UNI NOVA – Research Magazine of the University of Basel

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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.

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  Dossier

  On 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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  Dossier

  Basel, 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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  Dossier

  Where 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.