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At Beyoncé course: “Some people think that this subject does not belong at university"

A new course at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies has sparked a debate. The University Post was there for the first class of ‘Beyoncé, gender and race’

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Opinion

When will we get a complete UCPH smoking ban?

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Science

University of Copenhagen now revokes Milena Penkowa’s doctorate

The Academic Council of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) has deprived neuroscientist Milena Penkowa of her doctorate in medicine. Penkowa writes on Facebook that she will fight to keep her degree and that she will take UCPH to court.

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Education

10 things I should have known before I started university

Go to re-examination, forget about your grades, and make demands. At the university, there are many new things to deal with, and one is easily overwhelmed. Here, an experienced student tells what she wishes she had known, when she was on the threshold of student life.

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Science

Quantum computer: Microsoft now on campus

A dozen Microsoft employees are currently working with scientists at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH). The goal is to build the first functioning quantum computer. At the University of Copenhagen alone, Microsoft has invested a three-digit million (DKK) amount.

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Education

Summer University: Making UCPH relevant to the outside community

Copenhagen Summer University, for specialists and managers, came to an end the 24th of August. It is a program held partly in order to prove that the research done at UCPH is relevant for the outside community. So, is UCPH still relevant?

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Campus

Students stressed out over the race for grades

Every second student at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) experiences stress ‘often’ or ‘very often’ according to a new study from the Danish Association of Masters and PhDs DM. It is especially the examinations and the struggle for good grades that is the stress factor.

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Campus

Student life is also hula hoops and kayaks

The students’ sports programme at the University of Copenhagen offers 270 different sports, ranging from kayakking to hula hoop teams. See the photos for inspiration and sign up if you want to join in.

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Science

Why does a plant that dyes red, have a name that means 'blue'?

Mikkel Nørtoft solves the riddles of language. As a student of Indo-European Studies, he uses linguistics, archaeology and botany to find out where we come from.

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Education

Rectors enrolling speech 2017 was in English all the way

When Rector Henrik C. Wegener gave his enrolling speech at UCPH, he encouraged Danish students to invite the internationals to a candle light dinner to introduce newcomers to Danish hygge.

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