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EPFL launches of sustainability course for all first-year students

Published:05.03.25 — Whether they study mathematics, microengineering, life sciences or architecture, all 1862 first-year EPFL students experienced their first session of the common sustainability course on Tuesday February 18. The course instructors take on the challenge of teaching a single course to so many students from so many different backgrounds.

Mission on Lake Geneva

Published:03.12.24 — New set-up to optimise deployment conditions for our #SubOcean laser instruments

SENSE at work in Greenland

Published:06.07.24 — Near Narsaq

Belgica medal for Jérôme Chappellaz

Published:10.06.24 — Professor Jérôme Chappellaz has been awarded the Belgica 2023 Medal for polar exploration by the Royal Academy of Belgium.

“Valais is an ideal laboratory to study climate change impacts”

Published:26.01.24 — Exploring the climate crisis with Jérôme Chappellaz, environmental scientist and academic director of ALPOLE at EPFL.

One Planet – Polar Summit

Published:27.11.23 — The Arctic and Antarctic are major strategic areas on which the balance of the planet largely depends.

GreenFjord campaign

Published:12.09.23 — Aboard the Greenlandic oceanographic vessel SANNA

“The polar regions are an utterly fascinating scientific playground”

Published:16.05.23 — Joining EPFL to head the Ferring Pharmaceuticals Margaretha Kamprad Chair in Environmental Sciences, Jérôme Chappellaz brings decades of experience studying the evolution of the earth’s climate and sharing his findings with the public.

SENSE at the Open Days of the EPFL

Published:05.05.23 — Topic of the session: 'Ce que les carottes de glace nous apprennent de l’évolution des gaz à effet de serre'

Some shots of the exciting inaugural lecture

Published:14.03.23 — Jérôme Chappellaz gives a captivating inaugural lecture summarising 35 years of research in 30 minutes.

Students want to invite the ocean on EPFL campus

Published:10.03.23 — To build awareness about the importance of oceans, Sailowtech, a student association, has launched a project to develop low-tech methods for collecting data at sea. The methods will be tested during a sailing expedition around the North Atlantic Ocean. Various EPFL labs are also involved.

Master's project in chemistry/chemical engineering

Published:09.02.23 — We are pleased to announce that we are offering a Master's course in chemistry/chemical engineering together with Professor Kumar Agrawal (EPFL Valais Wallis): 'Characterization and benchmarking of transport properties two-dimensional membranes for dissolved gas extraction in aquatic environments'

Inaugural Lecture – Prof. Jérôme Chappellaz

Published:09.02.23 — Ferring Pharmaceuticals Margaretha Kamprad Chair Lecture:  "From ice to water: an experimental path in deciphering greenhouse gas dynamics"

Merry Christmas

Published:24.12.22 — The small SENSE team wishes you a happy holiday season and all the best for the year 2023. May it be for you a year full of… SENSE!

EPFL plans new research center in Valais on the energy transition

Published:19.12.22 — Ten years after signing the agreement to open its Valais Wallis campus in Sion, today EPFL opened a new building on the campus: Alpole, which will serve as a research center on alpine and polar environments. EPFL also took the opportunity to unveil plans to create another research center in Sion – one focused on the energy transition – and has obtained preliminary approval from the Valais cantonal government.

Appointment of two professors at ENAC

Published:23.09.22 — Professor Martin Ackermann, currently Full Professor at ETH Zurich, is additionally appointed as Full Professor of Microbial Systems Ecology in the ENAC School. Professor Jérôme Chappellaz, currently Director of Research at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France, will join the ENAC School as Full Professor of Environmental Engineering (Environmental Observation under Extreme Conditions), in Sion.