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Two ETH Zurich computer scientists, Menna El-Assady (D-INFK) and Bernhard Sch?lkopf (D-INFK), have been elected by the United Nations General Assembly to the newly established Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence, a landmark initiative assessing the opportunities and risks of AI.?

ETH Zurich has been a Science Partner of the NZZ platform Sustainable Switzerland since 2022. The aim of this media partnership is to make scientifically grounded perspectives on sustainability topics accessible to a broad public.

Beat Weibel has been head of the ETH transfer unit since June 2025. In this interview, he reveals what brought him to ETH and where he sees opportunities in the commercialisation of research results.

To mark this year's International Women's Day, ETH Diversity is hosting an event that focuses on an important but often overlooked topic: menopause and its significance for everyday working life at ETH Zurich.

Outi Supponen, Professor at the Institute of Fluid Dynamics in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the 2026 Young Scientist Award by the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF). The ESRF honours her for pioneering contributions to experimental multiphase fluid dynamics.

Inclusion is a goal of ETH Zurich and, at the same time, a very abstract concept. It is put into practice and taught in concrete terms: Brian McGowan is a historian, teaches Disability Studies at ETH Zurich and uses a wheelchair. In this interview, he suggests that ETH could become even more inclusive in its research ¨C and Switzerland as a whole, for that matter.

Gerald Haug, Professor of Climate Geochemistry at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and former President of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, has been appointed to the German Federal Government¡¯s Council for Sustainable Development.

The existing service platform for event management and services provided by the 365ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø_365ÌåÓý±¸Óá¾ÊÖ»úÔÚÏß¡¿ Services department needs to be replaced for technical reasons.?A new, future-proof order portal based on the Microsoft PowerPlatform will be launched by mid-2027.

The next enrollment period at the Language Center of UZH and ETH Zurich begins on February 2, 2026. In addition to general language courses, our program includes courses and workshops in academic communication for employees and doctoral students.?

Double honour for the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering: at the Dandelion Entrepreneurship Awards, Professor Eleni Chatzi and Professor Ingo Burgert were each honoured with first prize in the categories ¡®Inspirer & Entrepreneurial Educator¡¯ and ¡®Connector & Venture Enabler¡¯, respectively.