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UCPH hit the hardest by year-on-year funding cuts

In a response to Mette Reissmann of the Social Democrats (S), the Minister for Higher Education and Research Søren Pind has specified what the Danish government's two per cent so-called re-prioritization contributions will cost the different educational institutions. The University of Copenhagen is, by far, hit the hardest.

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Politics

Laws against ‘honour-related’ crimes overkill, dissertation concludes

Danish legislation aimed at preventing so-called honour-related crimes is largely ineffective, according to the findings of a recent doctoral dissertation

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Campus

Student life is also hula hoops and kayaks

The students’ sports programme at the University of Copenhagen offers 270 different sports, ranging from kayakking to hula hoop teams. See the photos for inspiration and sign up if you want to join in.

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Campus

UCPH may have to give up Niels Bohr Building after delays

First, the new Niels Bohr Building should have been completed in 2016, then in 2017, then in 2018. At present, the Danish Building and Property Agency cannot say when the construction will be ready, or how expensive it will be. The University of Copenhagen is considering refusing to take the buildings.

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Science

UCPH scientists confirm the oldest life on earth

Two UCPH researchers confirm in an article in Nature that there are traces of life in the world's oldest rocks. The rocks are in Greenland and are 3.7 billion years old. The two have used a completely new method.

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Education

Cholera kills in Africa – Gildas fights it in Copenhagen

27-årige Gildas Hounmanou arbejder med sin ph.d. på Københavns Universitet for at kunne vende tilbage til sit hjemland Benin og bekæmpe de mange udbrud af kolera i hele Afrika.

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Science

An inventor's triumph and frustration

A new treatment concept that uses pulsating electromagnetic fields can cure patients with chronic depression. But, according to the inventor, it is an open question whether Denmark is too conservative for something so new to win over the health system.

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Science

An app to put your heart at ease

A UCPH computer scientist has helped develop an IT system that eliminates the time wasted for cardiologists who would otherwise have had to make repeated calls in vain to heart patients.

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Science

UCPH student’s photos of dying coral reef go global

The Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef, is dying. A student from the University of Copenhagen helped document this while on exchange at James Cook University in Australia.

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Science

New centre to explore where private lives end and the public sphere begins

A new Centre of Excellence at the Faculty of Theology will investigate the porous boundary between public and private life.

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