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The Grenoble Institute of Technology Foundation has introduced two new programs for businesses. The first, called MyFondation, supports students involved in international social or sustainable development activities, as well as student artists and elite athletes. The second, Fast Track, lets donors allocate their gifts to short (maximum two-year) research programs with budgets of €500,000 or […] >>

The 2016–2017 academic year was a good one for the Nano@school educational outreach program, which served 610 science-track high-school students—including around 80 from international schools in Turkey, Japan, and Italy—at CIME Nanotech labs. The year was a good one in terms of quality, as well, with updates to two of the six workshops. The microsystems […] >>

The tenth annual Parvis des sciences science fair will be held on October 19–21, 2017 at MINATEC. And, with ample opportunities to look, touch, experiment, and ask questions, there is sure to be something for each of the 3,000 visitors expected this year. Thursday and Friday—for school groups only—are already fully booked. A total of […] >>

This year Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma engineering school and Grenoble-Alpes University (UGA) will once again enter the iGEM synthetic biology competition held by Boston’s MIT. The Grenoble team, which includes four students from Phelma and six from UGA’s School of Pharmacy, will develop a portable, self-contained cholera test kit. A DNA sequence from the […] >>

Imagine an electron as fast as Usain Bolt! Sabrina Fadloun had the jury—and the entire audience—hanging on her every word at the Grenoble-Alpes University finals of the MT 180 (My Thesis in 180 Seconds, inspired by the Three Minute Thesis®) competition held at MINATEC on April 13. Two other PhD candidates from Grenoble Institute of […] >>