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Polar researcher’s wild workplace

ADVENT CALENDAR 2016 – For a polar researcher, the concept of field work has a completely different meaning. See the photos and read up on life as a polar researcher over the month of December.

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Science

The ice fjord spits icebergs out into Disko Bay

ADVENT CALENDAR 2016 – Sometimes it is difficult to put a sight into words. Enjoy the photos and news from Greenland leading up to Christmas Eve

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Science

Blæsedalen reveals the carbon balance in the Arctic

ADVENT CALENDAR 2016 – A few kilometres from Arctic Station, researchers are investigating the carbon balance in the Arctic. Enjoy photos and coverage from Greenland leading up to Christmas Eve.

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Campus

Queues to do sports in Copenhagen's few facilities

CAMPUS SPORT - With waiting lists of 1,600 at the start of September, the University Studenter-Gymnastik (USG) is oversubscribed many times over. More facilities are needed to increase participation and boost the University’s reputation.

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Science

Big Ben

Nobel prize winner: In a corner office at the Niels Bohr Institute there sits a Nobel prize winner surrounded by stacks of books and journals

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Science

Nature: Sacking of Thybo the result of a harmful UCPH corporate culture

The good news is that University of Copenhagen is in the journal Nature again. The bad news is that it is in the form of a leading article that slams UCPH for the sacking of Professor Hans Thybo

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Politics

Danish People’s Party wants to shut down University of Copenhagen prayer room

Muslims should not have spaces made available to them in public buildings in Denmark, says MP Marie Krarup, who claims an interfaith 'retreat room' on South Campus, KUA is 'really Islamic’.

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Politics

Loss turned into profit – so why cut another DKK 200 million, say staff

A budgeted DKK 132 million loss has turned out to be a profit of DKK 80 million. Yet UCPH is still cutting DKK 200 million. Employees asking why

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Education

In Sweden where the grass is greener

Four Danish students talk about why they have chosen to study at Lund University on the other side of the Øresund, in Sweden instead of the University of Copenhagen: They point to interdisciplinarity, and the freedom to select your own education from 2,000 courses

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Science

More than a thousand scientists sign Thybo protest

Scientists from throughout the world are signing a protest against the sacking of Hans Thybo, which they call a 'threat to academic freedom'. Controversies like the Thybo case may affect the University's ranking position, says THE-ranking editor

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