Universitetsavisen
Nørregade 10
1165 København K
Tlf: 35 32 28 98 (mon-thurs)
E-mail: uni-avis@adm.ku.dk
University of Copenhagen
Independent of management
Section
One rock out of place could be fatal for a lunar lander. In 2029, the UCPH-led satellite Máni will map out safe landing sites.
Antisemitism is surging online — University of Copenhagen historian is now to lead a new research and outreach initiative
75 years after Niels Bohr’s open letter to the United Nations, researchers warn that science — once again — is caught up in a collaboration and security dilemma. New geopolitics initiative wants to help the university find its way in an era where research has to be both open and protected.
A new AI model with contributions from the University of Copenhagen can predict the onset of illness across entire populations. But it also raises ethical questions about data security — and about people’s right not to know which diseases might affect them in the future.
Stories of a deeply polarised United States are overblown. Just 1.1 per cent of Americans want an ethnically homogeneous society. This is according to a new study led by psychologist Séamus Power of the University of Copenhagen.
Criticism is the driver of scientific progress. But what happens when debates in the media are distorted, and researchers are held accountable for views that they have never expressed? Scholar of Islamic studies Jesper Petersen says that he’s seen it all.
Oluf Borbye Pedersen has shown that humans are temporary guests on a planet that is actually ruled by bacteria. His discovery of gut microbes faced fierce resistance — but is now patented by the University of Copenhagen.
Denmark enters the global race for chip production — the University of Copenhagen and French company RIBER to build a new manufacturing plant in the Niels Bohr Building.
In 1936, seismologist Inge Lehmann was the first in the world to prove that the Earth has a solid inner core. She earned widespread international acclaim — but in Denmark, she received neither the title nor the recognition she deserved.
If University of Copenhagen's 38,000 students are representative, 1,300 of them have the skin condition plaque psoriasis. A lot of people have it, but current treatments are impractical. Two UCPH researchers have developed a clever alternative.
