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Eight professors appointed at EPFL

Published:07.12.12 — At its meeting held in December, the Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology appointed eight professors at EPFL.

A driverless electric shuttle makes its way through the EPFL campus

Published:07.12.12 — Created by the French society Induct, Navia shuttles are designed to transport people over the “first and last miles” of a journey. EPFL's Innovation Square hosts a Research and Development team for Induct and will use its first vehicle for education and experiment, before setting up a real transportation service on the campus.

Renewing the biotechnology sector in the Lake Geneva Region

Published:06.12.12 — A dedicated Consortium comprised of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Dr Hansjörg Wyss and the Bertarelli family has developed a project to convert part of the former Merck Serono site in Geneva into a multi-development facility. The project, "Campus Biotech", will be a center of excellence in healthcare, biotechnology and life sciences, and will renew the vitality and competitiveness of this important sector in the Lake Geneva Region.

EPFL's heating a treat for lake trouts

Published:05.12.12 — A recently conducted study also shows that the streams surrounding EPFL can handle future campus growth.

A research chair for lakes

Published:03.12.12 — EPFL and Ferring Pharmaceuticals are inaugurating a Chair for the study of lake environments. The partnership aims to improve our understanding and protection of these vital and fragile ecosystems.

Pushing Natural Light into the Heart of Buildings

Published:30.11.12 — Through a research project designed at MIT and continued at EPFL, researchers have designed windows that can bring natural light deep into a building. This technology was recently integrated into six floors of an ultra-modern building in Tokyo.

Illuminating the no-man's land of waters' surface

Published:28.11.12 — Sylvie Roke, scientist in EPFL’s Bioengineering Institute, is refuting previously held theories and offering a new explanation of electrochemical phenomena occurring at the interface between water and a hydrophobic matter. A new paradigm may be on the horizon.