University of Zurich

The 1900/01 Boxer Rebellion in China resulted in the deaths of more than 100,000 people, massive damage to cultural heritage in Beijing and countless looted objects that eventually ended up in museums and collections across the West. A…

How do students develop self-motivation? What is my own motivation for teaching molecular biology? During his CAS in University Teaching and Learning, molecular biologist and bioinformatics specialist Jonas Grossmann found himself…

Recent experiments have shown that the loss of species from a plant community can reduce ecosystem functions and services such as productivity, carbon storage and soil health. This reduced functioning may also destabilize the ecosystem in…

Despite progress toward gender equality in recent decades, most women and men still work in different occupations. For example, many care jobs are held by women while blue-collar jobs are dominated by men. This sex segregation has…

When the Digital Society Initiative (DSI) launched back in 2016, UZH had set itself the ambitious goal of creating 36 professorships in the field of digital transformation. “This recent batch of tenure-track assistant professorships means…

At UZH, new ideas evolve into pioneering technologies of the future. Last year, three groups of business founders with roots at UZH took the entrepreneurial leap and signed a licensing agreement with UZH. Their spin-offs emerged from life…

150 million people worldwide are affected by urinary tract infections every year, often recurrent. The standard treatment is antibiotics, but these do not always help and can lead to resistance. Antibiotics also damage the “good” bacteria…

A majority of people in Switzerland believe research, including basic research, is necessary and improves their lives. According to the latest findings of the Science Barometer Switzerland, 71% and 67% respectively agree with these…

According to a report published by the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences in 2018, Swiss higher education institutions are failing to provide fledgling academics with sufficient job prospects and long-term professional opportunities, in…

Thirty years ago, US political scientist Francis Fukuyama formulated his theory of the end of history. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he predicted the final victory for democracy and liberalism. As we now know, the prophesized…