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Here are five important dates to remember, Just to make sure your new life as a university student is off to a good start.
The University of Copenhagen has a women’s world champion in taekwondo as one of its students. Eva Sandersen is a student of pharmacy and balances her demanding sport with a full-time degree programme.
After two boom years with record numbers of applicants and admissions to the University of Copenhagen it is now going the other way. Almost 500 fewer new students will be enrolled this September. But the trend does not have management worried.
Some Danish politicians fear that universities will end up being as ‘woke’ as those in the United States. But what is really happening at US universities right now?
Sebastian Dall Mayoni and Jonathan Transbøl started work at the University Post as full-time journalists on 1 August.
»We are very sad to learn that Ben Mottelson passed away on 13 May 2022. He was a remarkable human being and physicist, and his deep thinking, warm personality, contagious enthusiasm, playfulness and laughter will be sorely missed,« write several of Ben Mottelson's former colleagues in their obituary of the Nobel Prize winner from Copenhagen‘s Niels Bohr Institute.
We will be back 8 August in time for the start of the autumn semester 2022.
The Niels Bohr Institute's collaboration with NATO was a top-down decision and it threatens the university's research independence. Five of the department’s researchers now take a stand against the partnership.
Can you safeguard critical international research while collaborating with NATO? Some employees at the Niels Bohr Institute are critical of the new co-operation with the defence alliance. But their arguments are rejected by management.
