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When the University of Copenhagen went online in no time

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Coronavirus

Kirstine Bukhave has an underlying condition: »I just can't cope with anything beyond the next two weeks«

24-year-old political science student Kirstine Bukhave has a weakened immune system and almost panicked when she heard that the government would shut down large parts of Danish society. Around this time, she had been surrounded by about 100 people.

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Academic life

Medical students had to wait 7 hours for a response on Friday bar coronavirus case

Students, who are now in quarantine, attended classes on campus and worked in hospitals, for several days after they attended teaching and a Friday bar with a coronavirus-infected student.

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Politics

Three forces holding back women researchers at the University of Copenhagen

Hint: One of them is leaky pipes.

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Science

Scientists working together in race to make COVID-19 vaccine

There are many paths towards an effective coronavirus vaccine. A University of Copenhagen researcher explains how an EU-supported project is taking one of them.

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Academic life

Taking a class with the best teacher at UCPH 2019

She is celebrated as the best teacher at the University of Copenhagen in 2019. We took part in a lecture in literary history full of references to popular culture, fantasy and science fiction.

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Science

UCPH took 3 out of the 5 elite research awards

A sociologist, a biologist and an archaeologist will each get DKK 1.2 million for achieving surprising breakthroughs at a young age.

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Campus

New name added to Spring Festival lineup

The Spring Festival has now published half of the musical lineup for this year's event

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Education

Just named 'Teacher of the Year'. In six months, her contract expires

Research assistant Maria Damkjær loves cheap and ugly books, and the students love her teaching in British literary history. »If I can't continue at the university, I will have to work through some grief, because who am I then?« she says.

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Other

What it’s like being a full-time student and bringing up a child at the same time

»In terms of your studies, people start expecting less of you. That’s very generous and considerate, but it also made me expect less of myself,« says 24-year-old Alice Bier Zandén. She is a student of art history at the University of Copenhagen, mother of a three-year-old girl, and currently expecting her second child.

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