Tag: Women + Leadership
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Panel Discussion: Women in Academia
On November 28, 2024 Women in Natural Sciences (WiNS) will host an event at the ETHZ with a panel discussion featuring four of our members on the topic of Women in Academia. This is the second event of its kind that WiNS has organized and both times with a varied group of panel members. The event…
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Ruth Signorell to give talk at EPFL
On October 28, 2024 Prof. Ruth Signorell of the ETHZ will take part in the IMX Seminar Series at EPFL with her talk titled “Chemical and physical processes in the confined environment of an aerosol particle”. It will take place from 13:15 to 14:15 at the MXF 1 hall. View more details on the event…
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Spotlight Seminar Series: Women in STEM
The next installment of the D-BAUG Spotlight seminar series is coming up on June 25th 2024, under the theme of Geospatial Modelling Challenges. The event is followed by a panel discussion touching on aspects/considerations for women in STEM. Deadline to register: June 17th
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Anna Fontcuberta i Morral appointed as EPFL president
Congratulations to Prof. Anna Fontcuberta i Morral for her appointment as EPFL president, starting on January 1, 2025. She has been at EPFL since 2008, when she began as Assistant Professor Tenure Track and became Full Professor in 2019. Anna Fontcuberta i Morral is the first woman to head one of the two Swiss Federal…
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Karen Scrivener selected by UN Secretary-General to be Representative in 10-Member Group for Sustainable Development Goals
Congratulations to Prof. Karen Scrivener for being selected by the United Nations Secretary-General for the Group of Ten High-level Representatives of Civil Society, Private Sector and Scientific Community to Promote Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (10-Member Group). As an internationally recognized engineering expert in developing environmentally friendly building materials from decades…
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Sexism in Academia
“Sexism in academia is bad for science and a waste of public funding“: an article which can receive no better introduction than its own title. This one in the Nature Reviews Materials online journal and another similar article in The Conversation are two articles co-authored by two of our members, Ursula Keller and Janet Hering.…
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Death by a Thousand Cuts
Women are being forced out of careers in science and engineering, not because they can’t juggle babies and Bunsen burners, but because they’re discouraged at every turn by thousands of small, sexist moments that make them feel unwelcome and unworthy. Reddit interim CEO Ellen Pao, who just lost a major sexdiscrimination lawsuit against her former…
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Retaining More Academic Women
Where are all the women in higher education? There is evidence supporting that women are underrepresented in academe today. How can colleges and universities open up the path to leadership for women in the future? In a special collection of articles published by the Chronicle of Higher Education (Washington D. C., 2015), you find a…