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30.11.2023 UZH Postdoc Team Award

A Smartwatch App to Tackle Long Covid

A treatment for people suffering from Long Covid is yet to materialize. The only approach that has proven to be effective is for patients to manage their symptoms. Researchers at UZH have developed an innovative smartwatch application and app that help patients do this. The researchers have now been awarded this year’s UZH Postdoc Team Award.

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30.11.2023 Plant Biology

Inoculation Against Diseased Fields

A Swiss research team has now shown that inoculating the soil with mycorrhizal fungi can help maintain or even improve yields without the use of additional fertilizers or pesticides. In a large-scale field trial, harvests increased by up to 40 percent.

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29.11.2023

Pitfalls of Computer-Based Psychotherapy

Smartphone apps and internet programs promise quick and easy help for mental health difficulties. Birgit Watzke and her team at the Department of Psychology are investigating these digital tools and identifying their uses and limits.

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28.11.2023 Paleontology

Protection of Highly Threatened Sharks and Rays Inadequate

Research into elasmobranch functional diversity has revealed previously overlooked, critical conservation priorities, underscoring the urgent need for targeted action to safeguard the threatened species.

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28.11.2023 Building Project

Winning Project for “PORTAL UZH” Selected

The planned new building called PORTAL UZH is a key part of the mid- to long-term development of Irchel Campus. The conclusion of the architectural competition marks the first step in making the plans a reality.

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22.11.2023 Research Funding

UZH Researchers Land Grants Worth Over CHF 15 Million

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) is backing 10 projects at the University of Zurich with Starting Grants totaling more than CHF 15 million.

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21.11.2023

Cross-Stitch Technique or Childhood Memory?

Elaborately embroidered textiles from the Negev desert are on display at the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich from the end of November.

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20.11.2023 Zurich Seed Bank

Zurich Seed Bank

Researchers at UZH are freezing the seeds of threatened local plants to help increase the biodiversity of ecosystems in the future.

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16.11.2023 Latin America Center Zurich

High Demand for Latin American Studies

The Latin America Center Zurich has grown since its founding eight years ago to become an established part of the UZH community. Now, building on its thriving program of activities aimed at both academic and lay audiences, the center’s range of classes and courses for UZH students is to be expanded.

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16.11.2023 Media Transformation

Internet Use as Everyday Religion on the Rise, Cyborgization Still in its Early Stages

Artificial intelligence has already arrived, cyborg technologies for self-optimization have not yet. Especially among younger people, internet use is becoming an everyday digital religion. These are results of a representative survey of Swiss internet users conducted by UZH.

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15.11.2023 Sustainability

UZH As Real-World Laboratory

UZH tapped into the collective wisdom of its community to find out how to make everyday university operations more sustainable. It is now supporting several projects to improve sustainability. The various projects are aimed at reducing flight-related greenhouse gas emissions, increasing plastic recycling in labs, curbing electricity consumption in radiology, and managing the vegetation on Irchel Campus.

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15.11.2023 Leadership

What Makes a Good Leader?

Nicole Ochsenbein, UZH professor and director of the Department of Obstetrics at the University Hospital Zurich, is one of the first persons to complete the leadership program for professors at UZH. She sat down with Klaus Jonas, professor emeritus of social and economic psychology and director of the UZH Leadership and Governance Academy, to talk about good leadership and what can trip leaders up.

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09.11.2023 Operating Room X (OR-X)

The Operating Room of the Future

The innovative OR-X at the Balgrist University Hospital is an exact copy of an operating room. Here, surgeons can train their skills and team up with researchers to develop computer-assisted surgical methods. This speeds up the translation of state-of-the-art surgical innovations into clinical practice and benefits patients.

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08.11.2023 Sociology

How Often Intra-European Migrants Send Money Back Home

How often do European migrants in Switzerland transfer money to their home countries, and how much money do they send? People from Portugal tend to send smaller amounts more often, while people from the UK are more likely to send larger amounts but do so less frequently.

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07.11.2023 Microbiology

Predatory Bacteria

Antibiotic resistance is increasingly becoming a challenge for treating bacterial infections. Microbiologist Simona Huwiler is researching whether predatory bacteria — that is, bacteria that eat other bacteria — can be used as a new kind of antibiotic and whether this approach also leads to the development of resistance.

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07.11.2023 Surgical Robots

Robots with a Deft Touch

In future, multisensory surgical robots with sensors featuring visual, auditory and haptic functionality are expected to take on various individual steps during operations – quite autonomously – and support the surgeons providing treatment. Researchers from the University of Zurich are working on this, alongside clinicians, as part of the FAROS project.

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02.11.2023 Tag der Lehre 2023

“Learning from one another”

The motto of this year’s Tag der Lehre was “inspire(d) minds”. Opportunities to get inspired by swapping experiences and sharing views with colleagues from the UZH teaching community were plentiful. The focus of the day was on the role of AI and interdisciplinary approaches in teaching at UZH.

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01.11.2023 Globalization

"We have a lot to lose"

The Corona pandemic and the Ukraine war are the two most recent events that put globalization to the test. In this interview, political scientist Stefanie Walter and economist David Dorn discuss the challenges for global cooperation and its future.

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30.10.2023 Media research

Swiss Public Critical of AI in Journalism

People in Switzerland generally have a critical attitude toward the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the production of news coverage. There is currently little appetite to consume and pay for AI-produced news.

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26.10.2023 ERC Synergy Grant

Three-Million-Euro Grant for Psychiatry

Philipp Homan of UZH and the University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich has been awarded a coveted ERC Synergy Grant shared with three European partners. For the joint project on language disturbances in psychotic disorders, UZH will receive 3 million of the project’s 10 million euro total funding.

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