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After years of preparation, it goes live — UCPH’s new administration takes effect this week
Gry Bartroff Gaihede will celebrate her 25th anniversary as a journalist at the University Post on 1 May. But first, she will step into her new role as editor-in-chief on the medium that she knows better than anyone else.
Relieved and sated. That’s how he describes himself. For eight years, Henrik C. Wegener has led UCPH through major internal transformations and external media storms. It has required patience, he says, and it has been »absolutely incredible.«
In an attempt to fight corruption, students in Serbia are blockading universities and shutting down roads and bridges with demonstrations. According to a student spokesperson, those in power have responded by paying EUR 50 per beaten-up protester.
Albert Schliesser from the Niels Bohr Institute gets the prestigious award for research into quantum phenomena. He is one of five young researchers who are honoured for strengthening Danish-based research at an international level.
Under Katherine Richardson’s leadership, SSC has worked to develop UCPH’s sustainability profile. Now, the centre is closing, and the task is being centralised. The problem, Richardson argues, is that UCPH is currently staffed with nothing but »future intentions.«
The Danish healthcare system is contributing to a massive waste of resources. And in some cases it is directly harming patients, says Professor John Brandt Brodersen. He calls for a paradigm shift and an end to »patchwork solutions« on medical and health education programmes.
As students, they were tour guides at Rosenborg Castle, where visitors were fascinated by a prank chair from the royal court. Now, as two young researchers, they set out to uncover the story behind an elaborate trick.
At one of the smallest study programmes at the University of Copenhagen they feel the great power rivalry up close — both academically and personally.
Several people have fallen into the canal by the Faculty of Law, but those responsible refuse to put up fencing. »It is generally safe to walk around them,« is the official response.
