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December 03 2012
Grenoble Institute of Technology brochures get a makeover
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Grenoble Institute of Technology’s six engineering schools have recently issued revamped brochures with completely new content and a fresh new design. Phelma’s new brochure highlights the people that make the school great through a dozen testimonials from students, alumni, and research faculty. It also contains QR codes that point to specific sections of the school’s […] >>
December 03 2012
2012 Science Fair and Expérimenta pack a full house
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This year’s Expérimenta arts, science, and design fair helped bring nearly 2,000 people to the simultaneously-held Science Fair at MINATEC on October 12−13, 2012. On the first day of the event, devoted to school groups, the organizers had to turn down 700 students and 80 teachers because there just simply was not enough room. The […] >>
December 03 2012
2013 Midi MINATEC brown bag lunch series program now available
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After a year of highly popular Midi MINATEC brown bag lunches in 2012, the organizers decided to take it up a notch in 2013 with no less than 37 lunches already planned. Corinne Berat, a researcher at the French Subatomic Physics and Cosmology Laboratory (LPSC) will kick off the year with a talk titled “Cosmic […] >>
December 03 2012
MINATEC TV keeps on growing
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Two new videos have just been posted on the MINATEC TV website (www.minatec.tv): “The Titan Ultimate™ Electron Microscope” and “Wafer Bonding.” The former discusses the nanotechnology characterization platform’s new instrument, while the latter shows how the performance of electronic components can be enhanced by bonding silicon wafers. These two videos complete the first season of […] >>
December 03 2012
Nanosafety building slated to open in H1 2013
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Construction work is on track for the new nanosafety building on the CEA campus in Grenoble. The 6,000 m2, low-energy-consumption-certified building is scheduled to open in the first half of 2013. Some 150 nano-experts will work in the new building, including Liten researchers, trainers from the French National Institute of Nuclear Science (INSTN), medical testing […] >>