Category: News
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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…
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ETH Zurich appoints women professors – Sept. 2014
The Board of ETH Zurich recently appointed the following women professors: Prof. Dr Petra S. Dittrich (*1974), currently Tenure Track Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich, as Associate Professor of Bioanalytics. Prof. Dr Cornelia Halin Winter (*1974), currently Tenure Track Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich, as Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Immunology. Dr Ulrike Grossner (*1973), currently Principal Scientist…
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Sereina Riniker is the youngest Professor at ETH Zurich
Prof. Sereina Riniker is professor for Computational Chemistry at the Institute of Physical Chemistry. At 29 years old, Sereina Riniker is currently the youngest professor at ETH Zurich (elected in June 2014). In the interview she explains how she experienced her start and how she wants to motivate her students. More on the ETH-website
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ETH Spark Award 2014
Jennifer Rupp, SNSF Professor at the Department of Materials, and her research team received the ETH Spark Award 2014 for having developed a powerful and energy-efficient data storage device for mobile electronic devices.
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3rd annual Chemical Research in Toxicology Young Investigator Award
Shana Sturla, Associate Professor at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology, has been nominated for the third annual Chemical Research in Toxicology Young Investigator Award of the American Chemical Society. She accepted the award at the 248th ACS National Meeting in San Francisco / California (USA), in August 2014.
