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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.
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.
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.
The Danish government wants to increase the total public research funding to DKK 22.2 billion on its budget. But this remains below the 2016 level before the large scale cuts. And the so-called re-prioritization contribution will continue, each year cutting two per cent from the universities’ grants for education.
First, the new Niels Bohr Building should have been completed in 2016, then in 2017, then in 2018. At present, the Danish Building and Property Agency cannot say when the construction will be ready, or how expensive it will be. The University of Copenhagen is considering refusing to take the buildings.
So, for no other reason than the fact that it's good, here is the music video that the tutors from The Faculty of Law have produced as a welcome gift to their new fellow students.
It’s 9:56 am, and the first patient of the day is ready to be operated on. He’s three months old, weighs 190 kilos and is fully anesthetized. The five-person operation team is ready, too. For three of them, the surgery is part of their education.
Anthropology attracts elite students with sky-high grade point averages from their secondary schools. Now the department is to drop all grades from the first year so they can protect the students’ mental health. They need to learn to take chances and learn to make mistakes.
It is the latest huge grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation to UCPH. Researchers are to find new treatments for two types of blood cancer. The development of drugs for these diseases came to a standstill many years ago.
