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Data centers need to consider their carbon footprint

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Digital technology is running up against its physical limits. One solution is to build more data centers – but that needs to go hand in hand with a reduction in their carbon footprint.

Elections and cyberspace: are democracies in danger?

16.10.20NewsEPFL

EPFL Professor compares digital disinformation to the issue of climate change, asking whether we are past the point of no return to fix the problem.

Altering the properties of 2D materials at the nanometer scale

15.10.20NewsEPFL

EPFL scientists have developed a method for changing the physical properties of 2D materials permanently using a nanometric tip. Their approach, which involves deforming the materials, paves the way to using these materials in electronic and optoelectronic devices.

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Sauradeep Majumdar during the FameLab semifinals in Lausanne

Sauradeep Majumdar, winner of FameLab Switzerland 2020

19.10.20EPFL

Sauradeep Majumdar from EPFL won FameLab 2020 Switzerland, a competition held between 10 finalists from EPFL, ETH Zurich, and the Universities of Lausanne, Basel and Zurich. He will next represent Switzerland in the International Final. Sauradeep is a PhD Student in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (EDCH).

Frédéric Kaplan named director of Digital Humanities Institute

13.10.20EPFL

College of Humanities (CDH) professor Frédéric Kaplan, head of the Laboratory for Digital Humanities (DHLab), has been named director of the CDH’s Digital Humanities Institute (DHI) as of October 1st, 2020.

Lecturer at the School of Life Sciences, Sylvain Roy is also a practicing ophtalmologist. © Alain Herzog 2020 EPFL

A PolySphère Award for the best adapted course during lockdown

07.10.20EPFL

This year, EPFL students gave out a new PolySphère Award for the best adaptation of a course to online format. The winner, Sylvain Roy, a bioengineer and physician, was also the recipient of a PolySphère Award from the School of Life Sciences.

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