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It sparked quite some amusement at the law faculty in June when rain poured in through one of the skylights at Søndre Campus. Then, when rector Henrik Wegener visited on 19 September, things went downhill again.
The University of Copenhagen has announced its annual elections! Here is all about the boards and committees of UCPH that staff and students are voting for in this year's election.
Professor Jørgen Agerholm from the Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, who has researched hereditary cattle diseases since 1989, has uncovered a completely new disease due to a mutation in a breeding stud.
A DKK 2.6 million apparatus was originally purchased for research in the oil industry. Today, chemistry lecturer Tue Hassenkam uses it to sniff out the birth of life on Earth. The device has already played an important role in a discovery that he published in 'Nature' in July, and now he dreams of looking for traces of life on Mars.
University of Copenhagen student ambassador Bo Gad Køhlert says that disciplinary cases should be processed faster. And guidelines on what is permitted, and what is not, for exams should be improved.
In a response to Mette Reissmann of the Social Democrats (S), the Minister for Higher Education and Research Søren Pind has specified what the Danish government's two per cent so-called re-prioritization contributions will cost the different educational institutions. The University of Copenhagen is, by far, hit the hardest.
Morten Nyboe Tabor, who teaches at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), has abolished long lectures and passive lessons in front of a blackboard. Instead he has put discussions, quizzes, and task solving on the syllabus. Not everyone is excited about it.
Economics students organised a tongue-in-cheek 'Men's Friday Bar' with beer pong, girl bartenders to help the men vomit, and a call to throw girls over your shoulders and take them home 'like the little economics girls they are'. It has set off a debate over sexism at UCPH. Again.
