UNI NOVA – Research Magazine of the University of Basel

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  Research

  Criminalizing the veil?

  Text: Tobias Ehrenbold / Switzerland is set to vote on whether covering one’s own face should be a punishable offense. Having weighed up the arguments employed by proponents of the initiative, Basel legal scholar Bijan Fateh-Moghadam concludes that a general ban on face coverings is incompatible with the country’s liberal federal constitution.

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  Opinion

  Corruption: What is the problem, Lucy Koechlin?

  Text: Lucy Koechlin / What are the mechanisms behind global corruption and what is the best way to combat it?

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  Opinion

  Corruption: 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 pictures

  3D 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.

• 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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  Alumni

  From 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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  Alumni

  New 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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  Alumni

  Eventful 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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  Column

  Goethe’s “Faust”: a dangerous pact with the Devil.

  Text: Anne Spang / My book: Biologist Anne Spang recommends «Faust» by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.