Equality News

© Murielle Gerber / 2021 EPFL

How can we make our housing less heteronormative?

Education

An EPFL architecture student’s radical new approach to the layout of typical city-center buildings in Lausanne, and how we inhabit the spaces we live in, may just revolutionize our ways of thinking.

Sarah Gilbert, surrounded by Professors Aleksandra Radenovic and Luisa Lambertini, from the EPFL-WISH Foundation. ©Alain Herzog/EPFL

Sarah Gilbert wins the 2021 Erna Hamburger Prize

Research

The EPFL WISH Foundation will present the 2021 Erna Hamburger Award to Prof. Dame Sarah Gilbert, a British vaccinologist and expert in vaccines against influenza and emerging viral pathogens, at a ceremony on October 18.

EPFL has adopted a series of prevention, support and follow-up measures against harassment.© Alain Herzog/EPFL

EPFL is acting on harassment

EPFL

EPFL has adopted a series of prevention, support and follow-up measures that were recommended by the School’s Harassment Task Force. In a recent survey of the EPFL community, 80% of respondents indicated that they were satisfied with the overall climate on campus but that improvements were needed in terms of safety, equality and efforts to fight discrimination.

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