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Two University of Copenhagen scientists are among the winners of this year's Danish elite researcher prize. One of them is Professor Naja Hulvej Rod. She heads a large research project on two million Danish children that has proven that the risk of premature death is 4.5 times higher for people who have experienced severe stress as children.
Lara Osorio is a student of Eastern European Studies and was an intern at the Danish embassy in Kiev. Until two weeks ago. Then she was moved to Bucharest. For her safety.
Ukrainian Olha Lapan lives in Denmark and is doing her second semester of Eastern European studies at the University of Copenhagen. But she would prefer to be somewhere else.
Young researchers are seeing older colleagues stealing the credit for their ideas, data, and analyses.
Some of Denmark's most talented research communicators met up and discussed how to get research out to the general public. Here are some of their best ideas.
When students contribute to research projects, they are often subject to vague agreements. The Practice Committee at the University of Copenhagen has therefore published an advisory checklist to clarify students’ rights.
Jacob Graff Nielsen, who has been dean at the Faculty of Law since 2014, has been reappointed by a unanimous appointment committee. The University Post asked him what he learned from a tumultuous period, and what will happen next.
The start of the semester on a campus without restrictions. A student, a professor, and a plumber talk about what it is like being back on an open South Campus.
Written student evaluations of teaching at Danish universities are a useless ritual that wastes the students’ and the instructors’ time according to a sports professor. Two managers agree that the supervision has gotten out of hand.
