UNI NOVA – Research Magazine of the University of Basel
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Alumni
From India via Basel to NASA.
Text: Bettina Volz-Tobler / Arkaprabha Sarangi is a research associate at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, USA. While growing up in India, he developed a keen interest in all physical sciences. His passion for astrophysics eventually led him to move to Basel to pursue a PhD. From here, it was only a short hop to NASA.
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Alumni
New alumni association created.
Text: Bettina Volz-Tobler / The University of Basel’s degree program in computer science was launched in 2003. Fifteen years on, the alumni association AlumniComputerScience has been formed.
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Alumni
Eventful times at the Nile.
Astrid Frefel started her career in journalism after having studied economics in Basel. As a foreign correspondent, she reported for various German-language media from Cairo.
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Column
Goethe’s “Faust”: a dangerous pact with the Devil.
Text: Anne Spang / My book: Biologist Anne Spang recommends «Faust» by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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Dossier
On urban and rural life.
Text: Manuel Herz / Even as the borders between urban and rural areas become more permeable, we remain a long way from worldwide complete urbanization.
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Dossier
Basel, its population and the city walls.
Text: Jörg Becher / Historians are investigating how the spatial development of Basel since the Middle Ages has affected social life in the city and vice versa.
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Dossier
New housing for social change.
Text: Samuel Schlaefli / Co-operative living is back en vogue. A Basel-based sociologist is following the development of new housing projects and researching their innovative and socially transformative potential.
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Dossier
Where the life sciences are concentrated.
Text: Christoph Dieffenbacher / As one of the world’s leading locations for life sciences, the Basel region is home to a cluster of companies and organizations that not only compete with one another but also engage in cooperation. These are the findings of a new research study in the field of geography.
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Dossier
City districts: shifting spaces.
Text: Christoph Dieffenbacher / Cities are structured into different districts. A human geographer has been exploring the characteristics of Basel’s neighborhoods.