Alumni News

On August 1st, alumni from ETH Zurich, Uni Zurich, and EPFL gathered to celebrate Swiss National Day in the beautiful setting of the Charles River Esplanade. This event brought together the vibrant Boston-based alumni community for an evening of connection and camaraderie.

The ETH Alumni New England Chapter (ETH Alumni NEC) had the opportunity to reconnect with delegates from the ETH during the 2019 ETH Meets Boston event held in the newly developed Vibrant Seaport district of Boston. About 80 people from the greater Boston scientific and business community, including 15 ETH Alumni, gathered to hear academic talks about the latest thinking on the topic: RETHINK Drug Discovery.

On October 24, 2018, the ETH Alumni New England Chapter and Swissnex Boston co-hosted an evening celebrating the 2018 edition of InCube at MIT.

Fourteen students from ETH Zurich and the University of Lausanne participated in the 10th annual Commitment to Action Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) which took place October 13-15 2017 at Northeastern University in Boston, MA.

The Alumni Chapter New England decided to celebrate the Advent holiday with a visit to swissbäkers in Boston. Swissbäkers is a renowned bakery in the Boston area founded by Thomas Stohr, who taught the Alumni about baking Grittibänze.

ETH Alumnus Dean Glettig got a chance that many ETH students are dreaming of: He is doing his Postdoc at the Langer Lab in Boston, the biggest lab in biomedical engineering. His background from the ETH still has a strong influence on his approach to research and his aspiration to understand fundamental mechanism. In the following interview we talk with Dean about his time in the US, what he would recommend other Swiss students who would like to study in the US and about his plans for the future.