This Monday, the 2025 fall semester will begin for 12,890 students and PhD students at the University of Basel. The number of registrations has increased slightly compared to the previous year, and the total number of students will again exceed 13,000 in 2025.
The University of Basel’s Pharmacy Museum is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a festival, special exhibition and other events. Its director, historian Dr. Philippe Wanner, discusses the origins and history of the collection – and how it aims to be a modern museum without losing any of its historical character.
In the competition for highly sought-after research funding from the European Research Council, seven researchers from the University of Basel convinced the jury with their project ideas. Over the next five years, they will each receive between EUR 1.5 million and EUR 2.3 million through an ERC Starting Grant.
Interdisciplinary and topical, this semester the University of Basel is once again offering a diverse range of public lecture series that provide fresh perspectives on both established and emerging questions within a global context.
The University of Basel is setting up a new endowed professorship at the Biozentrum to make fundamental discoveries at the interface between biophysics and climate-relevant environmental biology. This will be made possible by the Georg H. Endress Foundation, which is generously funding the project.
In wound healing, immune response, and cancer metastasis, cells migrate through the body – often squeezing through narrow, confined spaces. Together with experimental collaborators, Prof. Dr. David Brückner at the University of Basel has discovered that cells possess a kind of memory: they can “remember” how they previously navigated such constrictions. This allows them to move more quickly and efficiently through complex tissues.
A research team from the University of Basel has developed a new molecule modeled on plant photosynthesis: under the influence of light, it stores two positive and two negative charges at the same time. The aim is to convert sunlight into carbon-neutral fuels.
August 25 marks the 125th anniversary of the death of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who was professor at the University of Basel from 1869 to 1879. In this interview, literary scholar Professor Hubert Thüring discusses the relevance of Nietzsche's writings and their continued importance today.
Researchers at the University of Basel have made a quantum bit faster and more robust at the same time. In the future, this could help in the development of quantum computers.
