Research in the Spirit of Sustainability (01/2015)
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The University of Basel defined the thematic focal area Sustainability and Energy Research in its strategy for 2014 – 2017. This issue of UNI NOVA showcases our activities in this important and rapidly developing field.
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Dossier
Not all that is green is sustainable
Oliver Klaffke / In the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Basel, Paul Burger conducts research into sustainable behavior. He examines its consequences, how to encourage it, and the reasons why people choose to live by sustainable principles.
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Fungi, plastics and sustainability
Oliver Klaffke / Researchers at the University of Basel are investigating how fungi and bacteria decompose wood. This basic research is facilitating the production of new materials – and might also provide clues about processes that maintain human health.
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Dossier“Some fundamental uncertainties remain”.
Interview: Matthias Geering and Thomas Pfluger / UNI NOVA spoke to Frank Krysiak about sustainability research and its importance to Swiss politics.
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ResearchWhen sleeper cells cause problems
Karin Bundschuh / Infectious diseases are becoming increasingly hard to treat. Slow-growing bacteria in particular are making therapy difficult.
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Research
Few regrets in the face of death
Christoph Dieffenbacher / People who take time to think about death do not regret as much in their lives as one might imagine. One reason for this could be that we do not, when we come to contemplate our mortality, wish to endanger our self-esteem and so we somehow reinterpret the past.
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Opinion
“With Europe in our backpack, Africa as a sparring partner, the world in our sights.”
Antonio Loprieno / Africa at a European university.
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PortraitPerspectives on Europe and the world at large
Julia Konstantinidis / Ralph Weber likes to cross boundaries. As assistant professor at Basel’s Institute for European Global Studies, his frame of reference is global rather than Swiss or European.
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UniversityPositive balance thanks to budget discipline and additional income
The University of Basel closed its accounts for 2014 with expenditure of about CHF 707 million and a profit of CHF 6.7 million.