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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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Culture

Eccentric originals of the Niels Bohr Institute: They stick it out after most of us have given up

The Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen is the setting for an academic and social community of researchers. And it is difficult to leave — even when you hit a pensionable age. At present, 43 active professors and associate professors emeritus have opted out of a well-deserved retirement to volunteer teaching and research in spite of being stuffed into smaller and smaller offices.

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Culture

Academic showbiz — report from the Copenhagen Science SLAM

How do you turn your scientific passion for faeces transplants in mice into something appetizing for a general audience? Penille Jensen, who does research on intestinal bacteria, goes to the Copenhagen Science SLAM, and the University Post tags along.

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Culture

Top scientist Eske Willerslev: »Academics don’t enjoy a unique status in Denmark. But we should celebrate each other«

Eske Willerslev wants to bring back the sense of pride to the University of Copenhagen. He wants to reintroduce rituals and ceremonies to heighten students and staff job satisfaction.

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Culture

»A pearl«: Professor reviews Nobel Prize winner's book on the quirks of physics

The University Post asked physics professor Mogens Høgh Jensen to review the new book 'Inside a murmuration of starlings — the beauty of complex systems' by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Giorgio Parisi.

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Culture

The Neanderthals had climate issues and a high degree of self-awareness

The exhibition ‘Neanderthals’ at the Natural History Museum of Denmark rejects the idea that the Neanderthals extinction was due to some kind of defect in their intellectual abilities. And the exhibition offers an archaeological sensation.

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Culture

Students organise film festival to get us all thinking about world health

Three students talk about their work with the film festival Global Health Film Days. They want to make more people aware of the world's health issues and set off a debate about them.

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Culture

Marianne Stidsen. The final interview

Marianne Stidsen is finished. She has quit her associate professor position at the University of Copenhagen after accusations of plagiarism, and she is now withdrawing from the public debate. But in what she calls her last interview, she says that she leaves in the same high spirits as when she arrived.

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Culture

UCPH Festival 2021 — the pictures

Were you there? See our selection of photos from the wet, but spirited University of Copenhagen party on 17 September 2021.

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Coronavirus

New Covid-19 exhibition shows medical history in the making

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Medical Museion has collected items that tell the story of how Denmark has managed the disease. Although Covid-19 still shapes our everyday lives to some extent, a new exhibition can help us to start processing it, says the exhibition’s curator.

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