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Film: Red lights in the sky

On Monday you can see the film 'Hundred year hunt for the Red Sprite', a 42 minute film by Peter McLeish, which documents one of the most unexpected and exciting scientific findings in the atmosphere during the late 20th century. Peter mcLeish will also give a talk about the phenomenon

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Campus

50 jobs axed at Faculty of Life Sciences

The Faculty of Life Sciences is the first faculty to name which employees will lose their jobs due to economic cutbacks at the University of Copenhagen

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Science

Designing the bike-friendly city

A new research project at the Faculty of Life Sciences will show architects how urban areas can be designed to encourage city dwellers to choose bicycles as their preferred mode of transport. The project has been granted DKK 13 million by the Danish Council for Strategic research

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Culture

Art and physics collide at Niels Bohr

A new light sculpture transmits live signals from the Large Hadron Collider experiment in Switzerland to Niels Bohr Institute's facade on Blegdamsvej

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Campus

Student Café in January

The Student Café on Købmagergade is a must for new international students. Studenterhuset, as it is called in Danish, opens 8 January with International Café every Wednesday and Happy Hour on Fridays from 12-19. See the full January programme here.

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Campus

New internationals: From airport to auditorium

Still carrying suitcases and free maps of the city centre, this semester’s newly arrived international students gathered yesterday at the Faculty of Social Sciences for their first orientation meeting

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Opinion

Comment: Losing Hopenhagen

The voices of the developing countries are unheard at COP 15, writes Mongolian University of Copenhagen student, Batzul Gerelsaikhan, in a letter to the University Post

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Science

Mammoths had more time

Woolly mammoths and other megafauna may have traversed the North American plains for much longer than previously thought. Scientists have used break-through methods to date DNA material sealed in Alaskan permafrost

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Politics

No miracles at the Department of Biology

The staff at the Department of Biology took it with a healthy amount of calm and gallows humour, as the Head of the Department explained that a lot of people will have to be let go for the second year in a row. DKK 16 million will need to be saved this time

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Politics

Pachauri talks climate for beginners

When chairman of a Nobel Prize winning institution talks about climate change, you expect it to be inspiring. Unfortunately, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri of the IPCC, speaking at the University of Copenhagen Tuesday, failed to deliver

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