the White Rose (French and English)
• Nathalie Provost - Polytechnique graduate who was wounded December 6, 1989, and who is an Order of the White Rose godmother
• Michèle Thibodeau-DeGuire, Polytechnique Montréal Board of Directors President; President of the Order of the White Rose jury
• Philippe A. Tanguy - Polytechnique Montréal President
• Viviane Aubin, Ella Thomson, and Liane Bernstein – previous Order of the White Rose recipients

Order of the White Rose website: polymtl.ca/ordreroseblanche/en
December 6 Website: polymtl.ca/december6