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One hundred years after their first academic exchange, ENS and Princeton University Graduate School are celebrating a new agreement between the two institutions.

Professor Rodney D. Priestley, Dean of Princeton University Graduate School and co-signatory of the new agreement in Paris, explains the importance of international partnerships in scientific education, the challenges facing graduate schools and universities today, and how his year in Paris at ESPCI-PSL impacted his life.

Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty of the University of Chicago has been awarded an Honoris Causa doctorate by ENS for his work as a historian, specializing in South Asian civilization and post-colonial studies, climate change and globalization. A visiting professor at ENS, he took time out during his latest stay in Paris to talk about his work, the French influences on his student politics and how an Australian bushfire changed his academic career.

Salomé Carcy, a 2020 graduate of ENS-PSL’s medicine and science program, is now in her first year of PhD in biology at a prestigious US laboratory. Here, we take a look at the academic journey of a passionate woman who is driven by a singular sense of empathy and a deep curiosity about the “formidable human machine.”

Professor Nick Kaiser and researcher Dr. Niall Jeffrey represent two different generations of cosmologists at ENS-PSL. However, they share a common aim in helping to reveal the secrets of dark matter and dark energy, the two main constituents of the universe.

Salomé Carcy, a 2020 graduate of ENS-PSL’s medicine and science program, is now in her first year of PhD in biology at a prestigious US laboratory. Here, we take a look at the academic journey of a passionate woman who is driven by a singular sense of empathy and a deep curiosity about the “formidable human machine.”

Salomé Carcy, a 2020 graduate of ENS-PSL’s medicine and science program, is now in her first year of PhD in biology at a prestigious US laboratory. Here, we take a look at the academic journey of a passionate woman who is driven by a singular sense of empathy and a deep curiosity about the “formidable human machine.”

Arnaud Montabert est doctorant au Laboratoire de géologie de l’ENS-PSL. Sa recherche sur l’église Sant’Agata del Mugello s’inscrit dans un projet interdisciplinaire associant notamment les sismologues du département de Géosciences et les archéologues du département des Sciences de l’Antiquité de l’ENS.
En présentant ses travaux, le jeune chercheur nous invite à découvrir l’archéosismologie.

Elle est celle qui a levé le voile sur l'histoire des galaxies, mettant en évidence de nombreux phénomènes expliquant la formation et l'évolution de l'Univers. Excusez du peu.

L’astrophysicienne et normalienne Françoise Combes vient de recevoir la plus prestigieuse récompense française, la médaille d'or du CNRS. Rencontre avec une "role model", au parcours exceptionnel.

As a campaign to promote Equality and Diversity gains momentum in several ENS departments, its supporters are organizing an online screening in April of the ground-breaking film ‘Picture a Scientist.’ Open to all students and faculty, it will be followed by a panel discussion with guests including Marc Mézard, Director of ENS-PSL. In the meantime, two of the campaign’s supporters, post-docs Tahnée Engelen and Elenora van Rijsingen, discuss their personal experiences as women scientists -- and their agenda for change.

Augmenter la rapidité des tests de traitement du coronavirus avec un modèle in vitro avant passer les essais cliniques ? C’est l’un des nombreux avantages de l’approche organ on a chip à laquelle travaille actuellement l’équipe de Yong Chen, directeur du laboratoire de microfluidique au département de Chimie de l’ENS-PSL.