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Health - 15.04.2020
UZH Launches Funding Campaign for Covid-19 Research
Computer Science - 06.04.2020
Lack of Knowledge and Uncertainty about Algorithms in Online Services
Although Swiss internet users use online services where algorithms select search results, recommendations and information daily, they know little about their role and function.
Health - 30.03.2020
New UZH Coronavirus Test Center Relieves Strain on Family Doctors
The University of Zurich has repurposed its Travel Clinic as a COVID-19 test center. Designed to complement the tests currently offered by family doctors in Canton Zurich, it is geared to other people who work in healthcare services.
Pedagogy - 13.03.2020
UZH Switches to Digital Teaching
Life Sciences - Event - 09.03.2020
Life-Giving Potion and Maternal Elixir
Milk provides sustenance and protection and is the basis of life for all mammals just after they are born.
Life Sciences - Astronomy / Space - 07.03.2020
Producing Human Tissue in Space
The University of Zurich has sent adult human stem cells to the International Space Station (ISS). Researchers from UZH Space Hub will explore the production of human tissue in weightlessness. On 6 March at 11:50 p.m. EST, the International Space Station resupply mission Space X CRS-20 took off from Cape Canaveral (USA).
Social Sciences - 11.02.2020
Public Lectures on Philosophy, Populism, Violence and Equal Opportunities in Education
Social Sciences - 29.01.2020
Openly Acknowledging Social Inequalities
Members of disadvantaged social groups who engage in contact with members of privileged groups are less likely to support social change toward equality, a multinational study by social psychologists at the University of Zurich shows. To reduce this effect, it is important to actively address and acknowledge inequalities in intergroup contacts.
Health - Life Sciences - 10.12.2019
Nearly 12 Million Euros for Outstanding UZH Research
Event - History / Archeology - 21.11.2019
Chinese Porcelain Art in Pale Green-Blue Shades
Environment - Economics - 05.11.2019
Private Banks Should Proactively Foster Sustainable Investments
Sustainable investments are on the rise, but does impact follow? The new UZH report on sustainable investing capabilities urges private banks to gear up their services to meet investor demands ' and environmental targets.
Politics - 24.10.2019
Suspicions of Internet Monitoring Lead to Self-Censorship
More than half of internet users in Switzerland avoid searching for certain terms or expressing certain views online because they believe they are being monitored.
Life Sciences - 09.10.2019
Details of Dental Wear Revealed
The teeth of mammals experience constant wear. However, the details of these wear processes are largely unknown. Researchers at the University of Zurich have now demonstrated that the various areas of herbivores' teeth differ in how susceptible they are to dental wear, detailing an exact chronology.
Social Sciences - 11.09.2019
Growing Interest in Natural Sciences, Law and Economics
Next Monday, the Fall Semester begins for about 27,000 students at the University of Zurich. The number of Master's students in particular has increased.
Health - 05.09.2019
Vontobel Award: Systematic Remembering and Similar Surgical Consequences
This year's Vontobel Award for Research on Age(ing) goes to Burcu Demiray Batur from the University of Zurich, Jonathan Rychen from the University Hospital of Basel and Sarah Stricker from the Hôpital Necker in Paris.
Pedagogy - 29.08.2019
Magic Spells and Desert Sharks
Environment - 16.07.2019
Diving into Colorful Underwater Worlds
Life Sciences - 03.06.2019
Fathers Aid Development of Larger Brains
The bigger the brain, the more intelligent a mammalian species is. Developing a large brain, though, requires a huge energy input.
Event - Health - 27.04.2019
University of Zurich Awards Six New Honorary Doctorates
Environment - 24.04.2019
Schadenfreude: Your Pain Is My Gain
If someone in the workplace is mistreated, their colleagues may respond with empathy - or with schadenfreude.
Pharmacology - Health - 15.04.2019
Innovative Medicines Initiative Launches Translational Safety Biomarker Pipeline Project
The University of Zurich coordinates a worldwide research project that focuses on the development of new biomarkers.
Life Sciences - 10.04.2019
Showy Primates Have Smaller Testicles
Well-adorned or well-endowed ' but not both. Evolutionary biologists at the University of Zurich have for the first time demonstrated that male primates either have large testicles or showy ornaments. Developing both at the same time may simply take too much energy. Male primates are highly competitive, especially about one thing: fathering offspring.
Physics - Mathematics - 03.04.2019
ERC Grants for Research at UZH
Three researchers at the University of Zurich have received an ERC Advanced Grant. A physicist, a mathematician and a theologian will each receive up to 2.5 million euros from the European Research Council to continue their research.
Environment - Administration - 03.04.2019
Towards a Sustainable and Transparent Future
Earth Sciences - 28.03.2019
Of Scythes, Scythe Hammers and Work Songs
The agricultural technics of wild hay making in Switzerland and shifting cultivation in the eastern Himalayas have one thing in common: They are both performed on steep slopes.
Computer Science - History / Archeology - 12.02.2019
Public Lectures about Gottfried Keller or Smart Robots
Life Sciences - 11.02.2019
NOMIS Award for Adriano Aguzzi
Life Sciences - 21.01.2019
Octopus’s Garden: The Stunning Life of Macroalgae
The Botanical Garden of the University of Zurich is displaying large-format pictures of macroalgae taken by photographer Josh Westrich, bringing these maritime organisms into the tropical setting of UZH's greenhouses.
Health - Life Sciences - 15.01.2019
Researcher Wins Prestigious Biochemistry Award
Pedagogy - Event - 10.01.2019
15 Years of the Children’s University of Zurich
Event - Economics - 09.01.2019
A Forum for UZH and the City
Life Sciences - 09.01.2019
Change of Teeth Causes Yo-Yo Effect in Elephants’ Weight
The weight of elephants living in zoos fluctuates over the course of their adult lives in cycles lasting around a hundred months, researchers at the University of Zurich have found. The fluctuation is linked to the particular pattern of tooth change in elephants, which results in them having more or less chewing surface available.
Environment - Life Sciences - 10.12.2018
The Fascinating World of Insects
Highlighting diversity, arousing fascination and raising awareness of the vital tasks that insects perform in nature.
Health - Life Sciences - 06.12.2018
Michael Hall wins Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Prize for Cancer Research 2019
Environment - Economics - 29.10.2018
A New Alliance for Sustainability in Finance: California and Switzerland Team Up to Tackle a Key Factor in Implementing Sustainable Practices
A New Alliance for Sustainability in Finance: California and Switzerland Team Up to Tackle a Key Factor in Implementing Sustainable Practices While sustainable policies at many levels have started to
Economics - 11.10.2018
UZH Professor Elected New Chair of OECD Working Party on Responsible Business Conduct
Economics - 04.10.2018
Even Small Gifts Boost Business
The offering of a gift - a sign of gratitude for a good business relationship, or a bribe? It's a fine line that is often hard to judge.
Environment - Economics - 19.09.2018
Banks Do too Little to Communicate Their Sustainable Investment Products
Less than one percent of the global population controls more than 50 percent of wealth. All over the world these wealthy investors have an increasing interest in investing their wealth sustainably, in accordance with socially responsible, environmentally friendly and ethical principles.
Health - 29.08.2018
Dreaming of Flying
Event - Health - 24.08.2018
The University of Zurich at the Kunsthalle
Career - Computer Science - 09.08.2018
Four Million Euros Awarded to Three UZH Researchers
Three scientists of the University of Zurich have been awarded the EU's coveted ERC Starting Grants.
Mathematics - 24.07.2018
Fields Medal Winner Artur Avila Appointed Full Professor at UZH
Environment - Earth Sciences - 09.07.2018
Charcoal: Major Missing Piece in the Global Carbon Cycle
Due to its widespread occurrence and tendency to linger in the environment, black carbon may be one of the keys in predicting and mitigating global climate change. In wildfires, typically one third of the burned organic carbon is retained as black carbon residues rather than emitted as greenhouse gases.
Social Sciences - Earth Sciences - 28.06.2018
From Wooden Combs to the Lives of the Saamaka Marron in Suriname
Video preview of the exhibition "Encountering - Retracing - Mapping. The Expedition Collections of Heinrich Harrer".
Astronomy / Space - 13.06.2018
First UZH Space Hub Research Flight Campaign
This year the newly opened Innovation Park Zurich repurposed old hangars on the military airfield in Dübendorf into office space, creating a novel combination of airfield and laboratory. This site is now where the UZH Space Hub carries out joint research projects of the University of Zurich and its partners from air and space travel.
Innovation - Health - 30.05.2018
UZH Start-Up Funding for Young Innovators
Social Sciences - 28.05.2018
Out in the Cold or One of the Gang: Initial Contacts Set the Scene
Ostracism or social exclusion within a group serves to discipline disagreeable, awkward, or freeloading members and thus promote cooperation - at least this was the assumption of previous research in this field.
History / Archeology - Event - 17.05.2018
The Reformation and the Bolt from Above
On 7 May 1572, the heavens opened over Zurich - after years of extreme weather conditions and crop failures - and a bolt of lightning struck the Grossmünster church, the epicenter of the Zurich Reformation movement.
Pharmacology - Life Sciences - 16.05.2018
Cellular Valve Structure Opens Up Potential Novel Therapies
Human cells are enclosed by membranes and are in osmotic equilibrium with their environment. If the concentration of solute molecules (osmolarity) in the fluid surrounding the cells decreases, cells start to swell; in extreme cases, this can result in the cells bursting.
Event - Health - 28.04.2018
UZH Awards Eight Honorary Doctorates
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