Archive Awards 2018

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• 08.11.2018 Best of Swiss Apps

  Three Awards for UZH Now

  UZH now is the most user-friendly Swiss app of 2018. At the Best of Swiss Apps 2018 awards ceremony, UZH’s official app also won two more prizes in the Innovation and Functionality categories.

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• 24.10.2018 Climate Action Hub

  Boost to UZH’s Climate Network

  Thanks to its far-reaching and interdisciplinary research and teaching in the area of climate change, UZH has been chosen as a climate action hub. This distinction is awarded by the United Nations Academic Impact on the occasion of United Nations Day.

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• 24.09.2018 Right Livelihood Award

  The Forest Maker

  The winners of this year’s Right Livelihood Award were announced this week. Among them is Australian agronomist Tony Rinaudo, who will be giving a lecture at the University of Zurich on 28 November 2018.

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• 17.09.2018 swissuniversities

  Tackling Global Challenges Together

  Two UZH researchers have been awarded grants under swissuniversities’ Development and Coordination Network program (SUDAC). These promote collaboration between Swiss higher education institutions and their partners from the Global South who are committed to researching and overcoming global challenges. The International Relations Office at UZH shares this goal, which is why it is staging a workshop on the topic.

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• 14.09.2018 Neuroscience

  Pioneer of Multiple Sclerosis Research Honored

  This year’s award of the Betty and David Koetser Foundation for Brain Research was presented to Professor Alastair Compston from the University of Cambridge. He was awarded for his research into the causes of multiple sclerosis and the discovery of new therapies.

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• 19.07.2018 Musicology

  Cultural History with Reverberations

  The Royal Musical Association has awarded its Dent Medal to a member of the University of Zurich for the third time, recognizing musicologist Inga Mai Groote for her outstanding work on music history.

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• 28.06.2018 Honor

  Researcher with Multiple Talents

  UZH doctoral candidate José Parra Moyano has been bestowed with a very special honor: The 27-year-old Spaniard was included on Forbes magazine’s prestigious 30 under 30 list. Parra Moyano researches blockchain technology at UZH.

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• 20.06.2018 Plant Immune Systems

  Heyday for Plant Researcher

  Until recently Cyril Zipfel was head of the prestigious Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich, Great Britain. Now he’s taken up a role as professor of plant physiology at UZH – armed with an ERC Consolidator Grant as well as a prestigious Japanese award.

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• 02.05.2018 Campus

  Research in Pictures

  The SNSF Scientific Image Competition encourages researchers to pick up a camera and present scientific work from a different angle. Our picture gallery features some of the photos submitted by UZH researchers.

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• 06.04.2018 Day of Clinical Research

  Scientists Honored

  Nephrologist Johan Lorenzen and gastroenterologist Michael Scharl have received the renowned Georg Friedrich Götz Award. This prize is awarded annually at UZH for outstanding contributions in the field of medical research. The award was presented at the Day of Clinical Research at the UniversityHospital Zurich, alongside the presentation of the 2018 Hartmann Müller Memorial Prize.

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• 15.03.2018 Mercator Awards

  Award-Winning Research by Junior Scholars

  This year's Mercator Awards recognize the research achievements of immunologist Natalia Arenas-Ramirez, theologian Christoph Heilig, and economist Bruno Caprettini. The awards will be presented at the Annual Event of the Graduate Campus of UZH on 3 July.

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• 01.02.2018 Pfizer Research Award

  Award-Winning Medical Research

  This year's winners of the Pfizer Research Awards include seven researchers from the University of Zurich and the University's hospitals.

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• 31.01.2018 Order of Merit

  UZH Virus Researcher Honored

  Karin Mölling, professor emerita of virology at UZH, has been awarded the Cross of Merit (First Class) of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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