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Leaner, greener food production at Life

'LeanGreenFood', a new international network based at the Faculty of Life Sciences, will train food scientists to take account of social and environmental aspects when developing new food production processes

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Politics

Only three women in Denmark wear burqa

The number of Muslim women in Denmark who wear the burqa can be counted on one hand, according to the newly released results of a new study conducted by the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Cross-Cultural and Religious Studies

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Campus

Forest and Landscape faces drastic cutbacks

Forest and Landscape at the Faculty of Life Sciences has axed ten jobs. The centre has bid farewell to one tenth of its total workforce over the past few years

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International

Protection demanded for international students

The murder of an Indian student in Melbourne has led to calls for an international agency to protect overseas students, at the World Universities Forum conference in Switzerland

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Science

Killer whales come in two sizes

A three-year research collaboration between the University of Copenhagen and Aberdeen University reveals that a killer whale is not simply a killer whale. There are two distinct types that grow to different sizes, and have different feeding habits

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Culture

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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