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The author reflects on the proposed effective life cycle inventory method offered by consulting firm ESU-Services Ltd. in Switzerland. He asserts that the approach would give environmental management consultancies and training courses based on life cycle assessment (LCA) to the postgraduate students at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETHZ). He further emphasizes some important factors affect the method such as cutoff rules, market mix models and carbon offset.

The article reports on the resignation of molecular biologist Ernst Hafen, college president of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. He had submitted his resignation letter in November 1, 2006, the day before the planned faculty vote of confidence he was sure to lose. The faculty members were united forcing Hafen to resign. It was because of Hafen's style of leadership. He mandated to reform the ETH by its supervisory council that has angered the faculty.

The article highlights a research that examined the process of how a non-pathogenic prion protein becomes the agent of Cruetzfeld-Jakob disease. Methodology-wise, the research team which is led by Peter Seeberger of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, started with a sugar molecule containing five subunits and a lipid chain of 19 carbon atoms. After adding the amino acid cysteine, the researchers developed an anchor made of sugar and lipid which the prion attached to a cell membrane.

The article focuses on the type of management implemented by molecular biologist and college president Ernst Hafen at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. Decision-making are usually shared by deans in most Swiss universities but not in ETH. Hafen, however, wanted to introduce a more corporate management model at the university. Because of such strategy, many faculty were against him that resulted to a public dispute requesting for his resignation.