GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Prank day, near the end of the school year, is a tradition at a number of area schools, tolerated by some, curbed by others after abuses, and simply banned yesterday after the celebrations got out of control, according Le Matin. Institut Florimont in Petit Lancy reportedly banned scores of students from classes [...]
EPFL: antibiotics, wine ingredient, could give aging help
May 23, 2013 by
UPDATE – LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Researchers at the EPFL in Lausanne have shown that some common antibiotics increase longevity, with improved fitness and energy, in simple worms. The work, under the direction of Johan Auwerx, who holds the Nestlé metabolic energy chair at the university, offers promise for new research into solutions to human diseases [...]
Robert Spencer retires,18 years at Webster Geneva
May 17, 2013 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Robert Spencer’s retirement party at Webster University in Bellevue, Geneva Thursday evening 16 May brought together several hundred people: politicians, diplomats, former and current students and professors who marked 18 years that have transformed the school into a major part of international Geneva. Spencer has worked at the Geneva campus since 1995, [...]
Geneva cancer specialist wins new US award
May 17, 2013 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Pierre-Yves Dietrich has been awarded the “First annual cancer researcher of the year award by the Gateway for Cancer Research Foundation in the US, with prize money of $30,000 and additional financing worth $500,000 for clinical studies of his immune therapy for brain cancer, currently under review by Swissmedic. Swissmedic, the Swiss [...]
Cern to open scientific tourist trail
May 13, 2013 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Cern will inaugurate, 2 June, a “scientific tourist trail through the Pays de Gex and the Canton of Geneva known as the Passport to the Big Bang” the Geneva-based European Centre for Nuclear Research said Monday 13 May. Cern is scheduling activities for the public at its various sites that day. In [...]
Award-winning “smart sheets” a boon for bed-ridden
May 8, 2013 by
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Swiss researchers have been awarded Germany’s Techtextil Innovation Prize for a new “smart sheet” that promises a major improvement in care for people who are bedridden from illness or accidents. A private-public team focused on “a method of bedsore prevention that was impressive in its simplicity: a sheet with a particularly skin-friendly [...]
CA Technologies to fund EPFL startups
May 2, 2013 by
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – CA Technologies and EPFL have signed an agreement whereby the US firm, based in Islandia, New York, will contribute a “six-figure” sum each year for the next five years to an incubator fund at the polytechnic. The company will provides funds for Innogrant, a project set up in 2005 to encourage startups, [...]
Goodbye GenevaLiving, Hello Ellen’s News World
April 25, 2013 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – It is getting closer, the moment to say “au re-voir“. Geneva Living, this blog which I have been writing since March 2009, is making a move! I will still be writing about life in Geneva, but under GenevaLunch’s new platform, which begins 29 April. Expect major changes, though one thing will remain unchanged: great [...]
EPFL research shows great promise for nanowires
April 8, 2013 by
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Nanowires may hold the key to vastly cheaper solar-powered electricity, researchers at EPFL, working with scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark say. The group published a paper in late March in Nature Photonics, that is getting the attention of world solar power experts. “Solar technology integrating nanowires could capture large [...]
Religious matters on the menu
April 8, 2013 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland will see presentations by two notable religious leaders in April, some of the highlights of several conferences, talks and debates centred around religion. The Dalai Lama, Tibetan religious leader who has a strong interest in science will be in Bern, Fribourg and Lausanne 13-16 April, attending the Forum Fribourg. He will [...]
