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The street artist Rosie Woods visited the Saint-Martin-d'Hères campus from October 14 to 25, 2020 where she painted three murals entitled "Veils of knowledge" on the DLST building. She explains her approach and her journ...

Launched on the night of September 3 at 1:51 am UT (3:51 am French time) on Arianespace's Vega 16 flight, AMICal SaT, the first nanosatellite of the Grenoble University Space Center (CSUG - UGA/Grenoble INP-UGA), transmi...

The recently launched EU-funded project GAIN4CROPS aims to improve photosynthetic efficiency of the oil crop sunflower using nature-inspired solutions and innovative breeding techniques. The 5-year 8M € project, funded u...

Meet the class of 2020-2021 of the University diploma "Passerelle" Students in Exile (CUEF)

On October 28, 2020, the French President announced the implementation of new measures to deal with the acceleration of the Covid-19 epidemic, and therefore a new lockdown that should last at least until December 1st. Du...

In 2015, the New Horizons space probe discovered spectacular snowcapped mountains on Pluto, which are strikingly similar to mountains on Earth. Such a landscape had never before been observed elsewhere in the Solar Syste...

A new paper in Nature: Human Behaviour says behavioural science needs to undergo rigorous testing before it informs public policy on critical issues such as government responses to Covid-19. If no such testing can be do...

Common assumptions notwithstanding, rare species can play unique and essential ecological roles. After studying two databases that together cover all known terrestrial mammals and birds worldwide, scientists from the CN...

The Eiffel Excellence Scholarship Program was established by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs to enable French higher education institutions to attract top foreign students to enroll in their masters an...

The International Days festival brings together international initiatives for the students and staff of Université Grenoble Alpes, on the Grenoble and Valence campuses.

Over 99% of terrestrial ice is bound up in the ice sheets covering Antarctic and Greenland. Even partial melting of this ice due to climate change will significantly contribute to sea level rise. But how much exactly? Fo...

Researchers from Université Grenoble Alpes (TIMC Laboratory - UGA/CNRS/Grenoble INP) and Paris-Saclay University (Research Lab in Computer Science - CNRS/Inria) have published a study (Factor analysis of ancient populati...

Using the GRAVITY instrument of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), an international team of French, Irish, German and Portuguese astronomers observed for the first time the columns of matter that feed young stars. ...

First regional university (outside of the Paris region), in the top 5 French Universities, Université Grenoble Alpes has placed in the top 100 world universities in the 2020 Shanghai ranking of world universities. Follow...

Latest research published in Nature Communications from the Institut de biologie structurale and the European molecular biology laboratory in Grenoble reveal the molecular mechanisms that support the adaptation of avian ...

Ranked 19 times in the top 100, including 6 times in the top 50 of the 2020 Global Rankings of Academic Subjects of the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) and 1st French university in 7 subjects, Univ...

Several interacting exoplanets have already been spotted by satellites. But a new breakthrough has been achieved with, for the first time, the detection directly from the ground of an extrasolar system of this type. An ...

Named NETRAW (Network for Rural Active Women), the main objective of this European research and training project is to capitalise on practices and provide access to training and support resources for women living in Medi...

An international team led by scientists from the ISTerre laboratory (UGA-CNRS-USMB-IRD-Université Gustave Eiffel) studied the first animal fossil contained in a gem opal from Indonesia. Published in Scientific Reports on...

Committed to a quality process for welcoming international students, Université Grenoble Alpes was awarded the "Bienvenue en France 2 étoiles" label at the end of May 2020, a label issued by Campus France and validated b...

Astronomers acting on a hunch have likely resolved a mystery about young, still-forming stars and regions rich in organic molecules closely surrounding some of these stars. The National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansk...

The Covid-19 crisis has turned many industrial and logistics organizations upside down. The primary focus on profitability has been replaced by the need to ensure the health of workers while maintaining sufficient activi...

At the age of 38, Virgile Chassagnon, professor at Université Grenoble Alpes and founding director of the Institut de recherche pour l’économie politique de l'entreprise (Research institute for the political economy of b...

The Grand Prix Scientifique of the Charles Defforey Foundation, on the theme "Exoplanets", was awarded to Jean-Luc Beuzit [1], Anthony Boccaletti [2], Gael Chauvin [3], Thierry Fusco [4] , Maud Langlois [5] and David Mou...

An international team of astronomers including researchers from the Grenoble Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics (CNRS / UGA), has captured fifteen images of the inner rims of planet-forming disks located hundreds ...

In the April 22, 2020 issue of Nature, researchers at the Spintec Laboratory (CNRS/CEA/Université Grenoble Alpes) and the CNRS/Thales Laboratory recently presented an approach that can detect spin information at low pow...

Observations made with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed for the first time that a star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way moves just as predicted by Einstein’s general theor...

A team of scientists and doctors from Université Grenoble Alpes University Hospital and Université Grenoble Alpes launched a bioclinical research on Covid-19 at the end of March, which was made possible thanks to the sup...

To cope with the pandemic, the Grenoble University Health Center has organized itself urgently in order to be able to continue to provide the best service to its users, students and staff, while opening up to other patie...

Delve into the world of AI and Grenoble's impact on its future, before learning about the prospects of 3D printing, eco-responsable wearable devices and the latest innovations in bio-sourced packaging.

It is common to observe jets of matter being produced and propelled near supermassive black holes. However, this phenomenon has eluded our understanding for decades. New state-of-the-art numerical simulations reveal for ...

Develop and launch a nanosatellite using artificial intelligence algorithms to observe the Earth and meet social challenges such as observation of illegal deforestation, monitoring of CO2 emissions or evaluation of damag...

A team of researchers at the Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience (GIN - Inserm/UGA) has discovered that MAP6 - a neuronal protein that stabilizes microtubules - can localize in the lumen of microtubules. A pioneering disc...

Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis (Bti) is widely used to reduce mosquito nuisance in Europe and other parts of the world. An evaluation of existing peer-reviewed literature shows that the risk of resistance of m...

You are a student or staff at Université Grenoble Alpes? Consult the measures taken by the university to deal with the coronavirus infection situation.

By comparing the spectra measured by the Rosetta probe's VIRTIS instrument with those of artificial comets produced at the Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG-CNRS/UGA), an international consort...

The Arianespace VV16 flight originally scheduled for March 24, 2020, on which the AMICalSat nanosatellite was to be embarked, has been cancelled due to the current health crisis. The Grenoble nanosatellite, designed by s...

The European university alliance explores new avenues for joint actions for mobility, support services and learning. On 12-14 February, some 150 individuals representing faculty, staff, students and top management of sev...

The 2019 Grenoble iGEM team was made up of 13 students from Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP and Sciences Po Grenoble. They headed to Boston at the end of October to participate in the biggest competition in synth...

On Tuesday, 10 December 2019, the European Research Council (ERC) announced the list of people who would receive the 2019 ERC Consolidator Grants. It includes 43 recipients who are living in France, 6 from Grenoble and o...

Researchers at LGP2* recently developed an interactive paper material that reacts to one’s touch or breath and can record and transfer data thanks to an integrated electronic circuit. This innovative paper can even light...

Following Catherine Picart’s award, it is Guillaume Balarac’s turn to be recognized by the Academy of Sciences. The researcher recently received the Espoir Institut Mines Telecom prize from the Academy of Sciences, which...

Surface melting in West Antarctica is triggered by atmospheric rivers that transport heat and moisture from the mid-latitudes and sub-tropics to the polar regions according to a new study from researchers1 from the Unive...

On 1 January 2020, Université Grenoble Alpes is changing: all public higher education on the Grenoble Alpes site is coming together to form a new, single institution under the name of “Université Grenoble Alpes”. This ne...