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Intro week: who bears responsibility for the pig heads and herring gags?

Is it only individual tutors who should foot the bill when an intro week party goes overboard? Or does the problem run deeper? New research shows that there is a link between introduction week activities and the culture within a specific academic field.

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Culture

Pop culture is really also high culture

It was research on popular culture that got Erik Steinskog into Le Monde and the Washington Post. But his heart and soul is with opera too. It's all a part of the same musical orbit.

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Science

The top UCPH media darlings in 2018

When it comes to getting in the media, the political scientists dominate the University of Copenhagen list, followed by the lawyers and the economists. Here is the list of researchers who are most often quoted in the media.

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Science

Elite teams to carry out research in childhood asthma and cancer

Four new partnerships between the University of Copenhagen and the Capital Region are to bring the latest research in pediatric asthma, cancer, osteoarthritis and child infections out to doctors and patients.

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Science

Animal revelations from thousand-year-old parchments

Professor of bioarchaeology Matthew Collins is in charge of a new research project to investigate thousands of old parchments. It will lead to new insights into the animal husbandry and craftsmanship of the past. Collins can extract data about how people lived by analysing the thousand-year-old proteins.

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Science

The insect mobile: Citizen science

UCPH researchers want 300 Danes to help collect flying insects in huge nets mounted on their cars, transforming them into an “insect mobile.” It will be the first study of its kind in Denmark.

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Science

What’s the use of research if we don’t buy into it?

Two UCPH professors tried to find solutions to address fact denial - from climate change to HPV vaccines - at a popular debate at The People’s Political Festival 2018. We caught up with one of the speakers, Klemens Kappel, after the debate and asked him to elaborate.

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Campus

Two University of Copenhagen professors receive major award

Anne Tybjærg-Hansen and Kristian Helin have received awards from the Kirsten and Freddy Johansen Foundation for their ground-breaking cardiovascular and epigenetics research

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Science

UCPH to consider ethics guidelines on who researchers can co-operate with

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen may now receive funding from anywhere as long as the funds do not come with restrictions to their freedom of research.

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Science

From the US army to Christmas trees: 14 thought-provoking contributors to the University of Copenhagen budget

Researchers at University of Copenhagen (UCPH) have received a approximately DKK 15 billion for 5,092 different ongoing research projects. The newsroom has taken a look at 14 projects that made us think: What? Do they also give money to UCPH?

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