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Staff reps play hard ball

No new prorector while university employees are being fired, insist staff representatives on the University of Copenhagen's General Collaboration Committee. Defying management plans, they refuse to nominate a candidate for the job

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Politics

Why us? Deans attempt to explain in newsletters

Toxic issue of staff cuts in the most-affected Science and Life faculties is taken on by the deans

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Science

Kierkegaard thinkers team up with the theologians

Three new PhD grants for Kierkegaard research mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Danish thinker in 2013. This was announced at a ceremony marking the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre’s merger with the University of Copenhagen

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Culture

Student fights high prices with Fashion Week event

One international student is tired of ridiculously overpriced restaurants and impossible exclusive guest lists. She has introduced the concept of guerilla dining to Copenhagen.

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Science

Copenhagen scientists map genes of extinct human

Ancient Greenlander ‘Inuk’ was bald, dark, and his forefathers were from Siberia, scientists say

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Campus

Intranet not for the prudish

In April 2010, the University of Copenhagen introduces a new intranet to replace PUNKT KU. You can now vote to choose one of five, uhh...original names put forward by staff and students.

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Campus

California students taking it easy

More time spent on socializing than classes and homework, study in California shows

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Campus

Are we alone in the universe?

Is there life on other planets? If so, how can we detect it? Find out for yourself on 24 February.

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Science

Aliens? Why not, says Canadian student presenter

Astrophysics student tours Danish high schools with talk of life on other planets

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Science

New professor at »aging« exhibition

Bacteria you can eat, a PhD disaster, and the link beween yeast and a cure for cancer. All delivered by Oxford professor Ian Hickson in his inaugural lecture at the Centre for Healthy Aging

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