UNI NOVA – Research Magazine of the University of Basel
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OpinionCorruption: What is the problem, Claudia Baez Camargo?
Text: Claudia Baez Camargo / What are the mechanisms behind global corruption and what is the best way to combat it?
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In pictures3D models for medicine.
Text: Reto Caluori / The rapid adoption of 3D printing in the world of medicine is leading to a steady stream of new applications in hospitals. At Basel University Hospital, the technique is used to manufacture implants and to plan complex operations in advance.
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Opinion
“Self-optimization”: a scandalous type.
Text: Eberhard Wolff / On a trendy term that even academia uses in an emotionalized and functionalized way – as happened with “Waldsterben” (forest dieback) some years ago.
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AlumniFrom 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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AlumniNew 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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AlumniEventful 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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ColumnGoethe’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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DossierOn 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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DossierBasel, 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.
