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He is a »big Kendrick Lamar fan,« he says referring to the US rapper and songwriter. He plays jazz and tennis in his spare time, and he is still trying to find out what it actually means to be a university director. But Søren Munk Skydsgaard says he is fortunate that it is precisely at the University of Copenhagen that he has landed the job.
On a course on the Sociology programme at the University of Copenhagen, students have been using ChatGPT to understand and interact with theory in new ways. It has lifted the students' academic level, according to the instructor.
Last autumn he was honoured with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. But the next big discoveries risk being smothered under a layer of research funding red tape, according to Morten Meldal.
The chairman of Conservative Students discovered Friday morning 12 May that their offices had been vandalized. A politically motivated attack, according to the student organisation. Management has come out in support of them.
The internationally recognised professor and gender thinker Judith Butler visited the University of Copenhagen 4 May to do a guest lecture on climate sorrow. The star academic called on the audience to engage in climate action rather than climate paralysis.
The KU Book Club meets up every other Sunday in the old library on Fiolstræde street in central Copenhagen to exchange views on the 100 pages of literature they have read since their last meeting. Staff, international, and Danish students are welcome.
Vivian Kvist Johannsen is to head the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management from 1 May. She says one of her most important tasks is to help make sure everyone can make sustainable decisions.
The ‘Students against the Occupation’ group wants the University of Copenhagen to withdraw from its investments in Israeli settlements.
Many students are baffled by guidelines on avoiding plagiarism. Here are a few tips from an expert.
