The CNRS Gold Medal, one of the most prestigious French scientific distinctions, has been awarded to the Sandra Lavorel, ecologist at the Laboratoire d'écologie alpine (LECA - CNRS/UGA/USMB). A specialist in the function...

Wroclaw Tech (Poland) will be hosting the upcoming edition of the VIII Unite! Dialogue, titled "Unite! Ecosystems," scheduled to take place from the 19th to the 21st of September 2023.

An international research team explains the microscopic origin of the Hall effect: the study, published in Science, is coordinated by the University of Florence in collaboration with LENS, CNR and the Université de Genèv...

Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) has maintained its position in the top 150 of the Shanghai 2023 ranking of the world's best universities, published on August 15. On a national level, UGA also maintained its position as 5...

Scientists from the Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement of Grenoble (IGE / CNRS - INRAE - IRD - UGA - Grenoble INP-UGA), the Centre d’Etudes de la Neige (CEN / CNRM / Météo-France - CNRS) and the Groupe de Météor...

The online administrative registration process for candidates admitted to Université Grenoble Alpes is now open. Several thousand high school graduates are expected to enroll in bachelor's degrees, undergraduate programs...

The Unite! Student Festival Lisbon 2023 took place at the University of Lisbon, between the 29th of June and the 1st of July 2023, in a relevant event for the entire student community of the nine Unite! partner universit...

The eighth French university in the 2024 QS World University Rankings, Université Grenoble Alpes is now ranked 294th among the world's top universities, up 23 places. This rise is in line with the good results obtained i...

Université Grenoble Alpes has honored ten PhDs graduating in 2022 whose thesis work was judged to be of exceptional quality. Eight academic thesis prizes, including one interdisciplinary prize, and two innovation thesis ...

The Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) - European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) first joint symposium was held on Monday 22nd May, 2023, at Maison MINATEC. In spite of the numerous and fruitful collaborations that h...

Neuroscientists and neurosurgeons from EPFL/CHUV/UNIL and CEA/FDD Clinatec/CHUGA/UGA report in the journal Nature that they have re-established the communication between the brain and spinal cord with a wireless digital ...

Despite obstacles posed by unexpected high water content in the snow layers and extreme weather conditions, an international team of scientists was able to drill three deep ice cores on Holtedahlfonna, one of the largest...

Experts from Swansea University, the Department of Molecular Chemistry (DCM - CNRS/UGA) and the Laboratory for the Chemistry and Biology of Metals (LCBM - CEA/CNRS/UGA) have joined forces to develop a practical way to pr...

The Ice Memory Foundation launches its 8th ice-coring operation in the Svalbard Archipelago - Norway. An international team of scientists has reached the Holtedahlfonna icefield on 1st April 2023, setting up camp at an ...

Selected by NASA as a Physicist for a manned flight aboard the Columbia shuttle in June 1996, Jean-Jacques Favier, a former student engineer and PhD student from Grenoble, passed away on 19 March. His exemplary scientifi...

In the 2023 edition of the QS World University rankings by subject, which evaluates the international reputation and scientific quality of higher education and research institutions around the world, UGA has improved or ...

A pioneer and explorer, this eminent glaciologist from Grenoble, founder of the Grenoble Laboratory of Glaciology and Environmental Geophysics (now the Institute of Geosciences and the Environment) was the first to demon...

At 30th place in the INPI 2022 ranking, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) maintains its rank among the French institutions that invest the most in innovation, with the entry this year of its academic division Grenoble INP-...

Selenium is a micronutrient that plays an essential role in human health but is toxic at high levels. However, new biomedical research has shown selenium actually has anti-cancer properties when used at high doses. To ov...

CNRS research director at the TIMC laboratory (CNRS/UGA/Vet Agro Sup/Grenoble INP - UGA) Jocelyne Troccaz has been elected to the prestigious Académie des sciences (Academy of sciences). This distinction crowns an except...

The 20th edition of the European School of Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies ESONN'2023 will be held from August 27 to September 9, 2023 in Grenoble.

To start off with the new phase of the Erasmus+ project, the alliance will hold the 7th Unite! Dialogue hosted by Grenoble INP - UGA graduate school of engineering and management, from February 28 to March 2, 2023.

Using a Histone 3 mutant in the Arabidopsis model plant, researchers from France (LPCV - CEA/CNRS/INRAE/UGA and IBMP - CNRS Strasbourg) and Israel (University of Jerusalem) have studied the true role of the Lysine 27 res...

On 9 and 10 February, 2023, UGA will have the honor of hosting the 4th meeting of the European network of universities of science and technology CESAER.

What mechanisms are behind the formation of flowers? To answer this question, a 25-year-old enigma has just been solved by the team of François Parcy, CNRS researcher at the Laboratoire physiologie cellulaire et végétale...

From 12 to 22 January 2023 in Lake Placid in the United States, 11 high-level athletes from Université Grenoble Alpes represented France at the World University Winter Games. On the slopes of the largest multi-sport comp...

The application process for Master 1 programs is changing! The e-candidate platforms specific to each university will disappear in favor of a new single application platform. As of 1 February, 2023, the monmaster.gouv.fr...

Stereo, the collaboration between the CEA, CNRS, the Université Grenoble-Alpes (UGA), the Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB), the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), and the Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK), has foun...

A new chapter in evolutionary history starts with the recent discovery of two-million-year-old DNA: Microscopic fragments of environmental DNA have been discovered in sediments from northern Greenland. Using state-of-the...

Less CO2. More ideas, more progress. Best wishes for 2023 from Université Grenoble Alpes.

As part of the 2021-2027 CPER*, Grenoble INP - UGA is leading a project to acquire some exceptional equipment: a tomographic atom probe. This recent model will be the first new-generation instrument in France and the sec...

Tim Ingold, Fiona Macintosh, Lisa Moore, Éva Tardos and Roberto Zanino, were officially awarded the title and insignia of Doctor Honoris Causa by the UGA. Five eminent international figures were thus distinguished for th...

On 2 December from 2 pm to 5 pm, Tim Ingold, Fiona Macintosh, Lisa Moore, Éva Tardos and Roberto Zanino will officially receive the title and insignia of Doctor Honoris Causa from Université Grenoble Alpes. Social anthro...

On Wednesday, 23 November, 2022, the Laboratory of Electrochemistry and Physical Chemistry of Materials and Interfaces (LEPMI*) and the company Blue Solutions inaugurated a new joint laboratory, Li² (Lab Lithium & Interf...

An information and discussion event on doctoral studies for all students and student engineers with a bachelor's degree or higher, in all disciplines. Accessible worldwide: 100% online, in French and English. The best wa...

The Graduate School@UGA finances incoming scholarships for foreign students studying at Université Grenoble Alpes in one of its 15 thematic programs. The scholarship is granted for M1 and M2 (no scholarship possible if t...

Imagine a university where you have access to the training programs of Europe’s nine leading science universities, where student and staff mobility between these campuses is simplified through pooled services, and where ...

The Université Grenoble Alpes’ 2023 IRGA call for projects aims to encourage the development of research and innovation projects initiated at UGA laboratories in order to support the site’s scientists with their research...

Ice flowing from the interior to the lower elevated edges of Greenland exerts a key control on how much the Ice-Sheet will lose mass as temperatures rise. The faster the ice flows, the faster it reaches the edges where i...

Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) has maintained its position in the top 150 of the Shanghai 2022 ranking of the world's best universities, published on 15 August. At the national level, UGA has also maintained its positio...

Université Grenoble Alpes ranked in the top 150 in the Shanghai 2021 global ranking, and has strengthened its position in the Shanghai 2022 thematic ranking, published on 19 July. It is now in the top 100 of the world's ...

CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes and the University of Tsukuba in Japan officially signed in Grenoble on 24 June 2022 the creation of the J-FAST (Japanese - French lAboratory for Semiconductor Physics and Technology) inte...

In an article published today in the international scientific journal Plos One, scientists from Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Inserm, Université de Bourgogne and Université Catholique de ...

43 representatives from universities in Japan, Brazil, the United States, Germany, France and Kazakhstan will be in Grenoble to attend the annual meeting of the CiC network. This is an opportunity for Université Grenoble...

On June 23 and 24, Université Grenoble Alpes will host the members of the international alliance "Campus in Campus (CiC)" of which it has also been a member since 2017. This network is led by the University of Tsukuba in...

Several promising research topics for the strategic partnership between UGA and McMaster University will be discussed during this workshop: materials science, mathematics, chemistry, environmental studies, neurosciences,...

Université Grenoble Alpes and its academic institutions Grenoble INP - UGA, Sciences Po - UGA, ENSAG - UGA, were awarded the European label "HR Excellence in Research" in April 2021. Within this framework, the institutio...

This summer, in the grandiose setting of the Meije glaciers, discover the 2,000 species of flowers native to the Alps and to mountains the world over at the Jardin du Lautaret. You can also experience the height of the m...

Les Houches School of Physics celebrated its 70th anniversary on May 23rd and 24th. This internationally renowned institution, founded by the French physicist Cécile DeWitt-Morette, has existed since the summer of 1951. ...

A space dedicated to student services will open its doors in the heart of the Saint-Martin-d'Hères campus at the beginning of the 2023 academic year. Located in the completely renovated Ampère Hall D, it will house a lar...

Using a material originally designed for power applications to conduct neural stimulation - this is the challenge of a project supported by the ANR (French National Research Agency) which brings together several laborato...

The University Center for French Studies (CUEF) of Université Grenoble Alpes offers a French language course dedicated to students in exile: the DU Pass. Since its creation six years ago, more than a hundred people who w...

Julien Chauchat, lecturer at Grenoble INP – Ense3, UGA and researcher at LEGI*, is the holder of the new chair for industrial excellence from Fondation Grenoble INP and Artelia.

Atmospheric rivers landfalls shown to induce extreme conditions that destabilize Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves according to a new study from researchers1 from the Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Sorbonne Université an...

In the 2022 edition of the QS World university rankings by subject, UGA is ranked in the top 50 for three disciplines in the major field of Natural Sciences, where it is placed 71st in the world.In these rankings, whic...

Under the latest calls for project proposals from the Investments for the Future Programme, a budget of €12 million has been allocated to the French robotics community for the purchase of targeted equipment. Led by Nicol...

The French government has just allocated €1.9 billion to develop the country’s hydrogen sector, and LEPMI*, France’s leading electrochemistry lab, is contributing to several target projects.

A new piece of equipment, the only of its kind in France, has just joined the GINOVA technological platform at the S.mart Grenoble Alps hub: a five-axis machining centre combining machining and manufacturing of metal add...

Scientists have precisely dated the Hiawatha impact crater, the first known impact crater buried under the Greenland Ice Sheet to 58 million years old – just a few million years younger than the impact that killed off th...

Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) stands together with France Universités and other French and European universities to affirm its support for the academic, scientific and student communities and for the Ukrainian people a...

The adventure continues in Beijing for the Université Grenoble Alpes Olympic delegation. From 4 to 13 March 2022, five UGA students and young graduates will participate in the 13th edition of the Paralympic Winter Games.

Fondation Grenoble INP launches Deep Red, a new Chair for industrial excellence, in partnership with LYNRED, a French specialist and global leader in infrared sensors. Jocelyn Chanussot, researcher at GIPSA-lab* and prof...

Throughout the year, the European university Unite! offers short programs accessible to all its students in every partner university. It gives them the opportunity to discover new learning methods on different subjects, ...

With a new Erasmus+ call, the integration of two new partners and an already full agenda, the year 2022 promises to be busy for the European university Unite!

What is the place of women in rural areas today? How are the actors organized with regard to gender equality? How can women strengthen their power to act and their skills ? The 2nd session of the MOOC "Women and rural te...

Many mountain populations—in the Andes or Himalayas, for example—rely on glaciers for their water. Yet changes in glacial water reserves, like predictions of sea level rise, greatly depend on glacier volume and thickness...

Scientists at UNIGE and Université Grenoble Alpes have shown that women from under-privileged cultural backgrounds are less likely to take physical exercise in adulthood, with a potential impact on their long-term health...

An international team has studied lake sediments and reconstructed flood records during the cold and warm periods of the Industrial Era, the last millennium and the Holocene. The results of this paleohydrological study, ...

The joint laboratory between Altair Engineering and G2Elab was created in 2017 and is working on developing the Flux software suite. It has been used in industry to simulate electromagnetic fields and help design all kin...

As part of the colloquium on 13 January on the 50th anniversary of the CPU (now France Universités) and for the inaugural session of the European Student Assembly, Constance Chevallier-Govers, professor-researcher and he...

After the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2021, the adventure continues in 2022 for the students and graduates of high-level sports at Université Grenoble Alpes. This winter, 33 of these champions will be on the slopes of th...

Scientists from the French Alternative Energies & Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) have combined forces with the European Sync...

A new industrial excellence chair has been signed in the framework of the Grenoble INP Foundation. Dedicated to cellulose, the chair is held by Julien Bras, teacher at Grenoble INP – Pagora, UGA, and researcher at LGP2*.

The successful liftoff took place on 13 January, 2022. ThingSat is Université Grenoble Alpes Space Center's second nano-satellite project to be put into orbit (UGA/Grenoble INP - UGA). Its objective? To link "connected" ...

First review after the signature in April 2021 of the memorandum of understanding between the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the Institute for the Advancement of Biosciences (IAB, Inserm / CNRS / Univer...

Best wishes for 2022 from Université Grenoble Alpes.

Unite! is pleased to welcome two new excellent partners to the alliance. They are Graz University of Technology (Austria) and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Poland). Both partners share Unite!'s dynamic sp...

An offshoot of GIPSA-lab*, ASTRIIS has created a tool for automatic, continuous monitoring of gears and other rotating machinery. Testing of an initial prototype on a wind turbine has met with success.

Three students from Grenoble INP – Ense3, UGA, have launched a project to help decontaminate Nepal’s highest mountaintops. They have developed a unique solution for handling plastic waste and set off to test it in the fi...

Students interested to create their start-up can register, from the 18th October to the European competition organised by InnoEnergy to benefit from the Student Start-up Incubation services of EIT InnoEnergy, participate...

Gerhard Krinner is an expert in polar climate modelling and head of CNRS research at the Institute of Environmental Geosciences (IGE - CNRS / IRD / UGA – Grenoble INP-UGA) as part of the Climate-Cryosphere-Hydrosphere te...

How can we best organise on-site workplace and school attendance periods and remote work to slow the circulation of Sars-CoV-2? Is it better to separate classes? Bring your whole team in at the same time? Set this up on ...

Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) is in the top 150 of the 2021 Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities, which assesses the commitment of international higher education institutions to their research activities. In...

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...

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, CN...

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 don...

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 CNR...

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 i...

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 powe...

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 members of the Board of CESAER, the European network of universities of science and technology, were elected to serve from 2023 to 2025 during the last general assembly hosted by the Technische Universität Dresden.