GenevaLunch » Education http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 25 May 2012 22:00:00 +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.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Bill Clinton teases Lausannehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/21/bill-clinton-teases-lausanne/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/21/bill-clinton-teases-lausanne/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 13:12:22 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=70384 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Shhh, Bill Clinton was in town. And Sean Penn tagged along. But a loud silence surrounded the visit by former US President Clinton, who gave a “private” keynote speech (no journalists invited) to participants in what IMD business school labelled  an “Inspire for Excellence” regional symposium Sunday 20 May at 17:00. Clinton’s [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/21/bill-clinton-teases-lausanne/feed/ 0 Europe to have historical weather DB, starting with Swiss datahttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/04/europe-to-have-historical-weather-db-starting-with-swiss-data/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/04/europe-to-have-historical-weather-db-starting-with-swiss-data/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 08:07:03 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69882 GenevaLunch.com Online database will help researchers, government planners prepare for natural disasters BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss national weather service, MeteoSwiss, and the University of Bern have brought online more than 125,000 historical data on weather, climate and natural disasters housed in a database called Euro-Climhist, the first such DB, unique in the world, according to [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/04/europe-to-have-historical-weather-db-starting-with-swiss-data/feed/ 0 Antiobiotics affected by water environment say EPFL researchershttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/20/antiobiotics-affected-by-water-environment-say-epfl-researchers/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/20/antiobiotics-affected-by-water-environment-say-epfl-researchers/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:50:25 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69248 GenevaLunch.com Findings could help development of new drugs for epilepsy, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – “Water isn’t just a neutral environment; it can also interact with the molecules and change their structure” EPFL researchers at the Laboratory of Molecular Physical Chemistry note in a statement about new findings that could lead to progress in [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/20/antiobiotics-affected-by-water-environment-say-epfl-researchers/feed/ 0 Olympic Museum in Lausanne 1st Swiss museum to join Google Art Projecthttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/03/olympic-museum-in-lausanne-1st-swiss-museum-to-join-google-art-project/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/03/olympic-museum-in-lausanne-1st-swiss-museum-to-join-google-art-project/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:44:37 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=68581 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The Olympic Museum in Lausanne has provided the Google Art Project with 104 artworks by 33 artists, from its collection. The museum is one of 155 worldwide to share part of their collection online and it is the first in Switzerland to do so. Art Project now includes Hans Erni’s 1983 “Basketball” [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/03/olympic-museum-in-lausanne-1st-swiss-museum-to-join-google-art-project/feed/ 1 Lausanne astrophysicists succeed in measuring black holeshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/22/lausanne-astrophysicists-succeed-in-measuring-black-holes/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/22/lausanne-astrophysicists-succeed-in-measuring-black-holes/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:25:23 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=68098 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – It takes a black hole to: measure another black hole, it turns out. Researchers at the EPFL polytechnic in Lausanne have been using, for the past two years, what they call “supermassive black holes acting as gravitational lenses” to measure, for the first time, other black holes. Scientists at the university’s laboratory [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/22/lausanne-astrophysicists-succeed-in-measuring-black-holes/feed/ 0 Hildebrand, former central bank head, goes to Oxfordhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/21/hildebrand-former-central-bank-head-goes-to-oxford/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/21/hildebrand-former-central-bank-head-goes-to-oxford/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:18:14 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=68108 GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Philipp Hildebrand, who resigned as chairman of the Swiss National Bank 9 January, has been named a senior visiting fellow by the University of Oxford in the UK. The Financial Times notes that “Hildebrand, who attended the prestigious institution for his doctorate on European integration, will join the new Blavatnik School of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/21/hildebrand-former-central-bank-head-goes-to-oxford/feed/ 0 Lift boosts digital conversations in Geneva areahttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/23/lift-boosts-digital-conversations-in-geneva-area/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/23/lift-boosts-digital-conversations-in-geneva-area/#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:04:01 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66900 GenevaLunch.com Getting a real Lift, 22-24 February by Ellen Wallace GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The number of conversations in Geneva centred around our digital lives, past, present and future, is up this week thanks to the annual Lift Conference, which opened Wednesday 22 February and ends Friday. The conference itself pulls in several hundred people from the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/23/lift-boosts-digital-conversations-in-geneva-area/feed/ 0 Accumulated energy determining factor in earthquakes’ intensityhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/20/accumulated-energy-determining-factor-in-earthquakes-intensity/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/20/accumulated-energy-determining-factor-in-earthquakes-intensity/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:29:14 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66818 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A doctoral student at EPFL in Lausanne has found the key to an important aspect of earthquakes: the cause of the varying intensity, that can make the difference between a minor and major earthquake. The findings by David Kammer, published 20 February in the journal Tribology Letters, provides new material for researchers [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/20/accumulated-energy-determining-factor-in-earthquakes-intensity/feed/ 0 The week’s hottest Swiss story: tidying up spacehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/20/the-weeks-hottest-swiss-story-tidying-up-space/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/20/the-weeks-hottest-swiss-story-tidying-up-space/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:31:57 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66803 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – What the world learned about Switzerland last week: the little nation known for its tidiness now intends to clean up space. One of the hottest-selling news agency stories last week, picked up in Toronto and Delhi and Los Angeles, was the result of an EPFL press release entitled “Cleaning up Earth’s orbit: [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/20/the-weeks-hottest-swiss-story-tidying-up-space/feed/ 0 EPFL to set up energy, chemistry branch in Valaishttp://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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