Category: News
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New ETHZ-Rector hosts a gathering for women professors
Prof. Sarah Springman, the new Rector of ETH Zurich from January 2015, invites her female colleagues to an event for women professors. The new Rector resumes an initiative of the first woman Rector of ETH Zurich, Prof. Heidi Wunderli-Allenspach, to host an annual gathering of the women professors at ETH Zurich. The event will take place on Tuesday,…
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ETH Zurich appoints women professors – Dec. 2014
The Board of ETH Zurich recently appointed the following women professors: Dr Clara Sánchez Rodríguez (*1980), currently Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam, Germany, as Assistant Professor of Plant Cell Biology. Prof. Dr Olga Sorkine Hornung (*1981), currently Tenure Track Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich, as Associate Professor of Computer…
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Jennifer Rupp plays in the Champions League of electrochemical materials
Jennifer Rupp is Professor at ETH Zurich and a top scientist in electrochemical materials. The Swiss newspaper “Tagesanzeiger” published a portrait about the multi-talented woman. Read more about her career at Tagesanzeiger of 28.11.2014 (in German)…
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Awards + Prizes at ETH Day 2014
On ETH Day which was celebrated on 24 November 2014 members of the ETH Women Professors Forum received the “Golden Owl” Award. The “Golden Owl” was initiated by the students’ association of ETH Zurich (VSETH) in 2005 in order to honor lecturers for their excellent teaching. The following members of the ETH Women Professors Forum were…
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Women Professors on Campus – Vanessa Wood
Prof. Vanessa Wood will give a lecture of the seminar series Professors on Campus at ETH Zurich Vanessa Wood, Professor from the Laboratory for Nanoelectronics at the Department Information Technology and Electrical Engineering will talk about “Understanding and Optimizing Solution-Processed Solids for Energy Applications”. on 17 November 2014, 17:15 h at Main Building, Room D…
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Teaching methods to overcome the gender gap in physical sciences
Public Lecture “Assessment: The Silent Killer of Learning” by Eric Mazur, Professor in Physics at Harvard University ETH Zurich invites all interested people to the public lecture of Prof. Eric Mazur on 27 November 2014, 15:00 h – 17:30 h at ETH Zürich, Main Building, room F30 (Audimax) Welcome speech by Prof. Sarah Springman, incoming…
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Childcare service at ETH Zurich: potential for improvement evident
An online study about the child care services at ETH Zurich carried out by Human Resources and an external consultant showed the parents’ satisfaction and needs. The survey shows that most childcare is provided by partners, grandparents and other relatives. However, many parents wish to be more able to make use of the popular facilities…
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SNSF develops innovative approaches to equal opportunities
Swiss National Science Foundation appointed a new Gender Equality Commission in order to find new ways of enhancing equal opportunies in its research funding. The independent Commission is composed by international experts and chaired by Susan M. Gasser, director of the Friedrich Miescher Institute and professor at the University of Basel. “We have to face…
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Hedi Fritz-Niggli Visiting Professorship
Salomé Régine Leibundgut, SNSF Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology, Institute for Microbiology, has been awarded the Hedi Fritz-Niggli Visiting Professorship of University of Zurich. This professorship aims to heighten the visibility of women professors as role models for junior women academics. Professor Leibundgut conducts her scientific research about fungal infections at the VetSuisse Faculty of…