Episode 2
Jennifer’s story is one of coming full circle. Originally from Detroit and having recently moved back there, Jennifer explains how her serendipitous path and global living experiences built on each other: From Detroit to Colorado to study anthropology; to Senegal and Ghana in order to see this work on the ground; to New York and living through 9/11, creating a need to focus on understanding terrorism and crisis, which took her to California for further studies; to Switzerland in order to go deeper in this field at the ETH Zurich Center for Security Studies; and back to the US. Back to Detroit in fact, to be a part of a new community that looks to create spaces and rebuild the city in a new light, based to a large extent on the theoretical background and principles from her work at ETH. “ETH gave me a canvas, and they gave me the best paints in the world. And they said: “paint what you want.” And as a creative, in terms of thinking, writing, seeing, interpreting, analyzing, it gave me this license to dance across a couple of different domains that were all about our environment, and our interplay with our environment.”
Erschienen: 11.02.2022
Dauer: 00:22:33
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If you don't learn to fail, you will fail to learn
Usually, failure is something shameful, or at least it used to be. Nowadays, people rather talk about how crucial failure is for success. In this episode of the ETH podcast, we explore the benefits of failing and what makes stories about failure so interesting. Sascha Stocker, who used to be on the board of the ETH Entrepreneur Club, talks about organising “FuckUp Nights,” and ETH professor Manu Kapur explains how he discovered the power of failure for teaching mathematics.
Erschienen: 04.02.2022
Dauer: 00:19:02
Episode 1
ETH Zurich was not Jeannine's first choice for a place of study, but she made the switch because she was looking for more opportunities to apply her creative side. “At ETH, you learn that it is entirely up to you what you want to make out of your university experience. ETH gives you a lot of freedom in how you can achieve your goals.” This was exactly the foundation she needed, as it gave her the freedom to develop both her skills and personality. "We are not machines. Students are all individuals, and they need the liberty to find which way they want to go," says Jeannine.
Erschienen: 21.01.2022
Dauer: 00:22:25
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The Student Project House
ETH’s Student Project House is a dream come true for young inventors. It's a space where flashes of inspiration can materialise - or not and a place where students can implement their ideas without the pressure of succeeding. The ETH-Podcast talks to the head of the Student Project House, Lucie Rejman, who shows us around and introduces a few tinkerers who use the 3-D printer, laser cutters, as well as people who breed grasshoppers, or young students inventing a straw that should check drinks for drugs.
Erschienen: 07.01.2022
Dauer: 00:13:37
Most famous ETH alumnus Albert Einstein has come to life as an animated figure
The ETH is the Alma Mater to quite a few people who obtained the Nobel Prize. The most prominent one is probably Albert Einstein. He is somewhat as famous as a pop star in and outside of the science community. For the 100. anniversary of the Nobel Prize in Physics, the ETH spin-off Animatico created an animated figure called Digital Einstein. In the ETH podcast, we talk to Patrick Karpiczenko, the author and impersonator of Digital Einstein, and ETH physics professor Marina Krstic Marinkovic about why Albert Einstein is still a role model for not only young scientists.
Erschienen: 03.12.2021
Dauer: 00:14:51
Over 60 years ago, a skiing expedition in Soviet Russia started as an adventure and ended in a tragedy. A group of students never returned from a trip to the Ural mountains in the winter of 1959 and were found dead later. This story is known as the Dyatlov Pass Incident. It has inspired many tales about the deaths of the students, including Soviet military experiments, conspiracy theories, killer Yetis, and extraterrestrials. Alexander Puzrin from ETH Zurich and Johan Gaume from EPFL found a plausible explanation for the accident using computer simulation and analytical models. They made headlines around the world with it earlier this year.
Erschienen: 22.10.2021
Dauer: 00:19:01
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SKINTEGRITY.CH is a transdisciplinary consortium for the largest organ of humans, the skin. What began at lunch between the ETH-Professors Sabine Werner and Edoardo Mazza emerged as a nationwide interdisciplinary consortium of scientists from diverse universities and hospitals. The goal of SKINTEGRITY.CH is to understand and treat skin diseases and abnormalities in wound healing.
Erschienen: 31.08.2021
Dauer: 00:20:16
Independent task force with new leader
Martin Ackermann steps down as head of the Swiss National Covid-19 science task force. Tanja Stadler succeeds him in this responsible position.
Erschienen: 17.08.2021
Dauer: 00:26:57
Didier Queloz is a highly passionate person with a broad sense of humour. Instead of becoming a storyteller, he chose to become an astrophysicist. While working on his PhD., he made a discovery that changed astronomy entirely. Together with his professor Michel Mayor, Didier Queloz received the Physics Nobel Prize for this discovery. In the ETH podcast, he talks about the quandaries of being a young Nobel Laureate. He also talks about his plans at ETH and tells us what he would ask a Martian if he met one.
Erschienen: 19.07.2021
Dauer: 00:25:00
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Two perspectives
While Domenico Giardini, Professor of Seismology and Geodynamics, already has his hands on Mars, Adrian Glauser, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Astronomy, has to be patient. Among many others, Adrian worked on the James-Webb-Telescope that shall finally launch this fall, with a delay of many years. Both researchers talk about their work in the ETH Podcast and contemplate the universe's dimension to time on planet earth.
Erschienen: 21.06.2021
Dauer: 00:22:50
