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This year’s study environment award was awarded during campus day at social science campus CSS. The winner is the ‘crank arm' or Pedalarmen initiative – a volunteer driven cycle workshop, which has students from different study programmes meeting over rusty chains and worn out tubes.

A new treatment concept that uses pulsating electromagnetic fields can cure patients with chronic depression. But, according to the inventor, it is an open question whether Denmark is too conservative for something so new to win over the health system.

Should anthropologists take shamans, spirits and other supernatural phenomena seriously? For some, the idea is absurd, but, as University of Copenhagen anthropologist Morten Axel Pedersen explains, it might not be as far out as it sounds

Inge Lehmann never received the same recognition at home in Denmark that she did abroad. Now, the woman who discovered that the Earth has a solid core has become the first woman has been given the place she deserves alongside the University of Copenhagen’s most towering figures

A new round of budget cuts for Humanities is likely to be felt throughout the faculty. The administration is considering measures ranging from the amount of time staff has for guidance to reduced library services

Swedish/Austrian Simone Schopper pays 9.370 kroner a month in rent for a two-bedroom, 40m2 apartment – no kitchen, with shower – through University of Copenhagen’s Housing Foundation. Far too much, according to the Danish Tenants Organisation who will take up the case with the Housing and Rent Tribunal.

How does a mathematics student and aspiring forensic scientist end up working with victims of torture? Ahlam Chemlali, a master’s student from the University of Copenhagen, has fumbled, changed course and trusted her gut feeling. And along the way, this saved her life.