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From the International Women’s Day in March 2019 to March 2020, the Office of Equal Opportunities at ETH Zurich “Equal!” is portraying 12 female assistant professors. They work in different fields of research, come from different countries and have different personalities. With their diversity, they enrich ETH Zurich.

Innovation also means not just treading on well-prepared paths. At ETH Zurich, students from all over the world can apply by 15 December 2019 – and European and Swiss students by 31 March 2020 – for what is probably the world's first Master of Science in Quantum Engineering. The Departments of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering and Physics work closely together for this Master's course, which starts in autumn 2020 for the second time.

The observation of a gamma-ray burst by the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescopes — an international collaboration in which ETH physicists have a leading role — reveals the highest-energy photons released by such violent explosions reported to date.  

Every year, the Association of Students at ETH Zurich (VSETH) honours on ETH Day lecturers who have provided exceptional teaching with the "Golden Owl". For courses in the Departments of Physics, the award goes this year to Sascha Quanz.

On this year's ETH Day, Evelyn Hu, Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University, has been awared a honorary doctorate of ETH Zurich, at the request of the Department of Physics.