Archive Events 2016

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• 08.12.2016 Digital Health

  Medicine at a Turning Point

  The digital transformation of healthcare is creating major opportunities to better understand disease and effective therapies. But it also poses ethical and legal challenges. A conference organized by the Health Ethics and Policy Lab at UZH addressed some of the current issues.

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• 06.12.2016 Dual Career Couples

  Coming to Zurich as a Couple

  When researchers abroad decide to move to Zurich, their partner often comes with them to Switzerland. UZH has an effective framework in place to help them find a job, including recent membership of the International Dual Career Network (IDCN).

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• 22.11.2016 2. Swiss-Kyoto-Symposium

  Research with Japan

  UZH fosters close cooperation with Kyoto University. The topics featured at the second joint symposium at the beginning of November included digital law and Japanese art.

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• 20.09.2016 Switzerland and Europe

  "let’s do it"

  The festivities marking Winston Churchill’s famous Zurich speech provided a platform for a politically charged meeting between Swiss Federal President Johann Schneider-Ammann and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. With expectations running high, the main hall at UZH was filled to capacity to hear the two presidents’ addresses – in which they talked about the future of Europe and Switzerland’s involvement in the EU’s Horizon 2020 Framework Program for Research and Innovation.

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• 20.09.2016 Churchill Colloquium

  churchills-big-picture

  On 19 September 1946, Winston Churchill gave his globally acclaimed speech at the University of Zurich. To mark the 70-year anniversary of the event, academics, publicists, and politicians gathered in the main UZH lecture hall on Monday to discuss the significance of his address.

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• 15.09.2016 UZH Digital Society Initiative

  «This child is going to make us very proud.»

  Prominent figures from business and politics gathered in the main lecture hall to kick off the UZH Digital Society Initiative. It’s designed as a vehicle to enable the University to take a leading role in digital transformation.

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• 24.08.2016 Continuing Education

  Swiss-Chinese Academic Axis

  UZH and New Huadu Business School in China are offering a joint continuing education program for students from Europe and China. Last week the MAS was officially launched at the University of Zurich.

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• 23.05.2016 Zürich meets London: Day 3

  Festival Finishes with a Feast

  UZH’s last day at Zürich meets London revolved around business and the law. The program included a podium discussion on financial market regulation. The day finished with a dinner for UZH alumni in London.

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• 19.05.2016 Zürich meets London: Day 2

  Meetings of Minds

  Yesterday the main themes of the Zürich meets London festival were financial services and neuroscience. Here’s our report on the day’s events, including statements from UZH President Michael Hengartner and Mayor Corine Mauch.

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• 18.05.2016 Zürich meets London: Day 1

  From Russell Square to Oxford Circus

  The Zürich meets London festival is in full swing. It kicked off yesterday, Tuesday. Scientists from the University of Zurich and their cooperation partners at London universities met up to report on their work in trauma research and tissue engineering. Here’s an account of Day 1.

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• 14.03.2016 Data Analysis

  Cool Calculation

  Marcin Chrząszcz, a physicist who does research into exotic elementary particles at CERN, organized a competition for data scientists. The best solutions were recently presented at the UZH Department of Physics.

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• 26.02.2016 New Publication Platform

  Galileo Would Have Loved It!

  It often takes years before individual discoveries are published. A new publication platform called Matters, developed at UZH, enables researchers to publish interim findings more quickly than used to be possible. The new platform was presented yesterday.

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• 21.01.2016 Joseph Stiglitz at UZH

  “We’ve only got this one planet”

  People flocked to UZH to hear Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz talk about climate change and the implications for the global economy, filling the main lecture hall and various other lecture theaters where his talk was broadcast.

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