GenevaLunch » Education http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:57:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no EPFL to set up energy, chemistry branch in Valais http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/10/epfl-to-set-up-energy-chemistry-branch-in-valais/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/10/epfl-to-set-up-energy-chemistry-branch-in-valais/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:12:53 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=65118 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Canton Vaud’s federal polytechnic institute, EPFL and canton Valais signed an agreement of intention Tuesday 10 January in Sion to establish a branch of the school in canton Valais, most likely in Sion but working closely with a number of existing services throughout the canton. A formal agreement and plans will be [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/10/epfl-to-set-up-energy-chemistry-branch-in-valais/feed/ 0 Payerne students evacuate after vacuum cleaner burns http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/30/payerne-students-evacuate-after-vacuum-cleaner-burns/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/30/payerne-students-evacuate-after-vacuum-cleaner-burns/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:13:15 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64258 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Some 350 students unexpectedly had a free hour, but out in the chilly November air Wednesday morning after an industrial vacuum cleaner caught fire at a school in Payerne, canton Vaud. The machine filled the Derrière la Tour secondary school with smoke at 08:30 and students were ordered to leave. An hour [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/30/payerne-students-evacuate-after-vacuum-cleaner-burns/feed/ 0 Leenaards gives away half million to encourage region’s culture http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/29/leenaards-gives-away-half-million-to-encourage-regions-culture/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/29/leenaards-gives-away-half-million-to-encourage-regions-culture/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:03:20 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=64218 GenevaLunch.com Winners include 16-year-old Vaud musical prodigy Mélodie Zhao LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The Leenaards Foundation has given CHF500,000 in prizes and scholarships to encourage artists in the region. One of the winners is 16-year-old Mélodie Zhao of Saint Prex, who last summer became the youngest ever person to receive a master’s degree in music from the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/29/leenaards-gives-away-half-million-to-encourage-regions-culture/feed/ 0 Bye-bye energy-hog electronics in 2017, EPFL suggests http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/22/bye-bye-energy-hog-electronics-in-2017-epfl-suggests/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/22/bye-bye-energy-hog-electronics-in-2017-epfl-suggests/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:09:05 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63810 GenevaLunch.com Tunnel-FET technology set to take over from field effect Tactile screens also on the way LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Computers, cell phones and other electronic devices could be using 100 times less energy starting in just six years, an EPFL researcher in Lausanne writes in a special issue of Nature devoted to transistors, published Tuesday 22 [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/22/bye-bye-energy-hog-electronics-in-2017-epfl-suggests/feed/ 0 Geneva welcomes Switzerland’s first Confucius Institute http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/14/geneva-welcomes-switzerlands-first-confucius-institute/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/14/geneva-welcomes-switzerlands-first-confucius-institute/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:56:19 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63526 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The first Confucius Institute in Switzerland opened in October at the University of Geneva but last week courses officially opened in the master’s degree students, accompanied by a meeting between Ji Baocheng, president of the University of Renmin, China, and Pierre Willa, head, International Relations Office, University of Geneva. The Confucius Institute [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/14/geneva-welcomes-switzerlands-first-confucius-institute/feed/ 0 Peugeot-Citroen boosts growing EPFL-big industry ties http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/03/peugeot-citroen-boosts-growing-epfl-big-industry-ties/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/03/peugeot-citroen-boosts-growing-epfl-big-industry-ties/#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:25:47 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63198 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Peugeot-Citroën Thursday became the 11th major firm to join the Innovation Square on the EPFL campus, the first company from the car industry to bring in a large research and development budget, according to the universiy. The square opened in August 2010. The group said in a press release 3 November that [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/03/peugeot-citroen-boosts-growing-epfl-big-industry-ties/feed/ 2 New tool tracks heart rate in real time http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/20/new-tool-tracks-heart-rate-in-real-time/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/20/new-tool-tracks-heart-rate-in-real-time/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:07:00 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62651 GenevaLunch.com Wearing  your heart on your sleeve to take on a new meaning LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A tiny new device could soon provide real-time heart monitoring that might help prevent some of the 70-100,000 deaths annually from sudden onset heart attacks. The new tool has yet to be tested in real-life conditions, but cardiologists are enthusiastic [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/20/new-tool-tracks-heart-rate-in-real-time/feed/ 1 Eventful week at Int’l school, with truce walker, new building http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/19/eventful-week-at-intl-school-with-truce-walker-new-building/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/19/eventful-week-at-intl-school-with-truce-walker-new-building/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:49:09 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62619 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Students at the International School of Geneva are having an eventful week before breaking up Friday for a holiday week: an inspiring visit from Lord Michael Bates of the British Parliament Wednesday is being followed by the inauguration of a major building project for a new primary school in Founex which opened [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/19/eventful-week-at-intl-school-with-truce-walker-new-building/feed/ 0 Swiss come out Euro tops at London WorldSkills http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/11/swiss-come-out-euro-tops-at-london-worldskills/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/11/swiss-come-out-euro-tops-at-london-worldskills/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:08:43 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62396 GenevaLunch.com LONDON, ENGLAND – Switzerland is the top European country and third in the world for professional skills training, based on gold and silver medals won at the WorldSkills competition which just closed in London 10 October. Fifty-three nations took part in the competition, which runs every two years and is open to professional workers under [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/11/swiss-come-out-euro-tops-at-london-worldskills/feed/ 0 Fribourg U vice-rector resigns over plagiarism http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/04/fribourg-u-vice-rector-resigns-over-plagiarism/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/04/fribourg-u-vice-rector-resigns-over-plagiarism/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:59:53 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62066 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Philippe Gugler, the vice-rector of the University of Fribourg has resigned, the university announced 3 October, in the wake of an investigation into plagiarism. Gugler was the subject of an inquiry that began in August after he was accused of laxity in checking the originality of papers where he was listed as [...]

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