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Isabelle Augenstein is Denmark's youngest female professor

She googled her way to finding out that she is the country's youngest woman with the title of professor. She knows there is still gender bias in the world of research

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Politics

Danish general election: At the University of Copenhagen debate, most students were still undecided

There was a nice cache of votes up for grabs when a cross-section of Danish politicians turned up at the UCPH Ceremonial Hall for the election debate. The non-committed voters dominated the audience.

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Politics

Crisis researcher: If the last Danish election was a ‘climate’ election, then this one is a ‘crisis’ election

The Danish election campaign has been packed with crisis rhetoric, and a debate over whether there should be a broad centrist coalition as an emergency response. Crisis researcher and assistant professor at the Department of Anthropology Kristoffer Albris believes that this has less to do with any real necessity, and more to do with an attempt to gain power.

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Science

How much virus is there in the supermarket, in the gym, and on the city benches?

Did you know that you might pick up your next bout of flu from a cash dispenser? Two medical students helped set up a study that looks at where we get infected with influenza and other viruses.

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Working environment

Top scientist: »The University of Copenhagen can become the world’s best university with only a few, simple, tweaks«

The science adventurer Eske Willerslev went to Cambridge as a high-profile, yet browbeaten Copenhagener. Now he returns with a clarion call: We should bring the pride back to UCPH. And it starts with ceremonies, rituals and gilded diplomas.

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Politics

Professor of rhetoric: Danish election campaign will be ugly

Mette Frederiksen appeals directly to the general (white) population. And she is a skilled rhetorician. But she also re-hashes the use of myths. And this mythmaking will increase as the election campaign progresses. This is what professor of rhetoric Lisa Storm Villadsen reads out of the Danish Prime Minister's address at the opening of parliament.

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International

University of Copenhagen sinks to 114th place on Times ranking

Denmark's oldest university is no longer in the top 100 on the Times Higher Education World University Rankings

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Culture

Academic showbiz — report from the Copenhagen Science SLAM

How do you turn your scientific passion for faeces transplants in mice into something appetizing for a general audience? Penille Jensen, who does research on intestinal bacteria, goes to the Copenhagen Science SLAM, and the University Post tags along.

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Science

Nobel Prize: »Now we might get real funding, and avoid quick loans«

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.

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The Team

»The university's coolest pieces of furniture are in the central administration buildings«

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.

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