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The 70s-era buildings on Irchel Campus are in need of renovation. The multipurpose building PORTAL UZH is at the heart of the university’s ...

Together with UZH and international research partners, Balgrist University Hospital has successfully completed the FAROS project.

Remarkable fossil evidence of an ancient sea cow being preyed upon by a crocodile and a shark offers fresh insights into the predation tactics and ...

The way people behave in complex social relationships over time can now be analyzed in great detail thanks to methods developed by the URPP Social ...

Ecosystems are more stable and productive when they contain more species. This has been demonstrated impressively by researchers from the URPP ...

Financial market law can’t prevent a bank going bankrupt – nor should it – but it should effectively limit the impact on systemic stability and ...

One major achievement of the URPP Translational Cancer Research is the newly created “dialogue among equals between basic research and clinical ...

“The scientific strides we’ve made will hopefully allow us to kick-start the long-awaited technology of producing energy from artificial ...

How do organisms and pathogens evolve and adapt to the environment? This was the question that the URPP Evolution in Action sought to address. The ...

Elvira Glaser, co-founder of the recently concluded University Research Priority Program Language and Space, takes stock and tells us what ...

Together with UZH and international research partners, Balgrist University Hospital has successfully completed the FAROS project.

Remarkable fossil evidence of an ancient sea cow being preyed upon by a crocodile and a shark offers fresh insights into the predation tactics and ...

A space mission called LIFE will survey planets beyond our solar system – with the specific aim of finding out if they could sustain life. ...

Preparing a new semester is a lot of work. We asked seven members of UZH’s administrative and technical staff to take us through their ...

It was an unusual start to the new school year this week as Kantonsschule Zürich Nord relocated to two specially converted buildings on the Irchel ...

UZH looks back on 35 years of gender equality efforts, from the early days of women’s advancement to the current work of the Office for Gender ...

At Una Europa’s first public discussion in Switzerland, the leaders of the universities of Zurich, Leiden and Edinburgh were all in agreement: the academic, organizational and financial independence of universities must be fiercely defended against attempts to exert external influence.

Neuroscientists have developed new objectives that enable high-resolution imaging of tissues and organs in a much wider variety of immersion media than with conventional microscope lenses.

The MyMi.mobile 2.0 app enables medical students to use their computers or smartphones to conduct microscope examinations of pathology tissue samples. This helps them understand the connections between cell structure and organ dysfunction.