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Overview: This is how Danish universities will reopen

Scientists can most likely return to their labs in June, and study programmes will most likely reopen in August.

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Education

Two years was enough. Dean quits Faculty of Humanities. Management team up for replacement

After just two years on the job as dean of a hard-hit-by-budget-cuts Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen, Jesper Kallestrup is leaving his post to become a professor in Scotland. According to the Rector of the University of Copenhagen, Kallestrup has »attempted to discuss« the difficult choices that the faculty faces.

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International

Difficult conversation coming up for long distance couple

While Duncan, in Copenhagen, is willing to go anywhere to pursue a career and a life, his partner Pete in Edinburgh has, so far, preferred to stay put

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Coronavirus

Allan Randrup Thomsen speaks to reporters non-stop: »I'm really scared of making a fool of myself«

Few people had heard of the virologist Allan Randrup Thomsen in February, but since March he has become one of the most cited researchers in the Danish media. This puts him in a vulnerable position, especially because he talks out about a virus that no one really knows.

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International

Careers split apart, but marriage held

Now Javiera Aravena-Calvo is, like her husband, a scientist in Copenhagen. This is after career twists that included volunteering in a lab in Israel.

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International

Career abroad, or family: That was the question

She was an only child and felt the need to return to China after finishing her PhD in Barcelona. But her family urged her to focus on her science.

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International

Of 26 spouses, only two were men. He was one of them

Ricardo now has a job as an engineer after following his wife to Copenhagen for her academic career

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Campus

Photo story: Scientists and students have been sent home, but the university is abuzz

Children on scooters and bikes; teenagers; and older people out on their walks. They are all filling out the open void that is the University of Copenhagen after students and staff have been sent home. The University Post visited the university's squares and parks during the Danish quarantine.

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Academic life

All alone and non-productive in the home office? These 8 websites can help

Has your willpower been sapped by corona? Do not despair. The world wide web can give you everything from a real, human, study-buddy to the sounds of a reading room in your living room.

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Coronavirus

Student café Studenterhuset hard hit by corona crisis

Copenhagen’s student café Studenterhuset grapples with an uncertain financial future as the Covid-19 closures and restrictions continue. There are still online events, and the cafés director hopes for financial support from foundations.

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