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First-generation students set up network

To have, or not to have, academic parents. This makes a huge difference, according to a group of students who have set up a network for first generation scholars.

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Science

The rice plant with gills

Rice plants 'breathe' through a thin gas coating, that works like the gills of fish. UCPH researcher has helped to locate the gene in rice that makes it water resistant for days. Now he wants to solve a wet climate challenge.

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Campus

To fight the loneliness, Peter went on ten different intro camps for new students

The University of Copenhagen has (at least) one student who is studying now on his tenth year and who, according to himself, is getting a huge benefit out of it every time he goes on the fresher camp for new students. It works as therapy for new students, and for their tutors.

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Science

A festival of science photography

ARTiS is a festival for any researcher that can illustrate their scientific studies with a particularly convincing picture.

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Education

2 new graduates visit 37 islands in 5 months. But why?

After a few years as graduates, these two young scholars had had enough of their lives behind desks. Today they are travelling around Denmark's small islands to do reports on what life is like there.

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Campus

The Maersk Tower is one of the world's most sustainable laboratory buildings

The laboratories take up most of the space in the 15-storey Maersk Tower and turn it into a real energy drain. Yet through the course of its eight-year-long construction, it has succeeded in implementing many initiatives that save energy and resources

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Education

Life on Mors: Landscape architects from UCPH found happiness in Northern Jutland

Not everyone stays in town when they get their exam papers. Two landscape architects reckon that they have done the right thing by moving to the island of Mors in the Limfjorden straights in Northern Jutland, where they are both working on developing urban and natural areas.

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Faculty of Science gets large EU grant for 74 international PhDs

Talented students from countries outside Denmark can be employed as PhD students at the University of Copenhagen with support from the EU

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Politics

The international interests of UCPH

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Campus

Thomas Bjørnholm leaves the University of Copenhagen after 32 years

University of Copenhagen’s prorector Thomas Bjørnholm is to leave his workplace of 32 years. From now on he will lead the work in allocating the Villum Fonden’s research grants

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