UNI NOVA – Research Magazine of the University of Basel

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  Research

  Age-related unemployment.

  Text: Christoph Dieffenbacher / Older workers are at a disadvantage, especially when faced with the threat of redundancies or when applying for a new job. According to Kurt Pärli, a Basel-based professor of law, Switzerland performs worse than other countries when it comes to discrimination against older people.

• Opinion

  Is it worth researching rare diseases, Stefan Felder?

  Text: Stefan Felder / Does it make sense to promote research into diseases that only affect a very small number of people? A health economist and a medical ethicist offer contrasting views.

• Opinion

  Is it worth researching rare diseases, Bernice Elger?

  Text: Bernice Elger / Does it make sense to promote research into diseases that only affect a very small number of people? A health economist and a medical ethicist offer contrasting views.

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  In pictures

  On the trail of tsunamis.

  Text: Reto Caluori / Researchers on the Caribbean island of Anegada have uncovered evidence of two major historical tsunamis.

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  Opinion

  Controlled loss of control.

  Text: Alexander Fischer / Storytelling remains an important part of social discourse – even in an age of fake news, conspiracy theories and fabricated feature stories.

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  Alumni

  A theologian in recruitment.

  Interview: Bettina Volz-Tobler / Gabriela Brahier Stark studied Reformed theology in Basel while she was still a Catholic. After training as a curate in a parish in Graubünden, she converted, serving as a Reformed pastor in Reinach, Basel-Landschaft. At the same time, she obtained her doctorate, with a thesis on ethics, and was awarded a post-doctoral grant. She then moved into the private sector, where she joined a recruitment company.

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  Alumni

  Ethnology establishes alumni group.

  Text: Bettina Volz-Tobler / Ethnology has existed as a discipline in Basel for over 100 years. An alumni organization for the subject has now been established.

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  Alumni

  Life as a nanoscience researcher in southern Sweden.

  Heidi Potts studied nanoscience in Basel and Toronto. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Lund in Sweden.

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  Column

  Against totalitarianism.

  Text: Manuel Battegay / “Life and Fate”, by Vasily Grossman: Against totalitarianism.