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Five do-it-yourself chemistry experiments

Ever wanted to be a chemist? Chemists can create substances that are wonderful, horrible, or anything in between. They examine compound structures and break or create new bonds

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Coronavirus

17 positives for corona at the University of Copenhagen since 1 August

Corona-positive students’ classmates are all sent home to self-isolate and get themselves tested

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Science

Five science experiments for the kitchen

With this new set of do-it-yourself biology experiments we have you making your own blue cheese, ripening your green tomatoes, and more

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Politics

Zoom can abuse university data, IT union warns

Video and audio files from online teaching on Zoom can be exploited by Chinese government agencies, according to the Danish IT trade union PROSA. The University of Copenhagen maintains that it trusts that Zoom complies with legal agreements.

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International

University of Copenhagen surges upwards on Times ranking

UCPH finally puts the 2016 debacle behind it and bounces back up the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Ranking

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Education

They select different degree programmes: Are women and men born with different interests?

A controversial theory claims that women in progressive and wealthy countries like Denmark opt out of IT, mathematics and engineering because they, by nature, are less interested in these subjects than men are. But a Danish professor in the field of cognitive neuroscience says that the research does not support this conclusion.

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Coronavirus

Students at online matriculation: »OK. This thing might get awkward«

For the first time ever, new students at the University of Copenhagen were only welcomed digitally - via video. Four students followed the ceremony from their couch out in the suburbs.

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Campus

Tutor infected with corona – students permitted to go ahead with intro programme

Six additional students on the rhetoric programme at the University of Copenhagen are in self-quarantine. Faculty director 'certain' that more corona cases will be forthcoming, but ready to handle them.

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Academic life

No Friday bars, no parties at the University of Copenhagen before the autumn break

The University of Copenhagen has just released guidelines for social events on campus with effect from the start of this semester. It will be a socially-distanced and truncated fall season.

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Education

Corona pandemic has exchange student numbers down by 55 per cent at the University of Copenhagen

Many international students withdrew their applications to the University of Copenhagen during the pandemic. »We can still maintain a good internationalisation of our study programmes,« university states.

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