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Chatty PhD students discuss vaccines, gender and antibiotics on new podcast

Media often dumb down on scientific subjects. But they don’t need to: people are, actually, quite smart, say two microbiologist PhDs from the University of Copenhagen. They have started a podcast.

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Campus

Full text of speech by Rector at 2021 UCPH matriculation

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People

Copenhagen professor gets highest academic distinction in mathematical physics

Jan Philip Solovej has been awarded the prestigious Henri Poincaré award, putting him on a list of pioneers in his field.

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Coronavirus

Jens Lundgren: More extreme statements and strange theories now

Many people have found what he said useful during difficult times, according to a top professor and now government adviser. Discouraging, though, has been the encounter with »the dark side of Denmark«. And then there was the mink issue ...

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Campus

New innovation centre to help student and scientist start-ups

Hot desks and office space now available for those who want to be their own boss. Long upward trend in student and scientist entrepreneurs coming out of the University of Copenhagen

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Politics

Jesper Petersen is the new Danish Minister for Higher Education and Science

The former political spokesman for the Social Democratic Party replaces Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen, who is to be Minister of Culture.

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Education

Lecturer of the year at the Faculty of Science gives his students limericks and butterflies

In only a few years, Troels C. Petersen's course in statistics at the Niels Bohr Institute has become the most popular on North Campus. His dedication and teaching-style attracts students from throughout the university, and he has now been elected Lecturer of the Year at the Faculty of Science.

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Education

This is how she helped first-year law students bond with each other — online

With the university in a state of emergency, Wendy Meng saw her task as improving her students' well-being

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People

Eske Willerslev to quit the Board and leave Copenhagen

Professor Eske Willerslev is moving to Cambridge, with 80 per cent of his employment at the British university from now on. He steps down from the University of Copenhagen’s governing board.

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Academic life

»I felt that the work was the most important thing in the world. But the coffee tastes better now«

A bad backache one Christmas Eve on a Swedish farm had Marie Bruvik Heinskou changing tack. Because even though she was awarded a coveted permanent position as associate professor in sociology, the price for working as a researcher was just too high.

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