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High hopes for ‘map app’ courses

Geographical information systems, ‘GIS’, are being used for almost everything now, including map applications on smart phones. Students from 14 countries took a course on it

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So what is GIS?

With Geographical Information Systems, known as GIS, you can map everything

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Best year ever for Øresund Aquarium

More paying visitors to the University of Copenhagen's sea-water aquarium in 2012, than in any other year since its creation in 1973

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New medical search engine FindZebra diagnoses rare diseases

FindZebra, co-developed by a University of Copenhagen assistant lecturer diagnoses rare and genetic diseases more accurately

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Memory and identity after the Holocaust

INTERVIEW: Claudia Welz, winner of the Danish elite researcher prize, wants to set up a new research centre. The University Post asked her why

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UCPH man is runner-up at IT summit

Assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science wins second prize at CeBIT innovation awards: his app makes your phone a 'projector'

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30 years of e-mails

And the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen celebrates that it was the first to send an e-mail over the Atlantic. Join the celebration on Monday, and discover one of campus' greatest tales - not without crooks and heroes

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Running tired? No wonder, it is your brain

Scientists have found missing link to why brains get tired when the body exercises. Cheating athletes should watch out

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Top historian in Copenhagen

Author of multiple books on empires and imperialism, John Darwin, to give lecture on Wednesday. Decolonization has had its limits, he says to the University Post

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Hands on learning in DIY biology competition

iGEM competition allows students to use knowledge learnt in school in real life, all disciplines welcome to participate

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