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12.06.2025 UZH Accessible

Equal Access to University Life

The University of Zurich aims to eliminate barriers faced by people with disabilities, from organizational matters to everyday life at the university. An extensive internal consultation process has generated 18 measures to help achieve this goal.

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12.06.2025 Research Integrity

Regulating Authorship Fairly and Transparently

UZH is introducing guidelines for authorship in scientific publications, thereby strengthening the standards of good academic practice.

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11.06.2025 UZH Accessible

“A more efficient process for disability accommodations benefits everyone”

Ulla Blume, the new head of the Disability Office, is moving forward with a project that aims to standardize and streamline the application process for reasonable accommodations.

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05.06.2025 Precision Medicine

43,000 Data Points against Melanoma

Every tumor is unique. In a new study, scientists from Zurich and Basel used advanced technologies to create individual profiles for precise tumor treatment.

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05.06.2025 Plant sciences

Fungal Resistance in Wheat: Preserving Biodiversity for Food Security

Wheat production is threatened by a major fungal disease: yellow rust. UZH researchers have found traditional wheat varieties from Asia that harbor several resistance-conferring genes.

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04.06.2025 Medical Microbiology

Study Traces Transmission Routes in Largest Diphtheria Outbreak in Western Europe in 70 Years

Data from the outbreak indicate transmission routes along established migration pathways into Europe. Although rapid interventions successfully contained the outbreak, these strains continue to cause new infections.

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04.06.2025 Pride Month

LGBTQIA+ Network at UZH Still Growing

For a little over a year now, LGBTQIA+ staff at UZH have been able to connect and build relationships through an in-house network.

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02.06.2025 Museum Collaboration

Korean Art is Making Waves

As a major exhibition at Museum Rietberg showcases the global success of contemporary Korean culture, a corresponding colloquium at UZH highlights centuries of cultural exchange.

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28.05.2025 Microbiome and cell aging

Intestinal Bacteria Influence Aging of Blood Vessels

Researchers have shown for the first time that intestinal bacteria and their metabolites contribute directly to vascular aging.

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27.05.2025 Peer Effects

Your Best Friend’s Personality Can Shape Your Own

Students become more conscientious, open, and competitive when they spend time with friends who also exhibit these traits, according to the first study on how students’ personalities are shaped by their peers.

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22.05.2025 Academic Collaboration

With a Little Help from Friends Across the Globe

Universitas 21 fosters collaboration between universities. In a time of mounting pressures on academic freedom, peer-to-peer exchange is crucial.

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22.05.2025 Götz Prize 2025

Götz Prize 2025

Jana Ellegast from the Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology and Jiang-An Yin from the Institute of Neuropathology at the University Hospital Zurich have been awarded this year’s Georg Friedrich Götz Prize.

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21.05.2025 Cell biology

Live View: Stress-Induced Changes in Generations of Cancer Cells

Drugs that affect DNA replication, or radiation that causes direct DNA damage, lead to increasingly diverse offspring over multiple cell generations. This increases the tumor’s genetic complexity and facilitates the development of resistance to therapy.

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21.05.2025 Dies academicus

Advocating Bold Research in Turbulent Times

UZH celebrated its 192nd birthday and presented 26 honors at this year’s Dies academicus. Councilor of States Tiana Angelina Moser delivered the keynote address and spoke about the relationship between science and politics.

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21.05.2025 Una Europa

Study in Europe, Stay in Zurich

Thanks to the Una Europa alliance, UZH students can now easily add individual modules from other universities to their studies.

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20.05.2025 International Year of Quantum Science

“We’re in the second quantum revolution”

Erwin Schrödinger laid the foundation for quantum mechanics at UZH 100 years ago. We met with UZH physicist Titus Neupert to discuss quantum computers, new sensors and the stability of tables.

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19.05.2025 Teaching Award

“I want to rouse enthusiasm”

Biodiversity expert Florian Altermatt is the recipient of this year’s UZH Teaching Award. In the portrait below, he tells why he makes students count birds on Lake Zurich and divulges what that has to do with Pokémon.

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16.05.2025 Dies academicus 2025

UZH Awards Eight Honorary Doctorates

The University of Zurich has awarded honorary doctorates to historian Amy Nelson Burnett, legal philosopher Elisabeth Holzleithner, academic economist Laura Starks, linguist Elisabeth Gülich, conservationist Paula Kahumbu, theologian Herman Johan Selderhuis, banking expert Christian Rahn and horse trainer Fredy Knie Jr.

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15.05.2025 Natural History Museum

How Plants Communicate with Each Other

A new exhibition on plant communication marks the inclusion of botany at the University of Zurich’s Natural History Museum.

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15.05.2025 Agroecology

Dual Associations with Two Fungi Improve Tree Fitness

Tree species that form symbioses with two different types of mycorrhizal fungi cope better with water and nutrient scarcity.

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