News : Life @ MINATEC
July 06 2020
FMNT: Catherine Lo Cicero wins CNRS Crystal Medal
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Catherine Lo Cicero, who has been FMNT’s Chief Financial Officer since 2018, will receive one of 23 Crystal Medals to be handed out in 2020 at a ceremony in the fall. The Crystal Medals are awarded to research support staff members whose creativity, technical expertise, and sense of innovation contribute to the excellence of research in […] >>
July 06 2020
Leti Innovation Days 2020: the fall’s top innovation event
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Leti Innovation Days, traditionally held in June in Grenoble, was postponed to October 12 to 16 this year. This year’s event will showcase technologies that connect humans to their physical environment. Attendees will discover the building blocks of the next generations of sensors, haptic interfaces, audio and image/video systems, and, of course, artificial intelligence embedded […] >>
July 06 2020
Master’s in nanotechnology students go deep inside ESRF and ILL online
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The Covid-19 lockdown in France took some of the spice out of the Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma Master’s in Nanotech program this year. Students usually get to do lab classes at ESRF, ILL, and CIME Nanotech. The program heads came up with an ingenious workaround. First, they teamed up with ESRF and ILL to develop […] >>
April 06 2020
Until further notice…
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The global coronavirus pandemic has arrived in France, and in mid-March the nation went on lockdown until further notice, putting much of the activity on the MINATEC campus on standby. For the first time in the CEA Grenoble campus’ history, which dates back to 1957, all non-essential activities have been curtailed. Major laboratories IMEP-LAHC and […] >>
April 06 2020
BHT1 gets new lounge for work and play
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Some 250 people come to work at the BHT1 building (bldg. 52) every day. But the building is sorely lacking meeting rooms and other places staff can gather. To improve quality of life at work and create a friendlier environment, the people at MINATEC Entreprises came up with a plan for an extension. Construction started […] >>