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• 10.12.2020 Office Vice President Research

  Elisabeth Stark Nominated as New Vice President Research

  The UZH Senate nominated Professor Elisabeth Stark for the position of Vice President Research at its meeting on 10 December 2020. The Board of the University will finalize her appointment on 21 January 2021.

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• 09.11.2020 Honorary Doctorate for Andrea Büchler

  Not Looking Away From Difficult Situations

  Diversity is the barometer of our freedom, says UZH legal scholar Andrea Büchler. She was granted an honorary doctorate in September by the University of Vienna for her outstanding and courageous academic contributions.

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• 28.10.2020 Musicology

  Singing with the Maestro

  The composer Paul Hindemith worked as an unconventional professor at UZH in the 1950s. His archives, which document his many-faceted oeuvre, have now been donated to the Department of Musicology.

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• 14.10.2020 Communication and Media Research

  Haarsträubende Geschichten

  Disinformation is increasingly permeating our everyday news. But why does it spread more easily in some places than in others? Edda Humprecht knows what makes countries resistant to fake news.

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• 13.10.2020 In the Spotlight

  Die Unermüdliche

  Over the past months, Alexandra Trkola, head of the Institute of Medical Virology at UZH, has been showing her mettle as a researcher and communicator.

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• 08.10.2020 My Alma Mater

  “I love to be creative in a theoretical way”

  Salome Hohl, art historian, curator and recently-appointed director of Zurich’s Cabaret Voltaire, looks back on her UZH student days.

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• 24.09.2020 Covid-19

  «Communicate uncertainties»

  Never before has science been in the public limelight more than it is now because of Covid-19. Can it benefit from this? Communications researcher Mark Eisenegger and epidemiologist Milo Puhan discuss the gain in prestige, but also what’s at stake.

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• 15.09.2020 Part-time Leadership and Management

  Part-time employment benefits research

  Professor Stefanie Walter reduced her workload to better balance her professional and private life. She talks about her positive experience with the project on part-time leadership duties, which UZH launched as part of the Gender Equality Action Plan 2017–20.

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• 07.09.2020 International Relations

  “Not only fostering quality, but making it visible as well”

  In August Christian Simm, the founder of the Swiss swissnex network in the United States, took over as the head of the International Relations Office. In this interview with UZH News he explains why he believes UZH could be doing a lot to gain greater international influence and recognition.

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• 07.09.2020 Georg Friedrich Götz Award

  Georg Friedrich Götz Award

  Cancer researcher and physician Steffen Böttcher from the Medical Oncology and Hematology Clinic, and neuroscientist Silvia Brem from the University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich, have been presented with the Georg Friedrich Götz Award. The prize is awarded annually for outstanding contributions in the field of medical research.

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• 11.08.2020 Library

  University Library Zurich Gets Its First Director

  Rudolf Mumenthaler will be the first director of the new University Library Zurich (UBZH) when it opens its doors on 1 January 2022. He will take an active role setting up the new library from 1 January 2021.

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• 18.07.2020 President ad interim

  Thank you Gabriele Siegert!

  When Michael Hengartner stepped down, Gabriele Siegert took over the presidency of UZH on an interim basis on 1 February 2020. In two weeks, Michael Schaepman will take office as the new president on 1 August. The six months in between were quite a rollercoaster ride. Seven members of UZH look back.

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• 14.07.2020 Portrait

  Blazing a Trail

  Uschi Backes-Gellner advises the German government on employment matters and researches vocational education and training here in Switzerland. Her own father was a bricklayer.

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• 18.05.2020 Portrait

  In Another Skin

  Virtual reality can immerse you in foreign worlds and let you experience your body in a completely new way. Neuropsychologist Jasmine Ho wants to harness the power of these physical illusions for medical treatments.

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• 22.04.2020

  Reading Minds

  Thanks to neurotechnology, it could soon be possible to read people’s thoughts, says linguist Balthasar Bickel. While fascinating from a me­dical perspective, it’s also incredibly dangerous.

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• 14.04.2020

  Storm in the Blood Stream

  16-year old Patrick Simonis was looking death in the eye – but genetically modified blood cells enabled him to beat his cancer.

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• 25.02.2020 My Alma Mater

  The Biographer

  Regina Dieterle is the author of an 800-page biography on Theodor Fontane. The author and school teacher looks back on her time as a student at the UZH and tells how she became a Fontane expert.

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• 28.01.2020 Video Series “Standing Out”: Rolf Dörig

  Insurer Supreme

  Rolf Dörig is a household name in the business world as chairman of the board of directors of international companies such as Swiss Life or, until recently, the Adecco Group. Watch the video to find out what helped him build such a remarkable career and what he’d advise today’s students who want to reach the top.

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• 20.01.2020 Joseph Stiglitz at UZH

  Doing Nothing Is Not an Option

  The new Center of Competence for Sustainable Finance (CCSF) was inaugurated at UZH last week. At the opening, Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel prize for economics and chair of the center’s academic advisory board, spoke about the risks and opportunities of climate change. His message was clear: Decisive action must be taken – now.

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• 08.01.2020 In the Spotlight

  Political Whiz Kid

  Political scientist Fabrizio Gilardi and his colleagues established the Digital Democracy Lab.

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