UNI NOVA – Research Magazine of the University of Basel
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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.
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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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DossierWhere 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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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.
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Neighborhoods 2.0
Text: Samuel Schlaefli / Are neighborhoods becoming less important in an individualized and increasingly mobile society? Not according to cultural anthropologist Christina Besmer, who claims that they are simply changing form as diversity grows and society is digitalized.
