The pioneer of primatological behavioural research, Jane Goodall, will receive an honorary doctorate from the UZH. (Picture Vincent Calmel / Jane Goodall Institute Switzerland)
The pioneer of primatological behavioural research, Jane Goodall, will receive an honorary doctorate from the UZH. (Picture Vincent Calmel / Jane Goodall Institute Switzerland) The University of Zurich is celebrating its 187th anniversary digitally for the first time, awarding honorary doctorates to screenwriter Simone Schmid and film-maker Stefan Haupt, legal expert Heinz Mohnhaupt as well as labor economics specialist Claudia Goldin. Further honorary doctorates have gone to medical scientists Werner Bauer and Marcel Tanner, historian Elisabeth Joris and behavioral scientists Jane Goodall. Physician Giorgio Noseda and Peter F. Weibel, former president of the UZH Foundation's board of trustees, have been appointed honorary senators. For the first time, the Dies academicus celebrations marking the founding of the University of Zurich will not be held in the festive setting of the main lecture hall, but as a virtual event with a series of videos for people to follow from their homes. Appeal by Federal Councilor Guy Parmelin. In his message to the academic community, Federal Councilor Guy Parmelin, head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research, gave an urgent appeal: "We need your research to help us solve the many problems of today, we need your knowledge to help us make well-informed decisions, and we need your ideas to help us develop ground-breaking projects." The Federal Councilor called on researchers to help reshape the future and provide fact-based knowledge and skills - "so that we will be stronger tomorrow than we were yesterday." UZH contributing to tackling the pandemic.
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