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Researchers, laypeople and learning machines are working together to find ways of containing the coronavirus. This is rendered possible by the new Citizen Science Project Builder. This web-based tool for research projects allows volunteers to classify large amounts of image, audio and text data.

All content from ScienceDirect is now accessible to ETH members.

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Despite the university going into emergency mode, staff at the Registrar’s Office have continued working in the Main Building. While the office now lacks face-to-face contact with its most important group of stakeholders, adapting to unforeseen events is nothing out of the ordinary for those who work there.

The first-ever survey of professors at ETH shows that they are generally satisfied with their working situation – but with some room for improvement.

ETH members are gradually returning to buildings on the campus. From 8 June especially, there will be increased activity in office buildings and laboratories. So the obvious question is, how best to protect ourselves. We asked the advice of Dr Leonhard Sigel, head of the Occupational Medicine and Health Protection section of SSHE at our university.

Additional online journals from various subject areas such as medicine, cartography and humanities are now available via ETH Library’s Search Portal.

For two months, ETH Zurich operated in emergency mode. During this time, the vast majority of buildings, lecture halls, laboratories and offices remained empty. Two photographers visited ETH in April in order to capture a largely deserted campus with only a few people still on site.

Create an ETH coronavirus meme about your experience during the emergency operations and make ETH Zurich laugh a little! The best memes will be published in the next "life" magazine.

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