UNI NOVA – Research Magazine of the University of Basel

Working hours: autonomous workers are more productive

Text: Olivia Poisson / When the cat’s away, the mice will play – or so the saying goes. Despite the trend toward flexible working time, such as working from home and trust-based working time, these models are still the subject of concern at the management level. The economist Michael Beckmann challenges the idea that a lack of monitoring leads to idle employees.

Improving early detection of psychosis

Text: Yvonne Vahlensieck / A team at the Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel is developing new methods for early detection of psychosis. Timely treatment can have a decisive beneficial effect on the course of the illness.

From Erasmus to JavaScript

Text: Urs Hafner / The University of Basel is positioning itself as a national center for digital editions. In doing so, it is helping to reinvent the tradition of editing established by Erasmus of Rotterdam at the bend of the Rhine river.

From nose to knee

Text: Reto Caluori / Cartilage cells from the nose are exceptionally well suited to repairing damage in knee joints.

Botanical entanglements

What did the ancient Celts eat?

Against dichotomy

Text: Markus Krajewski / If a university should stand for anything, it is the ability to master complicated subject matter. A short paean to complexity.

Talking about language

Text: Sarah Schupp / Martin Luginbühl is a language enthusiast. His passion as Professor of German Studies is for applied linguistics – such as language use in the media.

Hermann Schmitz’s “Phänomenologie der Zeit”

Text: Wolf Langewitz / My book: Wolf Langewitz, Professor of Medicine, recommends “Phänomenologie der Zeit” by the German Philosopher Hermann Schmitz.