On June 7, 2019, during the international symposium on sustainable development hosted by l'X, Jean Tirole, Anna Creti, Jean-Marc Jancovici and Benoît Leguet will discuss the effect of climate change on our economic system and its transition.

Institut Polytechnique de Paris, encompassing École Polytechnique, ENSTA Paris, ENSAE Paris, Télécom Paris and Télécom SudParis has now been officially established by government decree. Its aim is to become a world-class science and technology institute.

On June 7, 2019, during the international symposium on sustainable development hosted by l'X, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Michal Kurtyka and Scott Barret will cross their viewpoints on global warming and its impacts.

Late April, Éric Labaye visited different partners in California to discuss existing and future collaborations.

Stefanie Stantcheva, an alum of École Polytechnique and professor at Harvard University, received the Best Young Economist of France Award for the year 2019, presented by Le Monde and Le Cercle des économistes. The prize was given in recognition of her outstanding research into the effects of tax reforms.

On Friday, April 26, the team from École Polytechnique won first prize at the International Physicists’ Tournament.

Michel Koenig, a CNRS researcher at the École Polytechnique Intense Lasers Laboratory (LULI), was recently awarded a prize for the quality of his research conducted jointly with researchers from Osaka University and National Central University, Taiwan.

Researchers at École Polytechnique's Organic Synthesis Laboratory have synthesized a natural molecule known as radulanin A, from a species of moss. The molecule’s herbicidal properties are similar to those found in the controversial product, glyphosate.

Alumni and current students of École Polytechnique from Vietnam and its diaspora attended the first Vietnam Global Leaders Forum (VGLF 2019).