Université Grenoble-Alpes facts for kids

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The Université Grenoble-Alpes (UGA) is a public university in Grenoble, France. The university has six research departments. Called a mega-university, their goal is to reach the same level of excellence as MIT, Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard Universities. It is a center for scientific and technological research. PSL students, graduates, and faculty members are famous for being given many awards. The university has been started in 1339.

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Founder Humbert II of Viennois
University Palace, now IUT Grenoble 1
Part of the ex-UPMF facilities
Central avenue on Main campus in Saint-Martin-d'Hères (autumn 2016).
Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience (GIN)
Minatec complex
Park Geun-hye, President of South Korea
Richard von Weizsäcker, President of Germany
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland
Jacqueline Kennedy, First Lady of the United States
Masako Owada, Empress of Japan
Abdoulaye Wade, President of Senegal
Gérard Mourou, Physicist & 2018 Nobel laureate
Jean-Jacques Favier, CNES Astronaut
Charles Elachi, Director of the JPL
Joseph Sifakis, Computer scientist, Turing recipient
Alim Louis Benabid, Neurosurgeon
Aurélien Barrau, physicist and philosopher

See also

In Spanish: Universidad de Grenoble para niños

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