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From PyeongChang to Tokyo, from Winter Games to Summer Games, the Olympic journey carries on for high-level athletes and graduates from Université Grenoble Alpes. This summer, 10 champions will take part in the Tokyo Oly...

The mystery of the formation of one of the most peculiar plant forms – the Romanesco cauliflower – has been solved by a team of scientists from the CNRS [1] and Inria, including laboratory researchers from the laboratoir...

Following the evaluation conducted by the international jury on June 8th, the government announced the final confirmation of the Université Grenoble Alpe Initiative of Excellence (Idex) on Wednesday, June 30 at the end o...

The U7+ Alliance today issued a statement asking G7 leaders to take into account the interests of future generations as the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and seeks to mitigate the effects of climate change.

The life of the microscopic algae that inhabit snow at high elevations is still relatively unknown. Researchers from the CNRS, CEA, Météo-France, INRAE and the l’Université Grenoble Alpes have therefore created the ALPAL...

In the top 100 of the Shanghai 2020 global ranking, Université Grenoble Alpes has consolidated its position in the recently published Shanghai 2021 subject ranking. Listed in the top 100 of the world's best universities ...

Hans Rocha IJzerman, a social psychologist at Université Grenoble Alpes within the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Psychology (LIP - UGA/USMB) explores the role of temperature through the long prism of evolution in a boo...

Scientists from CNRS, CEA and Université Grenoble Alpes have confirmed in PLOS Pathogens, in an article to be published on May 20, 2021, that the Covid virus can use immune cells to increase its transmission to other cel...

In an effort to meet the high demand for the Covid-19 vaccination, and in anticipation of fully opening the university, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) and the Grenoble Alpes University Hospital (CHUGA) have come togethe...

From the start of the 2021-2022 academic year, Université Grenoble Alpes and Swansea University (Wales) are joining forces to offer a double degree in specialized professional translation.

The project called STEP, Synchrotron Therapy for EPilepsy, coordinated by Antoine Depaulis, Inserm Research Director at Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience(GIN) and funded by the National Research Agency, was launched on ...

Is there a connection between pollution and the spread of coronavirus within the population? It would seem so. At least, that is what is suggested by a recent study published by Italian researchers in collaboration with ...

Launched in March 2021 after incubation at SATT Linksium, the Lichens start-up uses a process from IMEP-LAHC* to improve telephone network signal reception in buildings, without losing thermal insulation quality.

In mid-March 2021, a new generation of roof tile appeared on the shelves in certain DIY stores: Tuil’Up. Developed by the start-up Celloz with the scientific support of LGP2*, it offers a more environmentally-friendly al...

A graduate of Grenoble INP - Phelma, UGA and a PhD student at 3SR*, Clara Aimar recently won first prize in the “My Thesis in 180 Seconds” competition during the Alps final. Her work focusses on polymer foams for sports ...

The functioning of the enzyme FAP, useful for producing biofuels and for green chemistry, has been decrypted. This result mobilized an international team of scientists, including many French researchers from the CEA, CNR...

In the 2021 edition of the QS World university rankings by subject, which evaluates the international reputation and scientific quality of higher education institutions worldwide, UGA is ranked 99th in Natural Sciences. ...

It is not easy integrating university life in another country: all the administrative work, addressing teachers and staff, understanding classes... To guide you in your student life, the new Mooc2Move helps you learn how...

Huntington’s disease is a hereditary disorder that causes degeneration of the neurons involved in cognitive, motor and psychiatric functions. While existing treatments address the symptoms and relieve certain aspects of ...

OpenYourMine is a Master education project dedicated to mineral resources and sustainable mining activities in Europe. Led by Laurent Truche, professor of GeoResources at Université Grenoble Alpes and member of the Insti...

Having recently joined the Inria centre in Saclay, Mathieu Desbrun, a graduate of Grenoble INP - Ensimag, has been recognised by the Association for Computing Machinery for his contribution to computer science.

How best to evaluate the performance of a group testing strategy for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which involves pooling samples from multiple individuals to conduct a single RT-PCR test on the whole group? To do precisely that...

The Mars 2020 mission, which will search for traces of life on the Red Planet, reached its destination on February 18, 2021 with the landing of the Perseverance rover and the French instrument SuperCam onboard, a veritab...

Twice a year, all staff and students from the seven universities taking part in Unite! meet to discuss and cooperate on the diverse themes and activities of the network. The 3rd meeting, organized by Grenoble INP - UGA, ...

Submitted in May 2020, UGA's renewal application for the Erasmus Charter required all its International and Territorial Development staff, as well as the political team.

On January the 28th, in a video, Yassine Lakhnech, Université Grenoble Alpes president, presents his wishes for the year 2021 and gives the floor to the staff and students who make UGA.

The current health crisis has undoubtedly disrupted students' study and living conditions. Université Grenoble Alpes considers this one of its top priorities, working hard to improve the quality of life of its students, ...

Thanks to artificial intelligence, astrophysicists were able to better understand a lasting secret of the universe: how stars are born.

What is the role of women in rural areas today? How are the stakeholders organized with regard to gender equality? How can women strengthen their power to act and their skills?

As a high-level sports student at Université Grenoble Alpes, Mbagnick Ndiaye won for the 2nd consecutive year the title of African judo champion in the over 100kg category. This new title ensures him a qualification for ...

They are international students at Université Grenoble Alpes, and wish you in their language a very merry Christmas and New Year. Discover them on video!

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 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...

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...