Responsibility and justice in dealing with climate and other environmental risks
24.05.2022
A lecture by Ivo Wallimann-Helmer - now online!
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Portrait: Prof. Claude Monney
16.05.2022
At the beginning of 2022, Claude Monney became a full professor at the Faculty of Science and Medicine. He tells us what brought him here, about his research and about his teaching philosophy. Portrait…
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The genetic origins of the world's first farmers clarified
15.05.2022
The genetic origins of the first agriculturalists in the Neolithic period long seemed to lie in the Near East. A new study published in the journal Cell shows that the first farmers actually represented…
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New director for the Adolphe Merkle Institute
02.05.2022
In agreement with the University of Fribourg, the board of the Adolphe Merkle Foundation has appointed Prof. Ullrich Steiner as the new director of the Adolphe Merkle Institute. He replaces Prof. Christoph…
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Save the Date: UniFR Research Funding Week 16-20 May
11.04.2022
Save the date in your diaries for our 2022 Research Funding Week, which will take place in person from Monday 16th to Friday 20th May. Courtesy of your very own SPR, the Research Funding Week will mainly…
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The New UniFR Grant Tool is finally here!
05.04.2022
A new tool has been developed by the DIT in collaboration with the SPR in order to help UniFR researchers find and apply for funding. The new grant tool is very easy of access and handily regroups in one…
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Biodiversity: using artificial intelligence to better identify areas to protect
03.04.2022
Can more species be saved from extinction by using artificial intelligence? A team of researchers, led by SIB Group Leader Daniele Silvestro of the University of Fribourg and University of Gothenburg,…
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Des ascidiens made in Fribourg
27.03.2022
Parce qu'il ne savait pas que c'était impossible, Simon Blanchoud l'a fait! Le chercheur fribourgeois a réussi à élever des ascidies coloniales en captivité, ces invertébrés marins aux propriétés régénératives…
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1.5 million Swiss francs for cryospheric research in Central Asia
21.02.2022
While glaciers are shrinking worldwide, those in the Pamir Mountains in Central Asia show less change. They and the other components of the cryosphere (snow and permafrost) are key unknowns for future…
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