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BRIDGE, the funding initiative of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and Innosuisse, reviewed 108 applications and ultimately approved 15 innovation projects, including Daniel Richard's project (deMello Group).?The project is supported with CHF 2.5 million. The chemist intends to use the funding to develop affordable, portable, and rapid diagnostic technology for tuberculosis.

Torsten Hoefler, Professor at the Department of Computer Science (D-INFK) at ETH Zurich and Chief Architect for AI at CSCS, and his team, together with CSCS engineers, won this year¡¯s Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling. ETH Professor Mathieu Luisier (D-ITET) and his team, collaborating with Hoefler and also finalists, received the ACM Honorable Mention.?

On November 20, 2025, ETH Zurich once again presented two special awards in a festive ceremony ¨C the ALEA Award for exemplary leadership and the Diversity Award for outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion.

We are pleased to inform you about this year's blood donation campaign. Students and staff at ETH Zurich have the opportunity to replenish urgently needed reserves by donating blood at both the H?nggerberg and Zentrum campus.

This year¡¯s Golden Owl teaching award goes to Johan Gaume, Professor of Alpine Mass Movements at ETH Zurich and SLF Davos. Through hands-on experiments, blackboard derivations and simulations, he brings the physics of granular materials like sand and snow vividly to life. For him, teaching and learning are driven by passion, curiosity and enjoyment.

The Collegium Helveticum has received a generous donation from the NOMIS Foundation. This will enable the Collegium, as Zurich¡¯s Institute for Advanced Study, to expand its fellowship programme for established international researchers. Questions and answers about who will benefit from the new fellowships ¨C and what they will fund.?

The?titular professor of geodynamics is?honoured?by students for his empathetic manner and enormous?expertise.?

With ScienceDirect AI, the ETH Library offers a new AI-supported research tool that assists researchers in searching, analysing and summarising scientific literature.

The staff association transfair and AVETH, the association of scientific staff at ETH Zurich, invite you to a convivial get-together at ETH Zurich on 27 November, with raclette, mulled wine and trade union spirit.

Digital accessibility has been an important topic at ETH Zurich for several years. The Accessibility Espresso takes up the proven format of the Coffee Lectures and highlights an aspect of accessibility in short presentations.