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Education

Government offers cash for fast graduates

The Danish Government is ramping up a scheme to curtail the lengthy tradition of the Master’s thesis

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Culture

Top 10 public works

The many building sites in Copenhagen right now have you doing a slalom between holes, excavations, and piles of sand. Here is the University Post hit parade of the most interesting public works going on right now

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Politics

Penkowa: Offices changed, paperwork put in boxes

Her department looked »like a ghost town« said Milena Penkowa, as she came out of her former offices at the Faculty of Health Sciences after her search with lawyers and police from the fraud squad. She is now formally charged by police

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Opinion

Comment: Just give us a call beforehand

University Post / Universitetsavisen write that I had a confrontation with the press, and attempted to prevent press coverage of the police search of Milena Penkowa's former office today. I think that this is a tad over-dramatised

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Politics

Faculty of Health Sciences: No press, please

Head of Communications pointed to »concerns among staff«, as he stopped journalists from following the early morning search of Milena Penkowa's former office

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Politics

Police, lawyers raid Penkowa’s office

Brain scientist brought lawyer and a police escort to secure laboratory rat evidence (updated)

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International

Emotional yo-yo for Japanese postdoc after earthquake

Guest researcher Yukari Yamada had good reason to spend all her waking hours refreshing her browser and watching TV

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International

Fear and trembling in quake-hit Japan

My semester abroad has got off to a rough start, reports a former University of Copenhagen student in Japan. Now, almost a week after the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami, the situation only seems to be getting worse, she reports

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Campus

Campus Catwalk: Comfortably chic vs. computer cute

Semi-finals pits costume connoisseurs from the Faculty of Humanities against a group of typical Computer Science students

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Politics

Minister faced down humanities' protesters

As students continue their action at the southern campus humanities buildings, the Minister of Science made a sudden appearance and criticised universities' administration

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