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The Novo Nordisk Foundation has put billions into the University of Copenhagen. Now one of the top people from the foundation’s company Novo Nordisk has been made the new chairman of the University’s board. What is the significance of the marriage between the university and the pharmaceutical industry?
Look up. Play the jazz saxophone. The inspiration can come from the strangest places, says UCPH’s international star lawyer, professor and center director Mikael Rask Madsen.
Alternating groups of students from the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies have come together over the last three years to set up an annual musical written and produced by the students themselves. This year is no exception. We met a few members of the team.
After massive criticism, Minister of Higher Education and Research Søren Pind has changed his plans for controlling the country's universities. Students and staff will still have a place on the committee that is to appoint the chairman and external board members. But the agreement still curbs university autonomy, say critics.
UCPH classical philologist and Medieval history scholar awarded prestigious Gad Rausing Prize last month
AV AV AV, Bikstok, Bisse and Sort Sol headline the UCPH Spring Festival on Friday 5 May, at Universitetsparken
Master’s students thinking about plagiarising material for their thesis ought to think again. The University of Copenhagen will soon be checking all theses using an improved comparison system
We were allowed to shadow the University of Copenhagen's new rector on an ordinary working day. He was busy. Also busy sitting still.
