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100,000 people in Denmark are right now infected with influenza A. The illness stranded rhetoric student Eydna and her son in the Faroe Islands

The brainiacs at the Faculty of Life Sciences had a chance to show what they, and - in some cases - plenty of other things, were made of Friday 20 November. See a video from this year's '15 Minutes of Brain'

Most of our food production is based on large-scale cultivation of single crops. We have spent ten thousand years of cultural evolution adopting this practice. Research has now shown that farming ants and termites have been at it for a good millions of years longer

International students in Copenhagen drink more than they do at home

So Erasmus students drink a bit, and alcohol can have serious health consequences. But how much is too much?

Teaching staff at the University of Copenhagen accept the need for more courses taught in English but also fear the consequences for the Danish language

Students can be made part of their discipline, using English terminology, or they can be made part of their society, using their own language. Swedish students illustrate the stark choices

Pharmaceutical staff like English-language teaching - theology and humanities staff don’t

Sociology students have blockaded their department since the early hours of Thursday morning. Protesting cutback plans, they say they will not stop until their demands are met

Thousands of University of Copenhagen employees will be subject to a new multimedia tax from 1 January 2010. Both the university administration and the staff representatives hate it. And the new tax is counterproductive, say employees