News : Innovation & Society

Just one year ago, the students of Phelma created the 17th branch of the French nonprofit “Cheer up!”. The organization helps young adults suffering from cancer to make their dreams come true—like one young man who dreamed of taking part in an off-road automobile race. The new branch counts around 40 Phelma student members, and […] >>

The Grenoble branch of the Jeunes Ambassadeurs (Youth Ambassadors) program enjoyed an evening in the spotlight at a gala dinner held on April 9 in St. Etienne. The dinner was attended by some 300 young people, corporate coaches, and program partners. A team of three Grenoble Institute of Technology students brought home first prize for […] >>

A handful of nurses in the Vercors mountains just outside of Grenoble have started testing Avalun’s LabPad® in a two-year pilot program backed by the Rhône-Alpes Regional Board of Health. The program coincides with the commercial launch of the device—a connected, pocket-sized testing lab that can measure blood coagulation from a single drop of blood […] >>

This June the website “38 de Sciences” (a joint endeavor of the French Physics Society and the Fondation Nanosciences) is adding a new careers section with job offers. The goal is to centralize links to available internship, PhD, post-doc, research, and teaching positions on the websites of over 100 organizations (including laboratories, institutes, doctoral schools, […] >>

Sorin Cristoloveanu, a research scientist at IMEP-LAHC, is organizing the sixth annual Nano-KISS* summer school from July 13–15 in Daejon, Korea. The program will host 120 participants and leading speakers from around the world, for a full program of talks on microelectronics, nanoelectronics, and sensors. Cristoloveanu, who spearheaded the Migas summer school, took the helm […] >>