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The University Post sent a reporter out into the field to try as many student sports as he could in a day, it ended up being three.
On Friday 23 August the UCPH managers welcomed the 2024 cohort of new students. The students loved the combination of bling, self-deprecating humour, and sense of community.
We asked Merete Eldrup, chair of the Board of the University of Copenhagen (UCPH), how they are going to reform the administration when the employees don’t support them.
We need something that unites us in times of division. Here it is: The annual festival for all students and staff is on Friday 31 May.
Professor of freshwater biology at UCPH Kirsten Seestern Christoffersen shoulders a rifle when she takes students out on field trips in Greenland and on Svalbard in northern Norway. But the weapon is no protection against climate change.
Administration reform will mean a goodbye to 380 technical and administrative staff. The first half will be laid off in the fall of 2024. The remaining 190 staff, in terms of full-time staff equivalents, will be laid off towards the end of 2027.
Students at the university on Svalbard get a week-long safety course which includes shooting with rifles: They share territory with polar bears. We met up with two UCPH students close to the North Pole who say their experiences are 'supreme' and 'absurdly beautiful'.
Medical doctor and postdoc Amani Meaidi spends all her waking hours working against one particular imbalance: The amount of research into men's and women's diseases. She is so obsessed with women-specific genes that she sometimes gets a stress rash on her hands.
