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• 16.12.2020 Digitalization Initiative of the Zurich Higher Education Institutions

  DIZH Picking Up Steam

  In the next 10 years, the joint digitalization initiative by Zurich’s higher education institutions aims to explore the effects and opportunities of digitalization and develop innovative technologies. The initiative is now gradually taking shape, and the first round of calls for research and innovation projects has been launched.

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• 08.09.2020 UZH Start-Up

  Teaching More Efficiently

  A University of Zurich start-up has developed an innovative learning and assessment platform for teachers. Thanks to the platform’s cutting-edge technology, teaching staff can individualize and mark exams through an automated process.

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• 13.08.2020 UZH-Spin-off

  Precision Predictions for Hydropower Plants

  The UZH spin-off ExoLabs has developed a model that can predict snowmelt and help hydropower operators generate energy more efficiently. The innovative business idea has now won the funding and support of the European Union.

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• 15.04.2020

  AI accelerates blood flow MRI

  Imaging technology helps to detect cardiovascular diseases much earlier; however, precise examinations are still very time-consuming. Researchers from ETH and the University of Zurich have now presented a method that could greatly accelerate dynamic magnetic resonance imaging of blood flow.

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• 08.04.2020 Astrophysics

  Scientists achieve simultaneous simulation of gravitation and magnetism of a protoplanetary disk

  Researchers from the Universities of Zurich and Cambridge have succeeded for the first time in creating a single computer-simulated model that combines processes in the development of planets that were previously simulated separately. In their novel simulations on the Piz Daint supercomputer, they identified a new kind of friction mechanism that could solve a ubiquitous problem in astrophysics.

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• 10.03.2020 Mercator Awards

  Citizen Science, Humanitarian Aid in Uganda, Customs and Norms

  Their innovative and original research projects won over the jury: This year’s Mercator Awards go to Simon Etter and Barbara Strobl at the Department of Geography, the ethnologist Maria-Theres Schuler, and lawyer Oliver William.

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• 06.02.2020 Phonetics

  The Voice Catcher

  Our voices are as individual as our appearance. Phonetician Volker Dellwo knows how to decode their special characteristics. He is also developing cloned voices.

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• 02.02.2020 Innovation

  Creating an Entrepreneurial Culture

  UZH already has a strong reputation for driving innovation. Entrepreneurship and innovation are now to be given even more of a boost to make students and junior researchers more aware of career paths outside the traditional routes, explains Michael Schaepman, Vice President Research.

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• 21.01.2020 Digitalization Initiative

  “Vote of confidence in Zurich as a research hub”

  The Parliament of the Canton of Zurich yesterday unanimously resolved to provide 108 million francs of funding for the DIZH, the ground-breaking joint initiative by Zurich’s higher education institutions.

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• 15.01.2020 20 years of Unitectra

  “We can’t be everybody’s darling”

  Technology transfer office Unitectra recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. In the interview below, Managing Director Adrian Sigrist explains what has changed and why the organization has thrived.

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• 09.01.2020 Medicine

  Fixing Hearts, Saving Lives

  Artificial heart valves save many lives. But the problem is that a prosthesis is never as robust as the real thing. This is why UZH Professor Maximilian Emmert wants to get the human body to rebuild the damaged valves itself.

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• 08.01.2020 In the Spotlight

  Political Whiz Kid

  Political scientist Fabrizio Gilardi and his colleagues established the Digital Democracy Lab.

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