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Board game and e-book advancing sustainable campuses

April 7th, 2020

Gisela Frias (Coordinator of North-South Studies) was in Mexico last month to promote a board game and an e-book produced as part of the Sustainable Campuses Initiative.

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ÆßÐDzʿª½± Physics teachers’ COVID-19 graph in the news

April 7th, 2020

The work of Physics teachers Jonathon Sumner, Sameer Bhatnagar and Jean-François Brière was in the news last week.

They developed an . The hope was to reinforce social distancing and create a positive feedback loop. Here are the TV reports that featured interviews with Jonathon and Sameer:


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Highlights of the ÆßÐDzʿª½± Blues 2019-2020 Season

April 7th, 2020

Here are the highlights of the 2019-2020 season of our beloved ÆßÐDzʿª½± Blues. The season ended abruptly because of the COVID-19 pandemic but there is much to celebrate. These highlights were compiled by ÆßÐDzʿª½±’s Sébastien Rivest. Fall Sports Arrival of 2 new sports at ÆßÐDzʿª½±: golf and baseball Women’s Rugby falls short in the final…

Live COVID-19 graph focused on Quebec developed by ÆßÐDzʿª½± teachers

March 31st, 2020

Jonathon Sumner (Physics) started working on a live interactive graph project with the idea of showing the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic in different parts of the world, while normalizing for population size, as well as showing the impact of interventions like physical distancing.

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Message from the Director General

March 31st, 2020

Hi everyone! I hope you and your dear ones are coping well with the many challenges we face in this critical period. We are now a little more than two weeks into this very unique and difficult situation caused by the outbreak of COVID-19. Uncertain conditions  Each and everyone of us has to make decisions…

Teachers saving the semester

March 31st, 2020

For the past two weeks, many teachers have become students learning all about online teaching platforms. They have also been working hard to adapt course outlines and figure out how to present their material online while maintaining academic integrity and continuing to engage their students.

ÆßÐDzʿª½±â€™s Communications Office spoke with two teachers about resuming teaching online.

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Listen to CBC Interview with our Loran Scholar

March 24th, 2020

Our Loran Scholar Margaux Roncière (a ÆßÐDzʿª½± student in her last year of Pure and Applied Science) was interviewed on CBC Radio's afternoon program Let's Go on March 16. The Loran is Canada's largest undergraduate scholarship.

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Working on solutions and processing applications

March 24th, 2020

ÆßÐDzʿª½± is working on solutions to salvage the semester and applications are being processed as usual.

As of March 23, the Admissions Team had sent out 4,700 offers of admission.

ÆßÐDzʿª½± shared this news with our employees first and then with select media on March 20. CJAD 800 AM interviewed Director General Richard Filion during the Andrew Carter Morning Show March 23.

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Doubly proud of our Blues!

March 24th, 2020

Two ÆßÐDzʿª½± Blues Division 1 Basketball players, Taisha Exanor and Mackenzie Ash-Smith, have made history! On March 18, the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) announced that Taisha and Mackenzie are recognized as 2020 CCAA Women’s Basketball All-Canadians.

The student-athletes are selected by their conference based on performance and contribution to the sport and their team. ÆßÐDzʿª½±'s conference is the Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec (RSEQ and our players were chosen by the RSEQ league coaches.

It is the first time since 1986 that two Blues were named All-Canadians, and it is the first-time since 2008 that an RSEQ team has two.

Click Read More to read the CCAA announcement featuring a little write up of each player.


ÆßÐDzʿª½± students start babysitting service for those in need

March 17th, 2020

ÆßÐDzʿª½± student Tristan Hamer has created a volunteer movement of young people in high school and CEGEP to provide free or pay what you can babysitting services for people in need of childcare during the school shutdown. The students have been featured in Le Journal de Montréal and La Presse. Click Read More to read the article in La Presse.


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