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  MINATEC celebrates science The 2015 MINATEC “Parvis des Sciences” Science Fair and fifth annual EXPERIMENTA Art, Science, and Technology Fair will be held on the MINATEC campus from October 8–10, with plenty of science-related activities for everyone, from hardcore science enthusiasts to the general public. MINATEC held its first “Parvis des Sciences” in 2007, […] >>

For the third straight year, from July 1–3, about 20 people from CEA Tech (Leti, List, and Liten) will participate in an off-site seminar to prepare for the French-state-sanctioned research directorship accreditation (habilitation à diriger des recherches). For applicants, this trip to Lans-en-Vercors represents a break from their everyday routine and an opportunity to make […] >>

The MINATEC campus got a new Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) earlier this year. The FEI Tecnai Osiris microscope, offering resolution close to the angstrom, was acquired by Serma Technologies, a services company that has called the BHT home for the past several years. The equipment rounds out Serma Technologies’ own capabilities, of course. But the […] >>

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, […] >>

The fifth annual GIANT International Internship Program (GIIP), which kicked off at the end of May and will continue for 10 weeks, saw record enrollment. GIANT laboratories are hosting 27 international interns, from undergrad through to post-doc, almost all from the United States. In contrast, in 2011, GIIP’s first year, there were only seven interns. […] >>