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Anyone walking across the ETH Zurich campus is moving through a landscape that is undergoing change. Sustainably redesigned green spaces promote a species-rich habitat ¨C right in the middle of everyday university life.

Sarbajit Banerjee receives the Royal Society of Chemistry¡¯s Centenary Prize for original insights into structure and chemical bonding far from equilibrium, and for excellence in communicating chemical principles underpinning clean energy to the public.?

ETH members can publish open access with Wiley free of charge ¨C retroactively from 1 January 2025.?

The ETH Library's GenAI Challenge has demonstrated the diverse ways in which generative AI is used at ETH Zurich and its?potential.

The Golden Lion for the best national contribution at the 2025 Architecture Biennale in Venice was awarded to the Bahrain Pavilion ¨C a project focused on heat-adapted architecture with original contributions from Professor Alexander Puzrin. In total, five projects involving the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering at ETH Zurich are on display at the Venice Biennale. They illustrate how research and technology can pave new ways for sustainable construction.

The French-American chemist Marie Perrin has been selected as one of the ten finalists for the European Patent Office¡¯s Young Inventors Prize 2025. She received the prize in the category "World builder". Her innovation enables the environmentally friendly recovery of the rare earth element europium from e-waste like discarded fluorescent lamps.

In five years, ETH Zurich will be able to move into new buildings on the education campus in?Heilbronn.?The design of the buildings has now been decided.

The Associate Professor at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology (D-HEST) has been accepted as a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Congratulations!

The rollout of the e-learning module ¡°Safety and Security at ETH Zurich¡± will begin tomorrow. This module teaches the basics of occupational safety and health in everyday life at ETH, as well as how to behave in the event of an incident. The Executive Board strongly recommends that all ETH members complete the module.

In May, Markus Schefer, professor of constitutional and administrative law at the University of Basel, gave a public lecture on the rights of people with disabilities. In their welcoming speeches, Ulrich Weidmann and Julia Dannath emphasised the values of openness and inclusion for ETH Zurich.