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Theology and Religions

13 Jun 2025

Zwingli, God and UZH

Five centuries since Huldrych Zwingli’s Bible study classes in Grossmünster, the church’s ...

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25 Mar 2025

Conceptualizing the Virgin Mary

Maria 1.0 is an initiative run by Catholic women who promote traditional female roles in the ...

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13 Mar 2025

Artificial Intelligence: Between Demons and God

An avatar priest, praying via app and artificial intelligence as a deity: UZH anthropologist ...

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Law and Legislation

17 Apr 2025

A Clear Thinker with Sharp Wits

Lawyer and UZH alumna Cordelia Bähr was the legal brain behind the landmark lawsuit brought by ...

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26 Mar 2025

The Strength of a United Europe

Europe currently faces challenges on multiple fronts: internally from populism, and externally ...

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25 Mar 2025

“The Court should be there for the people”

UZH professor Alice Margaria's research shows that the European Court of Human Rights often ...

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Economics and Informatics

18 Jun 2025

Visit UZH in Japan, Virtually

At the Virtual World Expo 2025, visitors will have the opportunity to visit the city campus of ...

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27 May 2025

Your Best Friend’s Personality Can Shape Your Own

Students become more conscientious, open, and competitive when they spend time with friends who ...

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15 May 2025

More Sustainability, Less Moral Preaching

If Switzerland and the EU want to become carbon-neutral by 2050, they need to overcome ...

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Medicine and Dentistry

19 Jun 2025

“ADHD is complex. There are no black and white answers.”

Molecular neuroscientist Edna Grünblatt uses stem cells from individuals with ADHD to ...

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5 Jun 2025

43,000 Data Points against Melanoma

Every tumor is unique. In a new study, scientists from Zurich and Basel used advanced ...

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4 Jun 2025

Study Traces Transmission Routes in Largest Diphtheria Outbreak in Western Europe in 70 Years

Data from the outbreak indicate transmission routes along established migration pathways into ...

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Veterinary Medicine

8 Jan 2025

Rethinking Population Management in Zoos

Until now, zoos used contraception to avoid surplus animals. Scientists argue for preserving ...

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5 Nov 2024

“For me, it’s about the animals”

In her Master’s thesis, veterinary science student Natalie Miller-Collmann dared to take her own ...

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16 Apr 2024

Happy Mums, Healthy Babies

One in 10 women suffer from depression during pregnancy. The illness often goes untreated and ...

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Arts and Social Sciences

2 Jun 2025

Korean Art is Making Waves

As a major exhibition at Museum Rietberg showcases the global success of contemporary Korean ...

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13 May 2025

Multilingual Switzerland

Switzerland long ago stopped being a quadrilingual country. It is now a multilingual one. A new ...

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28 Apr 2025

Personality Traits Shape Our Prosocial Behavior

Why do some people do more for the community than others? A new study now shows that personality ...

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Natural Sciences and Mathematics

20 Jun 2025

“I’ve spent half my life at UZH”

Twenty-one-year-old Maximilian Janisch defended his PhD thesis today. In this interview, the ...

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19 Jun 2025

The Downside of Part-Time Work

With her ERC Advanced Grant the UZH labor geographer Karin Schwiter plans to study the problem ...

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18 Jun 2025

Research Begins on Landslide in Blatten

A few days after the landslide in the Lötschental valley, remote sensing specialists from the ...

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Theology and Religions

Zwingli, God and UZH

Conceptualizing the Virgin Mary

Artificial Intelligence: Between Demons and God

Law and Legislation

A Clear Thinker with Sharp Wits

The Strength of a United Europe

“The Court should be there for the people”

Economics and Informatics

Visit UZH in Japan, Virtually

Your Best Friend’s Personality Can Shape Your Own

More Sustainability, Less Moral Preaching

Medicine and Dentistry

“ADHD is complex. There are no black and white answers.”

43,000 Data Points against Melanoma

Study Traces Transmission Routes in Largest Diphtheria Outbreak in Western Europe in 70 Years

Veterinary Medicine

Rethinking Population Management in Zoos

“For me, it’s about the animals”

Happy Mums, Healthy Babies

Arts and Social Sciences

Korean Art is Making Waves

Multilingual Switzerland

Personality Traits Shape Our Prosocial Behavior

Natural Sciences and Mathematics

“I’ve spent half my life at UZH”

The Downside of Part-Time Work

Research Begins on Landslide in Blatten

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