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14.01.2025 Semester Awards

Legal Detective Work

Law student Leander Etter used data analysis to demonstrate the impact that language barriers are having on the work of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court. He received a semester award for his Master’s thesis.

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04.12.2024 Semester Awards

More Maize for Farmers in Africa

As part of their Master’s project, three informatics students developed a software solution that could help farmers in sub-Saharan Africa to reduce their crop losses. In recognition of this, they received a UZH semester award.

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12.11.2024 Exhibition at the Ethnographic Museum

Tales of Ginseng Cut in Radiant Red Paper

Ginseng is treasured for the healing powers attributed to it. Its natural presence in the wilderness of Northeast China is rare, and it takes complex knowledge to search out and find it. Numerous tales accordingly entwine around the root and the quest for it. A papercut exhibition in the Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich devotes itself to those stories.

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05.11.2024 Semester Awards

“For me, it’s about the animals”

In her Master’s thesis, veterinary science student Natalie Miller-Collmann dared to take her own stand on a contentious research question, earning her a semester award.

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17.09.2024 Gender Equality

Childcare and Careers

The University of Zurich can reflect on 35 years of work to promote gender equality: four women who champion this issue at UZH recount how they first got involved and what their experiences have been.

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29.04.2024 191. Dies academicus

Bridge Building, Good Governance and Grumpy Professors

UZH celebrated the 191st anniversary of its founding last Saturday. Daniel Jositsch, a member of the Council of States, held an opening address that humorously touched on the role of politics and science.

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22.02.2024 Collegium Helveticum

Tax History

Historian Madeline Woker is conducting research into tax (in)justice as a fellow at the Collegium Helveticum. Last Friday, she organised a panel discussion with the economist Gabriel Zucman, who has published the “Global Tax Evasion Report 2024”.

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10.01.2024 Zurich’s Senior Citizens University UZH3

Seeing the World Anew

Zurich’s Senior Citizens University UZH3 exercises the brain cells of adults over sixty. Combined with sport and social activities, lifelong learning is a health asset in people’s later years. Research carried out by UZH psychologist Burcu Demiray also backs this up.

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07.12.2023 New UZH Magazine

Research on a Global Scale: Learning from Each Other

UZH researchers work with partners around the world on medical, legal, social, economic and political issues and questions. The newest issue of the UZH Magazin, out now in German, shines a light on these global collaborations. As usual, a selection of articles from the magazine will be published here in English over the coming weeks.

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24.10.2023 Portrait Livia Leu

In Service of Country

UZH alumna Livia Leu grew up the daughter of a hotelier in the Graubünden Alps. Now she’s Switzerland’s highest-ranking diplomat. We visited the State Secretary and chief negotiator for talks with the EU in Bern to hear what it means to live abroad and in service of country.

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04.10.2023 New Vice President Finances

"The University Cosmos Fascinates Me"

Daniel Hug took over as Vice President Finances at UZH in February 2023. UZH News interviewed him to find out about his first impressions and his plans for UZH.

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07.09.2023 Symposium in Honor of K. Alex Müller

“We unleashed an avalanche”

On 21 September, UZH is hosting a symposium in honor of the late physicist and Nobel laureate K. Alex Müller. Ahead of the event, we shine a spotlight on the discovery that earned Müller the Nobel Prize and speak with two of his close colleagues.

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29.08.2023 SNSF Advanced Grant

Two Million for Memory Research

Neuroscientist Fritjof Helmchen has been awarded a coveted SNSF Advanced Grant worth CHF 2 million to fund his project researching a new theory of memory formation.

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15.08.2023 Portrait Ning Wang

Tango and Ethics

Ning Wang cuts a confident figure – in science, in international organizations and on the dance floor. The UZH ethicist and political scientist grew up in China and is now an advisor to the WEF. She develops ethical guidelines for, among other things, the use of drones.

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23.02.2023 Portrait

Tenacious Virtuoso

Kerstin Noëlle Vokinger has doctorates in law and medicine, was admitted to the bar, has a Master’s degree from Harvard and is a professor at only 34 years old. And yet she doesn’t see herself as a high flier.

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21.12.2022 New UZH Magazin

Climate Change, Wars and Insatiable Data Dredgers

The challenges facing the global community today are complex and manifold: climate crisis, war, poverty, inequality, digitalization, a new political world order. The new issue of the UZH Magazin analyzes some of the problems and points to possible solutions.

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30.11.2022 Right Livelihood Award

“Peace is more than the absence of war”

Fartuun Adan and Ilwad Elman are the recipients of this year’s Right Livelihood Award, also known as the alternative Nobel Prize. Before the awards ceremony, the two activists spoke at UZH about their humanitarian activities in Somalia, a country beset by civil war.

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10.11.2022 Cardiology

A Fountain of Youth for Blood Vessels

Vascular aging is the most common cause of fatal cardiovascular diseases. Can blood vessels be rejuvenated using fat cells? Cardiologist Soheil Saeedi is developing a novel method to do just that.

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09.11.2022 Economics

Diversifizieren statt abschotten

Global trade policy has become more unpredictable, says the recently appointed Chief Economist of the World Trade Organization (WTO), UZH’s Ralph Ossa. We interviewed him to find out more.

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19.10.2022 Space Research

A Factory in Outer Space

It’s possible to produce things in orbit that wouldn’t be possible on Earth, says Oliver Ullrich. We sat down with the biochemist and space physician to learn more about weightless cells, the UZH Space Hub, and humans as an interplanetary species.

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