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The University of Copenhagen’s (UCPH) Professor Morten Meldal has just been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The University Post talked to the students and staff at the Department of Chemistry who were the first to celebrate with him.
He knows his furniture classics. Kasper Uglebjerg, or just ‘The Owl’ turns up when repairs and maintenance are needed in the university's historic buildings. Meet him here in the University Post series on all of us who are part of the team at UCPH.
Professor of Chemistry at the University of Copenhagen Morten Meldal wins Nobel prize.
Hvis studerende og forskere skal shine på Københavns Universitet, har de brug for et godt støttesystem. Vi kender dem som TAP, det teknisk-administrative personale, som Uniavisen hylder i vores nye serie Holdet.
For decades, the traditional Danish ‘rustur’ intro camp on the medicine programme has been shrouded in mystery and nervous excitement for thousands of new students. But the intro camp community is in transition throughout the country. The same goes for social etiquette and public debate. The University Post followed the intro camp tutors on the medicine programme to find out how an intro camp is organised, and how limits are defined on a study programme that, by definition, crosses people’s limits.
One half of all places on master's degree programmes at Danish universities should be for shorter one-year programmes oriented towards the labour market, with more continuing education opportunities. This is the government’s new reform proposal.
Denmark lags behind its Nordic neighbours in terms of academic freedom. Think tank proposes minimum standards for academic freedom enshrined in Danish university legislation.
For six long months Ole Wæver has been confronted with his misinterpretations of the war in Ukraine. Last Sunday it just got too much for the top political scientist. He responded with a 45-tweet monologue.
48 per cent of students at Danish universities have acquired digital textbooks unlawfully.
