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13.03.2025 URPP Digital Religion(s)

Artificial Intelligence: Between Demons and God

An avatar priest, praying via app and artificial intelligence as a deity: UZH anthropologist Beth Singler researches the interplay between AI and religion.

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12.03.2025 Autoimmune diseases

Promising Active Ingredient for Lupus Therapy

In lupus, the immune system attacks its own structures, causing inflammation and organ damage. A UZH study shows: The natural active ingredient gluconolactone regulates the immune system and could offer a gentler therapy.

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11.03.2025 Birth rate

Swiss Women Had More Children at Start of Coronavirus Pandemic

Researchers at UZH have studied the impact of pandemics on the birth rate in Switzerland for the first time. While the number of births unexpectedly rose initially during COVID-19, it fell significantly during previous pandemics in history.

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11.03.2025 Growing up

Equipping Children for Life

Parents only have a limited influence on their children’s development. In order to thrive, children above all need to feel safe and secure. Much of the rest happens on its own.

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05.03.2025 Innovation

New Spin-Offs with Innovative Technology

Detecting prostate cancer at an early stage, keeping transplantation organs viable for longer, or a lab that fits on a chip: these six spin-offs from UZH are bringing research ideas to the market.

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04.03.2025 Personality in an Intercultural Context

African Young Adults Balance Self-Determination and Communalism

A new study from the University of Zurich shows that the cultural influence on the transition to adulthood in sub-Saharan Africa is more communal and less self-centered than in Western contexts.

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04.03.2025 Campus Life

A lively place for debate

The University of Zurich thrives thanks to its vibrant network and shared understanding. This series spotlights UZH members dedicated to fostering exchange. In the second part of the series, we visit our campuses on Irchel and in Schlieren.

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03.03.2025 Psychiatric research

ChatGPT on the couch: relaxation for stressed AI

Distressing news and traumatic stories can cause stress and anxiety – not only in humans, but also in AI language models, such as ChatGPT. Researchers have now shown that these models, like humans, respond to therapy: an elevated “anxiety level” in GPT-4 can be “calmed down” using mindfulness-based relaxation techniques.

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03.03.2025 Award

Japanese order awarded to Christian Schwarzenegger

UZH Vice President Christian Schwarzenegger has been awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the Japanese government.

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28.02.2025 International Relations

“A powerful voice in Europe”

UZH President Michael Schaepman has been elected as a new member of the board of directors of the League of European Research Universities (LERU). In the interview below, he explains what objectives UZH is pursuing within this network of leading European universities.

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27.02.2025 Astrophysics

Young Star Clusters Give Birth to Rogue Planetary-Mass Objects

How do rogue planetary-mass objects – celestial bodies with masses between stars and planets – form? An international team of astronomers has used advanced simulations to show that these enigmatic objects are linked to the chaotic dynamics of young star clusters.

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26.02.2025 Psychiatry

Schizophrenia is Reflected in the Brain Structure

The symptoms of schizophrenia vary greatly from person to person. A new study shows how these differences manifest themselves in the structure of the brain.

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25.02.2025 Innovation Economics

Rising Wages Drive Innovation in Automation Technology

A new UZH study shows for the first time that higher minimum wages for low-skill jobs drive firms to develop automation technologies. Rising wages for high-skill labor, in contrast, can hamper this effect.

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25.02.2025 Semester Awards

Journeying through History

How seabird excrement made history in the Caribbean – the term paper about this topic by history student Vivianne Rhyner received a semester award from UZH.

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24.02.2025 TRANSFORM

Long-Term Research Funding

Seed money from the TRANSFORM funding stream will allow the university to establish lasting interdisciplinary research structures in the fields of classical studies, quality assurance in research, and immunotherapy.

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20.02.2025 Political Science

Getting to the Roots of Violence

Some regions of the world are dominated by violence, yet elsewhere people lead relatively peaceful lives. The political scientist Enzo Nussio is researching why this is the case and looking for strategies to make countries in Latin America more peaceful.

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19.02.2025 Glaciology

Melting Glaciers Increase Loss of Freshwater Resources and Rise Global Sea Levels

The melting ice from glaciers worldwide is leading to an increased loss of regional freshwater resources. Since the year 2000, glaciers have been losing 273 billion tons of ice annually.

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19.02.2025 Collections at UZH

Of Skulls and Polar Bears

The University of Zurich's wide-ranging collections serve as a valuable resource for scientific research. Establishing the origins of the objects and handling them with respect are key principles.

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17.02.2025 Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development

Authority or Leniency?

Parents across the world raise their children in different ways. Researchers from UZH investigate how in the World Parenting Survey.

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13.02.2025 Medical microbiology

Curbing the Global Spread of Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Cases of bacterial sexually transmitted infections are on the rise worldwide. The University of Zurich has now developed a new method for genome sequencing and discovered a previously unrecognized strain of chlamydia

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