News : Education

More than 3,000 students are enrolled in a new MOOC on habitable exoplanets that launched on June 1 on the FUN* platform. The course was created by Grenoble-Alpes University and the Grenoble Universe Science Observatory under the direction of astronomer Jean-Charles Augereau. Content was contributed by nine scientists, including Phelma graduate and INAC PhD candidate […] >>

Michel Barsoum (Drexel University, Pennsylvania): « I hope to spend more time in Grenoble in the coming years » You are known worldwide for your work on materials, particularly MAX phases. What brought you to Grenoble for three months? In materials science, to gain real understanding of a material you need large single crystals. The […] >>

Since April, Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma staffers have been invited to “Thursday Updates” held around once a month. The one-hour meetings aim to keep employees abreast of the school’s latest projects and provide a forum for informal discussion. The first Thursday Update focused on the restructuring of the Grenoble Institute of Technology’s logistics and maintenance […] >>

A group of third-year students at Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma (Carole Le Goc, Christopher Filosa, and Valentin Ramez) produced one of two short films that won awards in the first ever “Stereotype Busters” contest organized by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles, a French higher-education consortium. Students were invited to submit an original poster or film […] >>

In a project for the Nano@school program, seven Grenoble high-schoolers made solar cells from fruits and vegetables. CEA-INAC Ph.D. candidate Cyril Aumaître supervised the project, in which students extracted colorants from fruit and vegetable juices (spinach, blueberries, etc.) to make Grätzel cells, then characterize and model the cells before comparing their performance. And the outcomes […] >>