ETH hires first woman rector: Professor Heidi Wunderli-Allenspach--the first woman to be named director of academic affairs for the Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland--aims to guide the institution into calmer waters after a tumultuous time in which a former president was asked to step down.

Swiss NewsNbr. 2007, April 2007

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ETH hires first woman rector: Professor Heidi Wunderli-Allenspach--the first woman to be named director of academic affairs for the Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland--aims to guide the institution into calmer waters after a tumultuous time in which a former president was asked to step down.

Her office is rather like a great hall overlooking the city of Zurich. A colourful painting over a vast expanse of wall, the conference table and even her desk are all in gigantic proportions. In fact, our voices resonate as if we were in Zurich's main train station.

But the ETH's new rector is not the least put off by this environment. The school is familiar ground. As a young student, she took biology in this very building. Her al...

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