Category: News
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Yes to career – and family
On 3 September 2016 the German Women Academics Association presented the Sophie La Roche Prize for the third time. It was awarded to Prof. Dr. Martina Havenith, from the University of Ruhr-Bochum. The distinguished physicist has promoted the rights of women in research and teaching through her career, and has always been campaigner for equal…
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Worldwide media attention for the Millennium Technology Prize
The prize was nominated to Frances Arnold for her pioneering role in directed evolution, a new and quick way to engineer proteins. Articles on the Millennium Technology Prize highlighted the broad impact that the prize-winning innovation has on improving the quality of life for humankind and on environmental protection. With Frances Arnold’s innovations, non-renewable and…
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New Co-Chair of Leadership Summit
Silvia Dorn, Professor Emerita at the Department of Environmental Systems Science, Silvia Dorn has been appointed as Co-Chair of the International Entomology Leadership Summit: Improving the Human Condition through Insect Science, by the Entomological Society of America (ESA). This Summit convenes leaders and key partners to take on great challenges worldwide to which entomology can make a unique…
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General Assembly 2016
On April 19th the 5th general assembly of the ETH WPF took place at AKI Zurich. Key Issue of the GA was the proposal to expand the ETH WPF membership to include women faculty at EPFL (ETH Lausanne). The ETH WPF elected the following members for the WPF Executive Board: Ulrike Kutay &…
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ETH Professor Petra Dittrich honored
Last week, the European Research Council (ERC) announced the winners of the Consolidator Grants for talented young researchers. Petra Dittrich, a researcher at ETH, is one of those to receive the much-coveted funding. ETH professor Petra Dittrich uses lab-on-a-chip technology to develop miniaturized analysis systems for application in biology and chemistry. She would like to…
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ERC Starting Grants 2015
The European Research Council announced today that three members of the ETH WPF will receive an ERC starting grant: Vanessa Wood, Professor of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, for her project “Development of Quantitative Metrologies to Guide Lithium Ion Battery Manufacturing”, and Laura Nyström, Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, for her project “Soluble dietary…
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Mildred Dresselhaus: How to Enhance Young Female Scientists‘ Success?
A full auditorium for Professor Mildred Dresselhaus – more than 50 female scientists and a few male scientists came to listen to and discuss with the “queen of carbon science” (November 19th, 2015). Professor Dresselhaus shared with the group how she made her scientific career, starting off as an immigrants’ child born in New York’s…
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Advancing Women’s Leadership: Blocking Bias at Work
Stanford video on women in business Women make up half the population and have earned more than half of all undergraduate degrees in the U.S. since the early 1980s; yet women comprise only 17% of the U.S Congress, 4% of Fortune 500 CEOs, and 16% of the board of directors of major corporations. Learn the…
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Mastering Gender in Research Performance, Context and Outcomes
The Seventh EU Gender Summit, Berlin, November 6 – 7, 2015, focused on the topic: Mastering Gender in Research Performance, Context and Outcomes Berlin was the 2015 venue, because the German government recently approved legislation that requires major companies to allocate 30% of non-executive board positions to women. The 2015 Gender Summit examined new research…
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“Choose a job where work becomes pleasure.”
Janet Hering, Director of the water research institute Eawag and professor of environment- biogeochemistry at ETH Zurich, answers 33 questions about her managerial position at Eawag, about the mass immigration initiative and the importance of networking. PDF “Janet Hering – NZZ executive (german only)” Article on NZZ online