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With the Master's ceremony on April 19, 2024, a total of 109 graduates of ETH Zurich's Agricultural Sciences and Food Science study programs celebrated their successful graduation.

Organisms exposed to consistent interactions across generations often coevolve to optimize their coexistence. This occurs between plants and pollinators or hosts and parasites. However, it is not known if plants coexisting over multiple generations in a community evolve to avoid competition and boost individual fitness. A study conducted by Anja Schmutz and Christian Schöb at the Agricultural Ecology group at ETH Zurich tackles this question.  

It's been a few years. But when her father started keeping bees in the family garden in the Poschiavo Valley, she realised that insects were her passion. Francesca Ferrari, Master's student of Agricultural Sciences at ETH Zurich, therefore moved to Grossdietwil in the Canton of Lucerne for her professional internship. There, Andermatt Biocontrol Suisse sells, develops and researches products for sustainable plant protection.  

Ryan Jenkins originally wanted to go to South America for his professional internship on his Master's degree in Agricultural Sciences. But then he decided to accompany his fellow student Camille Sammali on a project in Guinea, West Africa. There he learnt a lot about agroecology, but even more about communicating with people from a different culture.

Samuel Levy and Lorenz Allemann have won this year's SFIAR Award. Both researchers focussed their award-winning research work on the Amazon region. Congratulations!  

Philippe Mathys has long been interested in research. The 28-year-old student of Agricultural Sciences opted for Agroscope in Tänikon in the Canton of Thurgau for his professional internship and took away important lessons about practice, politics and research.

Every year, ETH Zurich awards the ESOP scholarship to excellent students from different backgrounds. This year, two students, Nina Bili Rossi and Abheepsa Nanda decided to use their scholarships to pursue a Master’s degree programme at the Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS). This week, we are presenting Nina, who came to ETH to study agricultural economics.

"Open your eyes 2023": Until 15 October 2023, the heart of Zurich will transform into a unique open-​air photo exhibition focusing on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ETH Zurich is the scientific partner of open your eyes 2023. Discover the contributions of our researchers to each Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) in detail.

The Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ) awarded its Honary Medal 2022 to Nina Buchmann, Professor of Grassland Sciences at ETH Zurich. Congratulations!

A collaboration between the Animal Genomics group at ETH Zurich and the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (USDA-ARS) investigated which methods of sequencing and assembling produce high-quality bovine genomes, how pangenomes robustly combine such assemblies, and how these new resources reveal hitherto inaccessible trait-associated DNA variants.

The agora project Publifarm aims to strenghten the link between agriculture, public and science. On September 23, the kick-off event took place at the FHNW in Brugg.