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This year Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma engineering school and Grenoble-Alpes University (UGA) will once again enter the iGEM synthetic biology competition held by Boston’s MIT. The Grenoble team, which includes four students from Phelma and six from UGA’s School of Pharmacy, will develop a portable, self-contained cholera test kit. A DNA sequence from the […] >>

Imagine an electron as fast as Usain Bolt! Sabrina Fadloun had the jury—and the entire audience—hanging on her every word at the Grenoble-Alpes University finals of the MT 180 (My Thesis in 180 Seconds, inspired by the Three Minute Thesis®) competition held at MINATEC on April 13. Two other PhD candidates from Grenoble Institute of […] >>

Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma engineering school and the University of Bristol (England) recently signed a nuclear energy partnership. The two institutions had previously been ERASMUS partners for several years. Nuclear energy is a high-growth field in southwestern England, where French electric utility EDF is building two EPR™ pressurized-water-type reactors that will be commissioned in […] >>

A total of ten projects will go head to head at the Inno’Cup Junior finals at MINATEC on July 11 and 12. Teen innovators (aged 15–18) will present a wide variety of product and service prototypes of their own design that include Eggyourt (an egg-based yogurt for the lactose intolerant), I-Zheimer (a connected bracelet to […] >>

On March 24 NXP and Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma engineering school signed a partnership agreement—the first of its kind—that included an equipment donation. NXP agreed to finance the equipment for a new teaching lab for the Embedded Systems and Connected Objects and Signal, Image, Communications, and Multimedia majors. The partnership was signed during the […] >>