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).

On Friday, April 5th 2019, students from the Ingénieur Polytechnicien Program went to the finals of the Columbia Venture Competition (CVC) held at Columbia University in New York City.

Capgemini, École Polytechnique and the École Polytechnique Foundation have launched a new Chair dedicated to studying the technological and economic implications of blockchain, with the goal of promoting higher education and research in this emerging field.

Times Higher Education has published a new ranking on universities’ involvement in social corporate responsibility. École Polytechnique is one of nine French institutions to have made it onto the list.