UNI NOVA – Research Magazine of the University of Basel

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  A historian in the age of the data deluge.

  Interview: Bettina Volz-Tobler / Historian Franziska Bühler of the Swiss Federal Statistical Office is responsible for coordinating the exchange of population data between the Swiss residents’ registers and Federal Statistical Office. Bühler serves as Section Head of sedex and Register Development, and she and her team play a key role in Switzerland’s federal data management.

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  On being human in Africa.

  Text: Divine Fuh / Divine Fuh completed his doctorate at the University of Basel from 2005 until 2009 at the Institute of Social Anthropology and Center for African Studies. Today, he is director of the Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA) at the University of Cape Town.

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  Between literature and geography.

  Interview: Bettina Volz-Tobler / Dr. Barbara Piatti mediates between academia and the public. She manages and develops interdisciplinary and cultural history projects, creating formats ranging from books to digital portals, festivals to audio dramas and staged walks – both on her own initiative and on behalf of official bodies, institutions and businesses.

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  Signs of increasing appeal.

  Text: Bettina Volz-Tobler / The Alumni Prize was launched in 2015, the 10th anniversary of AlumniBasel. It is endowed with a CHF 10,000 prize by an alumnus and patron and aims to show the many ways in which University of Basel alumni go on to enrich society after completing their studies.

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  Special issue stamps by a Basel alumnus.

  Molecular biologist Dr. Martin Oeggerli, alumnus of the University of Basel, created two special Swiss Post stamps.

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  Global challenges and the coronavirus crisis.

  Text: Pascale Baeriswyl / Pascale Baeriswyl studied law, history and French literature and linguistics at the University of Basel. Today she is an ambassador to the UN in New York.

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  Team leader at swisstopo.

  Interview: Bettina Huber / Tobias Providoli studied geography at the University of Basel and works for the Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo) in Wabern near Bern. He now leads a production team working on the topographic landscape model (TLM) and is also involved in AlumniGeo.

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  Launch of AlumniPharmazie.

  Text: Bettina Volz-Tobler / AlumniPharmazie, a new specialist alumni organization that is long overdue, will be launched at the alumni general assembly in June 2020. This process has been driven by the executive board of the Basel Pharmaceutical Society (Pharmazeutische Gesellschaft Basel), which has been around for almost 100 years.

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  The memoirs of Dieter Imboden.

  Dieter Imboden, an environmental researcher and political scientist who spent much of his childhood in Basel, is a past winner of the Alumni Award. He recently published his autobiography.