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Olga Sorkine-Hornung wins Rössler Prize

Touring Exhibition: "Umsicht â?- Regards â?’

Construction start for NEST unit ’dfab
On May 2, at the ground-breaking ceremony for the NEST unit ‘dfab house', the project team, consisting of the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) ‘Digital Fabrication', ETH Z

Photography: An unusual and surprising picture of science
The winning entries from the first SNSF Scientific Image Competition offer a view of science that is aesthetic, nuanced and complex.

Spark Award for fundamental research
ETH Professor Sabine Werner and her team won the Spark Award 2017 yesterday for their groundbreaking new approach to combating viral diseases. If their results can be confirmed, they could lead to the development of better treatments for viral diseases such as herpes.

Nicola Spaldin receives L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science award

NEST receives SIA Umsicht award

EPFL among the top five recipients of ERC grants

Mathematics as key competency
Data collection and analysis is becoming increasingly important in today's world. This is particularly true for the economic and societal development of poorer nations.

Jan S. Hesthaven appointed Dean of EPFL's School of Basic Sciences

The secret to good teaching

The R. Geigy Foundation honours efforts to overcome ’neglected tropical diseases
Giovanna Raso and Jean Coulibaly are the awardees of the R. Geigy-Award 2016 and will share a CHF 20,000 prize in honour of their efforts to fight neglected helminth infections in West Africa.

SwissFEL inauguration
Today, on 5 December 2016, the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI held an inauguration ceremony for its new large-scale research facility Swiss FEL, with Johann N. Schneider-Ammann, President of the Swiss Confederation, in attendance.

NEST’s partner project «MeshMould» wins

Fifty years of the Archives of Contemporary History
What began as a student initiative has today become one of Switzerland's most distinguished archives.

SNSF launches scientific image competition in Switzerland
The Swiss National Science Foundation is launching a competition for scientific images and videos. Open to researchers working in Switzerland, the competition aims to reveal the hidden beauty of science.

At the frontier of quantum physics

Innovation Award for new flame retardant

EPFL's Open Days: a major success
Close to 35,000 people took advantage of EPFL's Open Days this past weekend to visit the school's campus, where the new ArtLab building also just opened.

Novartis Wins Two Prestigious Prix Galien Foundation Awards; Gleevec recognized as "Discovery of the Decade" for Best Pharmaceutical Product, Cosentyx as Best Biotechnology Product
Novartis Wins Two Prestigious Prix Galien Foundation Awards; Gleevec recognized as "Discovery of the Decade" for Best Pharmaceutical Product, Cosentyx as Best Biotechnology Product Basel, October 31,

Molten salt reactors – exploring an alternative
The Paul Scherrer Institute PSI was formed in 1988, in part from the Swiss Federal Institute for Reactor Research.

EPFL celebrates its new graduates

Rosetta, ESA’s historic mission, bids farewell after rendez-vous with comet Chury
Bern, 27.09.2016 - Rosetta is set to complete its mission in a controlled descent to the surface of its comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 30 September 2016.

Nutritionist Professor Johan Auwerx wins the 2016 Marcel Benoist Prize
Bern, 27.09.2016 - Johan Auwerx, Professor at the ETH Lausanne (EPFL), has been awarded this year's Marcel Benoist Prize for his work on mitochondria and their role in the metabolism.

SwissCube: seven years in space and still active
23.09.16 - The little Swiss satellite was launched on 23 September 2009 and continues to send back regular reports.

Letting ideas flow
Water was the focus of ETH Week 2016. For the second edition of this week-long event, ETH Zurich called on bachelor's and master's students from all departments to approach a subject creatively and develop collective solutions.

A leader with good instincts
ETH's sixth annual togETHer staff party was held on Friday, 26 th August. It was also a very special occasion for Lorenz Hurni, Professor of Cartography, who was presented with the Golden Tricycle award in recognition of his skill in fostering an optimum balance between work and family life.

Medals Awarded to Physics Talent at the International Physics Olympiad
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Alireza Mesdaghinia wins WHO Dr. Lee Jong-wook Memorial Prize for Public Health 2016

Christine Mensch wins a University of Basel Teaching Excellence Award 2016?

Marie Heim-Vögtlin Prize 2016: The ghosts of Zoë Lehmann Imfeld

Isabelle Musy Award: 50'000 francs for the start up BioMe

PolyLAN: the art of online esports

Promising method for breast cancer screening
A radiation-free and painless ultrasound method instead of a mammogram is how Orçun Göksel and Sergio Sanabria would like breast cancer screens to be carried out in the future. The technology developed by the two ETH researchers, which can also detect other diseases, was yesterday awarded the Spark Award 2016.

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