News : Education

Michel Barsoum of Drexel University’s (Philadelphia) Materials Science and Engineering Department has just been appointed to the Grenoble-Alpes University-Fondation Nanosciences Chair of Excellence to pursue his research on MAX phases. Barsoum will create two-dimensional systems from a new family of composites, MXenes. MXenes, which offer some extraordinary properties, are obtained by etching a MAX phase […] >>

Thanks to major renovations completed several months ago, the LPSC (the Subatomic Physics and Cosmology Laboratory operated by Grenoble Institute of Technology and Grenoble-Alpes University) nuclear instrumentation platform has been completely transformed. A 240 sq. m addition has substantially expanded the facility, and the workspace was redesigned around four classrooms, one of which is equipped […] >>

The 22nd annual Grenoble Institute of Technology adventure race will take place on May 6 and 7 in the Vercors mountains. The team event, organized by the students, is open to all: working professionals, women, men, the disabled…everyone is welcome! A qualification race will be held on March 25 on a completely new route in […] >>

Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma engineering school will be saving two slots next fall for students coming out of preparatory classes in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Earth Science (formed when the Biology and Veterinary prep programs merged). This is the first time the school’s admissions policy allows students from these programs to apply. The goal […] >>

Next September Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma engineering school will welcome a cohort of fifteen students to its new international Master’s in Advanced Materials for Innovation and Sustainability (AMIS).   The curriculum covers the entire materials value chain, with a focus on integrating materials into a sustainable economy, and includes classes on innovation and entrepreneurship. […] >>