Join our Art Workshop and explore the world of watercolour painting! This class is designed for all skill levels, led by Anish Kirtane, a passionate PhD student and a skilled painter. During the workshop, you’ll learn watercolour techniques and create your own painting, inspired by beautiful scenes from Crimea. Anish will provide step-by-step guidance to…
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Life Sciences Switzerland (LS2) – the largest Life Sciences Society and Network in Switzerland – wants to invite you to the first LS2 Social Event – a hiking trip to Oeschinen Lake (German: Oeschinensee). Join us on 02 July 2023 (SUNDAY) at 10:00 at a Kandersteg Bahnhof and enjoy a 4-hour hike. The hike is…
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How the Mind Creates Language For the June’s bookclub we will discuss about “https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5755.The_Language_Instinct”. It lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker…
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We call for a new feminist strike on June 14th, 2023! Since 2019, when half a million people took over the Swiss streets to demand gender equality, we have had some successes but also drawbacks. In higher education specifically we still notice persistent sexist, LGBTQ+phobic, racist, classist, ableist, and ageist discriminatory structures and practices, which…
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We, UASAZ (Ukrainian Association of Students and Academics in Zurich), are happy to announce that on Thursday, 8 June 2023 at 18:30 we are hosting a lecture given by PD Dr. Marcus Matthias Keupp, Military Academy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich “Ukraine beyond the war – civil reconstruction and military security”. The…
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SPP Meetup Zurich is organised by Polonium Foundation in collaboration with AVETH, the association of scientific staff at ETH, supported by our Platinum Partner NCBR IDEAS, and honorary patronage of the Polish Embassy in Bern. The event will take place on 23rd September 2023 in Zurich, Switzerland, in the central campus of ETH. We would…
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WiNS was founded as the female association of D-CHAB in 2014. We were joined by D-BIOL in 2021 and recently by D-MATL and finally D-PHYS! We are thrilled to announce that we now officially represent female PhD students and scientific staff in D-PHYS – welcome!
Finish off the semester right by joining us for our next social event – the WiNS Pub Quiz! Meet new people and test your knowledge on feminist icons across science, music, pop culture and more! Expect a relaxed and fun evening, with plenty of time to mingle and let your hair down with our beautiful WiNS community. There will…
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Have you ever been curious about the production process of meat replacements? The recent ETH Spin-Off Planted Foods is doing exactly that. With AVETH, you have a chance to tour their production facilities and learn about the science behind delicious food that looks and tastes like meat, but isn’t meat. Join us at the Planted…
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AVETH Diversity has co-authored a response to the recent controversy regarding the “Leaky Pipeline in der Wissenschaft” study from researchers at UZH, AVETH Diversity strongly disagrees with the conclusions and recommendations of the authors, as well as the sensationalized media coverage of the topic. We are committed to improving ETH so that all students and…
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