News of 2011
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2011.12.19
Greater Montréal Adds a New Campus Devoted to Public Health within its Health District
The Government of Québec announced its support for the establishment of the Public Health Campus Norman-Béthune who will house the Université de Montréal’s Public Health School, the Québec Public Health Institute and the Montréal Direction of Public Health.
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2011.12.14
New Research Lab at Concordia University Allows to Investigate Solar Energy
The Solar Simulator-Environmental Chamber is an innovative and unique facility that launched at Montréal’s Concordia University part of a $4.6 million overall investment.
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2011.12.13
A team of scientists, led by Guillaume Gervais from McGill’s Physics Department and Mike Lilly from Sandia National Laboratories, has engineered one of the world's smallest electronic circuits.
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2011.12.06
A Strategic Collaboration between Greater Montréal’s and Saxony’s Aerospace Cluster
Aéro Montréal settled their intent on cooperation with ASIS Saxony, the aerospace cluster of Saxony, Germany, during the third edition of the Aerospace Innovation Forum 2011.
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2011.12.05
Polytechnique Montréal: A New Research Chair for the Energy Industry
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and Total have joined forces with Polytechnique to create an industrial research chair that aims to contribute to the development of new processes that are respectful of the environment.
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2011.12.01
Online Gaming: Two New Firms Will Create Over 150 jobs
The firm 7G Entertainment announced the launch of its webhosting and online video-game publishing services in Montréal, where between 150 and 180 jobs will be created over the next two years. The two firms to start up as a result of an $8 million investment from the Fonds de solidarité FTQ are managed by the Montréal native Anthony Brown.
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2011.11.30
Greater Montréal is becoming an Excellence Hub for Airplanes’ Recycling
The Greater Montréal area is currently positioning itself as world renowned excellence hub for the dismantlement and the increment of old aircrafts. Airplanes’ recycling is becoming a more important environmental issue for the aerospace industry.
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2011.11.24
Two research projects will be funded as part of the third competition of the Pfizer-FRQS Innovation Fund. The first initiative, under the leadership of Caroline Gilbert, Ph. D, aims to establish a new therapeutic strategy for HIV and the second one, under the leadership of Dr. Denis Sasseville, develops a molecular test to predict skin cancer outcomes.
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2011.11.23
Two Montréal partners are organizing the first Video World Games
Palais des congrès de Montréal (Convention centre) partners with Just For Laughs to produce the first Montréal Video World Games in 2013, along with a special preview presentation in 2012.
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2011.11.21
Square Enix to Expand Further in Montréal
Leading interactive entertainment company creates 250 new jobs through growth at Eidos Montréal studio and creation of second studio in Québec: Square Enix Montréal.
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