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News

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Our new info brochure is here!

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The updated info brochure for 2025/2026 is available online and in print, in German and English, at the Infodesk.

The book exchange cart is back!

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Our book exchange cart will be available again from October 1 to October 15, 2025. Take the opportunity to get your media collection in order and bring your discarded items to ETH Zurich for exchange.

Between Truth & Deception – Our Book Recommendations

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Fake news, forgeries, manipulation – with the advent of generative algorithms, the topic is coming more into the spotlight. Yet humanity’s struggle with truth and deceit is anything but new. What stories, what ideas, what strategies lie behind it all?

Events

Overview

Using scientific literature: An introduction for new pharmaceutical sciences students

Type of Event: Introduction
Language: German
Time: 13:45–15:30
Place: HCI J7

General overview of the databases and information solutions available at the ETH Zurich and the services of the Information Center.

Alex Bollen presents her book Motherdom

Type of Event: Lecture
Language: English
Time: 18:30–21:00
Place: HCI J6

An evening with Alex Bollen, author of “Motherdom: Breaking free From Bad Science and Good Mother Myths”

Suche nach organischen Verbindungen

Type of Event: Course
Language: German
Time: 13:00–15:15
Place: HCI G3 ,HCI J4

Datenbankrecherchen im Rahmen des Praktikums Organische Chemie für Biologen/Pharm. Wiss. (OCP1). Die erste halbe Stunde findet im G3 statt, der Rest im J4.

Using scientific literature: An introduction for new biology students

Type of Event: Introduction
Language: German
Time: 13:45–15:30
Place: HCI J6

General overview of the databases and information solutions available at the ETH Zurich and the services of the Information Center

Course Information Retrieval & Management in Life Sciences and Chemistry

Type of Event: Course
Language: English
Time: 15:45–17:15
Place: HIL E6

2. The world of scientific publishing & communication (2): New and recent developments – Outlook

PyMOL: CompiCampus Course Fall 2025

Type of Event: Workshop
Language: English
Time: 13:11–20:30
Place: HCI, Seminar Room G2

The Chemistry | Biology | Pharmacy Information Center is offering a training course for PyMOL, a 3D molecular visualization and analysis software that can produce high-quality renderings of biological macromolecules, such as proteins, DNA, or RNA, as well as small molecules.