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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
Come and join in when the Copenhagen Winter Pride takes over the Studenterhuset and fills it up with a rainbow-coloured mix of events.
Staff reps at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) are preparing their colleagues for a possible strike and are calling on them to sign up to the AC union to get strike pay.
The unexpected revelation of a type of clam out in the straights between Denmark and Sweden has put the Øresund Aquarium in turmoil. Maybe there are more out there. A diver is to investigate the site, which is being kept a secret, like the lark's nest in Harald Bergstedt's song.
The Greenland ice sheet is a poster child of climate change. But in the Nordics, what happens in West Antarctica and Alaska has a more profound impact on local sea level rise. Sounds strange? Here’s how it works.
Employees with psychological health issues say they are being ill-treated by their workplaces. They have the highest risk of being fired, according to research projects from the Department of Psychology at UCPH.
The University of Copenhagen needs to sharpen up its freedom of research wording on future contracts with external parties. This is according to the supervising authority the Danish Agency for Institutions and Educational Grants.
The Faculty of Law had forgotten to include the spring season’s national holidays and had put course instruction and exams in the same time slot. The solution – moving all the exams by up to 5 weeks – has set off a series of new problems: Exams are now on top of each other, and students fear that it will impact their grades.
The Faculty of Science at the University of Copenhagen has done well this year in terms of getting funding from the Villum Fonden's Young Investigator Programme. 10 out of the 18 young grant recipients are from this faculty.
The Minister of Higher Education and Research is considering increasing dentistry student admissions. But this requires more instructors at the Department of Odontology.
