News : Education

With a ten-year history and some 200 graduates, the FAME (Functional Advanced Materials and Engineering) Master’s program recently received the European Erasmus Mundus seal for the third time. The program, which is coordinated by Phelma with the support of seven European universities*, will be called FAME+ starting in September 2018. The curriculum will focus heavily […] >>

Pierre Benech will succeed Brigitte Plateau as President of Grenoble Institute of Technology following Plateau’s appointment to a position with the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation. Benech was named to the post in late November for a term that will last until February 2020. Bernard Penz was voted in as Vice Chairman […] >>

Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma student Yoann Rey-Ricord, age 23, took a gap year in the Amazon rainforest to participate in a volunteer project run by AKUU, the nonprofit group he cofounded in 2016. The group supports projects in the fields of energy, tourism, waste management, and biodiversity in the Amazon rainforest. Yoann has been living […] >>

Tell us about SnapLab, the project that originated in Grenoble and that won a gold medal at the iGEM finals at MIT. SnapLab is a portable and very easy-to-use cholera test kit that can detect a sequence of nucleic acid in a stool sample and emit fluorescence if the bacteria responsible for cholera are present. […] >>

On February 8, all CEA centers will host the 7th Scientifique, toi aussi ! [You, too, can be a scientist!] open house on careers in science. In Grenoble, nearly 80 high-school students from science tracks and youth participating in a special outreach program will spend the day at Phelma. The traditional speed-networking meetings, very well […] >>