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Kick off for university football

It is about fun, companionship and serious sport when teams like FC Climacussen and Transcendentalpragmatisk Boldklub clash in the university league

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Politics

UCPH student fighting xenophobia with ... shoes

Vince Libasci, a student at the University of Copenhagen wants to fight what he perceives as a xenophobic agenda in Denmark. He is collecting shoes for the Danish People’s Party (DF) politician Marlene Harpsøe

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Politics

Resigned Maersk Oil CEO will carry on as UCPH board member

STATUS QUO – UCPH chairman Niels Strandberg Pedersen guarantees that board member Jakob Thomasen will not see his place affected by the fact that he is no longer the CEO of Maersk Oil.

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The future of student housing is floating

The Architect Bjarke Ingels has designed student apartments in old shipping containers, which are powered by solar energy and float on a pontoon. The company behind the units, Urban Riggers, will soon open a floating collegium on Kalvebod Brygge for students at the University of Copenhagen.

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Campus

Students show support for professor threatened with dismissal

After 30 years at UCPH, the internationally renowned geology professor Hans Thybo was suspended in the beginning of September and threatened with dismissal. Now, 106 students signed the petition against the suspension.

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Campus

UCPH will not guarantee fossil free investments

The University of Copenhagen will invest DKK 170 million in shares, some of which risks being invested in companies within the oil, coal and gas industries.

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Science

UCPH Professors awarded the Carlsberg Foundation Research Prize

WINNERS – The Carlsberg Foundation’s Research Prize 2016 goes to mathematics professor Tobias Holck Colding and professor of international development law Morten Broberg. Each prize winner will receive DKK one million.

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Campus

An Everest-sized Challenge: Twelve Friday-Bars in one night

An expedition led by University Post student reporter Jack Robinson set out to conquer 12 UCPH Friday-Bars in one night. Would the challenge prove too monumental?

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Education

We went from hard-working researchers to time-wasters in 1.5 hours

The Department of Nordic Research will see more than a third of its funding cut and will be merged with a neighbouring institute. Four employees are protesting against the cutbacks and the Dean’s portrayal of them as ‘parasites’

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Education

Dean: “It’s not true that I portrayed NFI employees as time-wasters”

Dean Ulf Hedetoft responds to critcism from four employees at the Department of Nordic Research (NFI) following cutbacks and an upcoming merger with the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics.

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