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Minik Rosing gets the Rungstedlund prize

Geology professor from the University of Copenhagen is the winner of the Rungstedlund Prize, which is awarded by the foundation behind the Karen Blixen Museum.

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Science

Morten Rievers Heiberg awarded the Queen's science prize

Professor in Spanish History Morten Rievers Heiberg was awarded the Queen Margrethe II science prize on 18th April. We caught up with him for a Q & A before the ceremony.

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Science

Six UCPH health scientists get DKK 60 million

Six ambitious research managers from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH and their important research projects have each received DKK 10 million to support them in their work.

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Science

Farmers to use insects as their new livestock

Associate professor Nanna Roos wants to create a food production of insects and her first endeavors to achieve this took place in Kenya through the project GREENiNSECT.

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Campus

The Maersk Tower is one of the world's most sustainable laboratory buildings

The laboratories take up most of the space in the 15-storey Maersk Tower and turn it into a real energy drain. Yet through the course of its eight-year-long construction, it has succeeded in implementing many initiatives that save energy and resources

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Science

"Here is the business model of a modern university"

It is not the cash that determines the research at the University of Copenhagen, says Thomas Bjørnholm in a send-off interview with the University Post. He also has a message to young researchers and researching students: You need to be prepared to… leave.

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Science

New research: Children lead to large drop in salaries. For women, that is

A new research project shows that women often take a 30 per cent pay cut when they have children. In the meantime, men’s salary remains basically unaffected. UCPH researcher is behind a project that is to find out what is the cause of the discrepancy

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Science

UCPH professor Anja Groth wins Elite Researcher Prize

Molekylærbiolog Anja Groth fra Biotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC) på KU er én af årets fem modtagere af EliteForsk-prisen.

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Science

The dean who was a dropout

Kirsten Busch Nielsen found her way to theology after a 'productive study crisis' and became the faculty’s first female dean. She wishes the next generation, like hers, had the same freedom to try a course of study before obligating themselves. Because you can’t align your expectations perfectly.

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Science

Nothing is impossible in West Africa

Through 25 years of cooperation in West Africa, Professor at the Department of Food Science Lene Jespersen has collected valuable knowledge of both food science and other cultures.

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