Education

Mladen Dimovski presented a paper at the l'IJCAI-ECAI 2018

07.09.18 — IC - Student awards and publications Mladen Dimovski presented a paper based on his master project at the IJCAI-ECAI 2018  Read the whole article

Epfl

Using biosensors to deliver personalized doses of antibiotics

07.09.18 — Mediacom A team of eight EPFL students won the technical prize in the SensUs international competition, designing a portable biosensor that can measure the amount of vancomycin in a patient’s blood stream, enabling doctors to better control the dosage and reduce harmful side effects. Their technology – developed for the upcoming SensUs international competition – could eventually be used for other antibiotics as well. Read the whole article

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Sandrine Gerber chairs the SCS Fall Meeting 2018

07.09.18 — Group for Functionalized Biomaterials On 07.09.2018, ISIC hosted the SCS Fall Meeting 2018 on the EPFL Campus. Read the whole article

Campus Life

The 2018 catalogue has been published

07.09.18 — Laptop offers POSEIDON You can find all the new Apple, HP and Lenovo models in this lovely PDF. This way for the reseller websites. Read the whole article

Research

New grant awarded to Prof. Marc Gruber

06.09.18 — Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization Chair Marc Gruber has been awarded a grant by the SNF to explore the role of multi-level identity dynamics in the unfolding processes of entrepreneurial action and organizational emergence. Read the whole article

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An algorithm calculates the best way to visit 26 cantons in 24 hours

06.09.18 — Mediacom A team of EPFL students will take part in the Swiss Train Challenge this Friday. The goal is to set foot in each of Switzerland’s 26 cantons in less than 24 hours – relying solely on the country’s public transport network. Read the whole article

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Andrea Ablasser wins ACTERIA Prize

06.09.18 — SV | Life Sciences Andrea Ablasser, Professor at EPFL, has been awarded the ACTERIA Early Career Research Prize in Immunology. Read the whole article

Innovation

Two spin-offs among Switzerland's top three most promising start-ups

05.09.18 — Mediacom EPFL spin-offs Bestmile and Lunaphore took home second and third place in this year’s ranking of Switzerland’s 100 most promising startups at an awards ceremony last night in Zurich. Flyability and Gamaya, two other EPFL spin-offs, also made the top ten. The winners were selected by a panel of 100 innovation experts. Read the whole article

Research

Interview: Dolaana Khovalyg, new Assistant Professor

05.09.18 — EPFL Fribourg Dolaana Khovalyg was appointed Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Energy and Building Systems Technology at the School for Architecture, Civil, and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) at EPFL and Head of the Thermal Engineering for the Built Environment Laboratory (TEBEL) at the smart living lab in Fribourg as of 01.09.2018. Read the whole article

Innovation

New project: T&DFLEX

04.09.18 — SCCER - Future Swiss Electrical Infrastructure At the recent call of SFOE Grid program, 7 out of 9 approved projects were from SCCER-FURIES partners. This summer series of news will be dedicated to the short description of these projects. Read the whole article