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Economists can be scared too

Economists can and should work for the common good. This is according to Nobel Prize winner Jean Tirole, who will visit UCPH in October to discuss the climate crisis. Professor Peter Birch Sørensen is looking forward to it.

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Education

UCPH drops seven places to 116 on Times Higher Education ranking

The University of Copenhagen has dropped from number 109 to 116 on the Times Higher Education list of the world's best universities. UCPH is still Denmark's best university.

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Politics

The Bohr scandal: Spanish company accuses Danish property agency of 'smear campaign'

Spanish company Inabensa writes in a press release that the Danish government agency has launched a media smear campaign against the company to cover up the agency's own errors in connection with the scandal-hit Niels Bohr building at the University of Copenhagen.

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Education

Students making eco-friendly medicine for future Mars inhabitants

A group of students from eight different study programmes are in one laboratory at the Thorvaldsensvej street complex. They have one goal. They have dedicated their summer holidays to making a mobile medicine ‘suitcase’ that future Mars inhabitants can take with them into space.

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Opinion

The kafkaesque UCPH line on taking offence

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Education

No dressing up as a Native American, a Mexican, or an Olympic athlete

Management at the Faculty of Law have expressly forbidden theme parties where new students dress up like Mexicans, Olympic athletes of different nationalities, and theologians. But you are welcome to dress up as ‘rich kids' and high achievers.

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Campus

Stress: One in five students has sought professional help

The students at the University of Copenhagen are (still) hurting. So much so, that nine out of ten have been stressed over the last semester, and one in five has sought professional help. This is according to a new study from the Danish Association of Masters and PhDs (DM).

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Opinion

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Campus

My job: taster

Belinda Lange of the Department of Food Science co-ordinates a team of professional taste-testers

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Education

How a university computer problem nearly got Mikkel disenrolled (and why the administration says it was his fault)

What started as a problem with the university’s computers during the summer break that made it impossible for Mikkel Klattrup Larsen to get an extension on his bachelor’s project almost turned into a semester-long wait for him to start his master’s. Only a month-long struggle with the administration prevented the worst from happening. Larsen hopes others don’t have to go through what he did

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