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A new consultant at the University of Copenhagen is to boost equality among genders and among Danish/international researchers.
Universities Denmark is leading the fight against a publishing industry which earns billions from researchers getting access to their own scientific articles. In a complaint, 800 European universities are now asking the EU competition commissioner to put her foot down.
Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme receives the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters’ silver medal for her research on the Old Testament. She knows everything there is to know about what they actually ate in the Bible.
Cancer patients will in the future be able to enjoy 3D-printed and individually customised meals. UCPH researchers are now trying to avoid the whole thing collapsing into a heap.
A University of Copenhagen four-year finance forecast makes for a depressing read. Fewer revenues and increasing costs towards buildings upkeep will lead to less money at hand. University director Jesper Olesen says that the necessary adjustments have been made.
Due to major financial problems the Natural History Museum of Denmark is to be merged with the Department of Biology and faces a round of layoffs. Staff representatives criticise management for not taking timely precautions. According to the Dean at the Faculty of Science, John Renner Hansen, it is only now that they have got the full overview of how bad things were with finances.
The Faculty of Humanities is to go through a new round of cuts. Layoffs cannot be ruled out, says the Dean.
There are two million butterflies in the old scientific collections at the Natural History Museum of Denmark. Now they are to put in a database, and this will reveal patterns in nature over the last 250 years.
290 years ago, all of the University of Copenhagen buildings burnt down, including the university library with all its books. For the university, this is still significant.
The Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences is to cut staff after a series of setbacks that include winning external research projects that drain budgets.
