ETH students Ricarda Nebling and Pius Theiler from Prof. Christofer Hierold’s group and a student* from EPFL won first prize with their project µWINDfon at the iCAN, an international student contest for innovative ideas held between 6 - 8 July 2016 in Paris. µWINDfon is an innovative anemometer for evaluating smaller windpower sites that is significantly cheaper and easier to handle than existing systems. *Name deleted on request (May 2019)

The Board of Trustees of the Collegium Helveticum has elected Prof. Petros Koumoutsakos as a Fellow of the Collegium Helveticum for a period of 4 years as per 1 October 2016. 

Prof. Dimos Poulikakos' team made the cover page of the "ACS Nano" Journal, Volume 10, Issue 7, 26 July 2016.

Simon Ackermann, from Prof. Steinfeld's group, is the recipient of the 2016 ASME Solar Energy Graduate Student Award  for his Doctoral Thesis: “Redox Kinetics and Transport Phenomena of Reticulated Porous Ceria”. He was presented with the award plaque, along with a $1000 check, at the banquet of the ASME Power & Energy Conference, June 28, in Charlotte, USA.