Archive Awards 2017

Article list Awards

• 23.11.2017 Gender Equality

  Honoring a Pioneer

  Nadezhda Suslova was the first woman to be awarded a doctorate by the University of Zurich, 150 years ago. An anniversary event was held at UZH this week to honor this remarkable woman. The occasion also saw the presentation of the Marie Heim-Vögtlin Prize to UZH researcher Mathilde Bouvel.

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• 23.11.2017 Social Entrepreneurship

  Concrete Solutions for Real Problems

  For the first time, the University of Zurich offered a seminar in which students could acquire first-hand knowledge of what it means to become a Social Entrepreneur and develop a business plan to solve a concrete social problem. In their final pitch last Monday, six teams competed in front of a jury for an award of CHF 10,000 to kick-start their business.

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• 14.11.2017 Marie Heim-Vögtlin-Preis 2017

  All in the Head

  Mathematician Mathilde Bouvel is a brilliant mathematician and analyst... and as a mother of two small children, she also knows how to keep a clear head. Now the researcher at the UZH Institute of Mathematics has been awarded the Marie Heim-Vögtlin Prize 2017.

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• 19.09.2017 Ig Nobel Prize

  Prestigious Award for Curious Research

  Researchers led by UZH professor Milo Puhan discovered that playing the didgeridoo helps stop snoring. Now they’ve been awarded the prestigious Ig Nobel Prize.

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• 14.07.2017 Graduate Campus

  Friendly Wake-up Calls and Fine Tomatoes

  Gold rush fever in citizen science: yesterday participants at the LERU Doctoral Summer School 2017, organized by UZH’s Graduate Campus, presented a whole variety of ideas for future participatory research projects.

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• 13.04.2017 Mercator Awards 2017

  Mercator Awards 2017

  Irene Garonna, Timo Mennle and Stefan Leins have all won 2017 Mercator Awards for their PhD theses – on shifting seasons, markets without money, and financial analysts.

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