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February 6, 2015

February 6, 2015The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 67 new members and 12 foreign members, announced NAE President Dan Mote Jr. Thursday, February 5th.

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December 12, 2014

December 12, 2014At its meeting on 10 and 11 December 2014, the ETH Board elected Johny Wüest to become a member of the Eawag Directorate.

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November 24, 2014

November 24, 2014At the ETH Day 2014 Lisa Scholten was awarded the Otto Jaag Water Protection Prize for her dissertation. This prize is given in recognition of outstanding doctoral and master‘s dissertations on the topic of water protection and hydrology and was handed over by Prof. Dr. Lino Guzzella, Rector ETHZ.

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September 19, 2014

September 19, 2014Eawag researcher Dr Tove Larsen will become the new member of the Directorate. She will succeed Professor Hansruedi Siegrist, who will retire at the end of September 2014, as from 1 October 2014.

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August 29, 2014

August 29, 2014Thursday 28 August, 2014 saw a visit to Eawag by Education Minister Schneider-Ammann. He congratulated Director Janet Hering on having been elected for a third term in office, and spoke in glowing terms of the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, hailing it as one of the flagships of Switzerland’s altogether exemplary education and research landscape.

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August 26, 2014

August 26, 2014NEST: The house of the future

The construction of the modular research and innovation house NEST got underway at its ground-breaking ceremony on August 26. The building’s frame, its “backbone”, should be completed by the summer of 2015, upon which the first research modules will be installed.

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August 20, 2014

August 20, 2014On the recommendation of the ETH Board the Bundesrat has re-elected Janet Hering as Director of Eawag until 2018. More information and interview with Prof Janet Hering: Switzerland: a leading example of sustainable water management.

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August 11, 2014

August 11, 2014Bernhard Truffer, Head of the Department of Environmental Social Sciences, was appointed Professor of “Geography of Transitions in Urban Infrastructures” at the Faculty for Geosciences in the University of Utrecht at the beginning of August 2014.

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April 8, 2014

April 8, 2014On Saturday, 17 May 2014, a celebration open to the public will be held along the revitalised Chriesbach on the Eawag premises in Dübendorf.

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March 20, 2014

March 20, 2014Florian Altermatt receives an professorships form the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). The Professorship will be associated with the Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich. The funding period is 4 years and may be extended by no more than 2 years.

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