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Sonning Prize 2025: Molecular gastronomy should be for the people, not just for the posh foodies

The recipient of the 2025 Sonning Prize, French chemist Hervé This, has helped transform our understanding of food. His innovative approach to food preparation bridges scientific disciplines — and he hopes his methods can help prevent future hunger.

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Dental divides: Politics and history of teeth on show at Medical Museion

Medical Museion opens a special exhibition on teeth, revealing how the state of our mouths connects to body, class and identity.

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Art experts puzzled as departing rector insists on outdoor bronze bust

No painting, but a bronze bust for Henrik C. Wegener. An unexpected choice, say several UCPH art experts.

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Culture

A welcome to the 546th year of new University of Copenhagen students

On Friday 23 August the UCPH managers welcomed the 2024 cohort of new students. The students loved the combination of bling, self-deprecating humour, and sense of community.

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Marina Abramović: Free yourself from the fear and embrace the pain

She has starved herself in the name of art. But as we speak she is »famished«. We met up with performance artist Marina Abramović when she received the Sonning Prize in Copenhagen. The interview didn't go quite as expected.

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Potion or poison? New exhibition on the turbulent history of margarine

Danes used to have the world record in eating it. It was the slayer of the blue whale. It possibly killed even more humans. And it was a harbinger of our times. Medical Museion now has a exhibition on margarine.

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Racist mural covered at University of Copenhagen Friday bar venue after complaints

Management at the Faculty of Science will now keep a 100-year-old mural by Danish cartoonist and humorist Storm P. covered up after more than 100 critical emails. According to students, the motif is racist and should not be in a Friday bar. After initially rejecting the complaints, the faculty director now supports covering the mural.

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She went to Egypt and wrote a novel about »an orientalist self-absorbed bitch«

Martha Flyvholm Tode followed her University of Copenhagen programme while in Cairo. The city overwhelmed her, and now she has written a book about a young Dane's encounter with the Middle East. It is about knowing your privileges and being challenged on your view of the world and humanity.

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The University of Copenhagen’s beautiful library is finally open to the public

The beautiful old university library has been almost deserted for 14 years. This has now changed. The general public can now experience the historic architecture.

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Culture

Message from the Commemoration Ceremony: Keep your hands off the university!

The University of Copenhagen's Commemoration 2022 was marked by a strange combination of ceremony and activism.

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