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Anja C. Andersen: I've now got a more elegant platform

Anja C. Andersen has been promoted to professor with communication responsibility at the Niels Bohr Institute.

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Politics

Rebecca won the UCPH election

Rebecca Ingemann Madsen from the Student Council won the student seat in the University Board for this year's UCPH election.

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Politics

The numbers war: This is why they are cutting research and education

A war is currently being playing out behind closed doors in parliament at Christiansborg. The weapons are not bombs and bullets, but numbers and calculations. The outcome can be crucial for the future of universities.

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Campus

What the dean learned from his boxing match

John Renner Hansen describes his unconventional trajectory to an academic career, where he needed both a Plan A and Plan B, especially in his duties managing scientists and staff as the dean of Faculty of Science.  

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Campus

Crackdown on international researchers in Denmark creates frustation at UCPH

Recently, non-Danish researchers have been reported to the police for violating the terms of their work and residence permits. This has created a feeling of uncertainty and fear among scientific staff at UCPH. We just do what we are supposed to do, says UCPH professor.

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Campus

This is where youth housing will be built

Ahead to 2020, 6,000 sets of student housing will be built in the Municipality of Copenhagen. Here is an overview of where they will be built.

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Campus

Triple prize streak for Maersk Tower

The new Maersk Tower near Panum has been awarded three prizes, including the prize for the world’s best research building at the World Architecture Fair.

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Campus

Prize for law students' work on study environment

If the Argument Association at the Faculty of Law had its way, then the law studies would have a less boring reputation.

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Science

The Bohr Legacy

While researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute are close to revolutionizing the world for a second time, they must abandon their historic premises on Blegdamsvej for a new building made of steel and glass and plagued by scandal. Will the move destroy a unique research milieu?

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Education

Bureaucracy, more study progress, and lost millions: The grant reform for UCPH

The University of Copenhagen (UCPH) stands to lose DKK 13 million a year with a new grant distribution policy. This is a loss that UCPH can live with. Far worse, says the rector, is the continued annual two per cent grant cut, the risk of increased bureaucracy, and that politicians are now meddling with the inner workings of the university.

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