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On Thursday, November 26, the ceremony for granting of the title was held at the Convention Center on the Osaka University's Suita Campus with measures in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The title recipients received a…

Dealing with lots of change can be stressful and scary. There’s no question about it, and given the circumstances of today, there’s quite a lot of it. This brings up several questions: Why is this so? Why do we fear change? And, more…

The Swiss Federal Act on Gender Equality states that men and women are entitled to equal pay for the same work. To make sure that this is accomplished as far as possible, since July 2020 employers with 100 or more employees have been…

UZH aims to be a carbon-neutral institution in 10 years. The 2030 Implementation Strategy for the Sustainability Policy defines how this is to be achieved. We sat down with Lorenz Hilty, the UZH sustainability delegate, to talk about…

The coronavirus pandemic has made us aware of the potential and limitations of working and studying digitally. UZH President Michael Schaepman and UZH Chief Information Officer Thomas Sutter talk about cyber risks, accelerated…

Training future farmers on the latest science-based management and production techniques is at the core of the College of Agricultural and Life Science’s mission. Since 1886, the college has provided training to tens of thousands of…

UW–Madison will confer nearly 3,000 degrees this Sunday at its winter 2020 commencement ceremony, to be held virtually due to the ongoing pandemic. The virtual ceremony will be released at wisc.edu/commencement beginning at 11 a.m.…

Three women scientists from Heidelberg University were awarded highly endowed grants from the European Research Council (ERC): Biophysicist Prof. Dr Frauke Gräter, astrophysicist Prof. Dr Saskia Hekker, and physicist Prof. Dr Christine…

LMU researchers Nicole Bolleyer, Ralf Jungmann, Jan Lipfert, Martin Saxer, Philipp Stockhammer and Ronny Vollandt have been awarded Consolidator Grants in the latest evaluation of research proposals submitted to the ERC. Bolleyer,…

• The issue of how long a battery pack will remain in useful operation, to guarantee a warranty for an electric vehicle battery, is a challenge faced by most car manufacturers, as they haven’t been around long enough for them to know…