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Whether you are going for a run or commuting to uni - podcasts always come in handy. We talked to two podcast experts. They recommended 18 podcasts.
A new report comparing freedom of research across 28 EU universities has ranked Denmark in 24th place. According to several experts, the university act does not adequately protect the academic freedom of researchers.
Student culture reporter Léa Severino has scoped out the museum scene around Copenhagen and recommends four hygge-rated day trips for you and a friend.
She is the unofficial University of Copenhagen fundraising champion. Ulla Wewer describes her 11 years as Dean of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences as a 'golden age'. We asked her how she does it.
Michelle Jensen managed, despite her mental disability, to go through the first year of her agricultural economics studies in the prescribed time. Yet she fears she may be forced to drop out if she now applies for dispensation for a delay. After the Study Progress Reform, Danish universities do not often give students with disabilities extra time to complete the studies, as this would set off financial penalties.
It took the workshop for fine mechanics three days to build a low-tech apparatus to cut hard grains of the barley plant into millimetre-thin slices so nutrition scientists could investigate their properties.
More and more academics have to make do with short-term jobs. So many, that the temporarily hired are the largest group of researchers at the University of Copenhagen. Now they are organizing themselves, and demanding better working conditions. They say it will benefit research.
Signe Lund-Sørensen designer grafiske løsninger til KU's websider.
By combining measurements of gravitational waves and observations of light, the scientists have discovered and described a clash between two neutron stars. Analyses of light from the explosion - called a kilonova - show the creation of heavy elements, solving an older scientific problem.
See what the different salary groups earn at the University of Copenhagen
