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7 things you have to see at UCPH on Culture Night

Dead animals, explosions, lectures and hidden corners of UCPH that are normally locked up. Let us be your guide to the Culture Night on 12th October.

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Science

Drinking stories from the Botanical Gardens

Craft breweries have had a breakthrough in terms of draught beer’s traditional hops and malted barley - or so we thought. Until we visited the Nordic Beer Garden in the botanical gardens. Here there is an enormous diversity of plants that have been used for brewing beer in the Nordic countries through the ages. Especially the Vikings were innovative.

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Campus

The good life out on South Campus

In January 2017, theologians, lawyers and information studies moved to South Campus. Before the move, people voiced their protests and concerns. We went out there to give it a once over.

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Science

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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Annonce