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The Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma program in Systems and Microsystems for Physics and Biotechnology is now ten years old and ready for an overhaul. Starting this year the program will focus primarily on biomedical engineering, and the 48 students starting the program this fall will all follow the same curriculum—instead of being divided into two […] >>

Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma welcomed 382 freshmen to its campus this September, along with ten students in the new micro and nanoelectronics integrated system design work-study program. This year’s total intake is more than 10% bigger than last year’s. Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma is continuing to gain recognition as a world-caliber engineering school. The school’s […] >>

Some 200 presidents from France’s top-tier universities will come to Grenoble on October 10–11, 2013 for a meeting of the prestigious Conférence des grandes écoles (CGE). The meeting will be hosted by Grenoble Institute of Technology and Grenoble Ecole de Management, and will take place on the Phelma campus. This year’s theme, “Innovation and value […] >>

Could enzymes like hydrogenases be used instead of costly platinum as hydrogen catalysts? The answer could be yes, according to research published in the July issue of Nature magazine. A team of scientists* has developed a reacting agent that completely activates a previously inactive hydrogenase. This hydrogenase is used by micro-organisms that rely on hydrogen […] >>

In a ceremony at MINATEC on March 26, 2013, Jean Therme, head of France’s Atomic and Alternative Energy Commission (CEA), awarded the Knight of the French National Order of Merit medal to Philippe Mallein, an innovation and user-driven design consultant for CEA-DRT and for MINATEC’s IDEAs Lab, which he helped establish. Mallein sees himself as […] >>