The Swiss National Science Foundation is awarding two SNSF Consolidator Grants to researchers at the University of Basel. The five-year projects in the fields of history and computer science will each receive around CHF 1.7 million in funding.
The Swiss federal government is launching a national initiative to consolidate Switzerland’s leading position in quantum science. This initiative will also benefit the internationally recognized quantum research at the University of Basel: two projects have been approved.
Prof. Dr. Michael N. Hall from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel has been awarded the 2024 Balzan Prize for Biological Mechanisms of Ageing. The cell biologist discovered the protein TOR (target of rapamycin), a key regulator of cell growth and metabolism, which has also been implicated in development, ageing and a wide variety of diseases such as cancer and diabetes.
Many people in Ticino are familiar with the feeling that their form of Italian is inferior to that spoken in the peninsula to the south. A linguistic and comparative analysis of official Swiss Italian has now shown that this is not the case. Translation practices at the federal level play a key role.
The University Council has appointed three new professors in the departments of Nephrology, Molecular Biology and Digital Humanities.
Toniebox, Tiptoi, and Tamagotchi are smart toys, offering interactive play through software and internet access. However, several of these toys raise privacy concerns, and some even collect extensive behavioral data about children, report researchers at the University of Basel.
Switzerland and China have maintained economic relations and cultural contacts for centuries, sometimes during critical periods. Historian Ariane Knüsel has co-authored a new publication on the relationship between the two countries.
The cultural significance of radio is the subject of the research project “Radiophonic Cultures”, the second volume of which was recently published. In an interview, media scientist Professor Ute Holl explains the cultural and social forms that radio has produced, and why it remains an essential medium in the digital world.
The President’s Board of the University of Basel has appointed Dr. Dominik Meier assistant professor of global philanthropy at the Faculty of Business and Economics and the Center for Philanthropy Studies.