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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, 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - This week catch all the movies nominated for the Swiss Film Awards 2013 at the Grutli Theater for only CHF5 a movie; then attend the Swiss equivalent of the Oscars’ in one of the most beautiful buildings in Geneva, the Batiment de Forces Motrices. Organizers say “originality, bravery, poetry and social commentary characterize the [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Cern has completed its LHC (Large Hadron Collider) first three-year running period, which, the Geneva organization says “has seen major advances in physics, including the discovery of a new particle that looks increasingly like the long–sought Higgs boson, announced on 4 July 2012. And during the last weeks of the run, the [...]
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