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Martin Ackermann becomes new Eawag Director
Martin Ackermann, Professor at the Institute of Microbial Systems Ecology, will become the new Director of Eawag from 1 January 2023, succeeding Janet Hering. The Federal Council elected him on 29 June 2022 at the request of the ETH Board.
Three ETH start-ups win de Vigier Award
Last night, seven Swiss start-ups received the W.A. de Vigier Award. The two ETH spin-offs Alivion and NematX as well as ETH start-up Nemosia were among them.
High school students build drones
During the ETH Studienwoche in June, 30 highschool students from all over Switzerland designed, programmed, and built their own drones.
A glacier called Sermeq Konrad Steffen
A glacier in the north of Greenland now bears the name of the late WSL director and ETH professor. This is a posthumous tribute to his work.
Testing and determination of virus variant at the same time
Researchers at the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at ETH Zurich in Basel have developed a method that allows coronavirus diagnosis and virus variant determination in a single step. The method helps to detect emerging virus variants at an early stage.