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At the Faculty of Science, male teaching staff find it easier to spot talent among male students

Female students have a harder time being perceived as talented than their male classmates by male instructors. Researchers stumble upon a subconcious bias in teaching settings at one faculty.

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Education

Lecturer of the year at the Faculty of Science gives his students limericks and butterflies

In only a few years, Troels C. Petersen's course in statistics at the Niels Bohr Institute has become the most popular on North Campus. His dedication and teaching-style attracts students from throughout the university, and he has now been elected Lecturer of the Year at the Faculty of Science.

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Education

No coincidence. Causality professor named SCIENCE Teacher of the Year

Professor Jonas Peters has been recognised by SCIENCE students as an inspiring teacher of causality and mathematical models.

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Campus

What the dean learned from his boxing match

John Renner Hansen describes his unconventional trajectory to an academic career, where he needed both a Plan A and Plan B, especially in his duties managing scientists and staff as the dean of Faculty of Science.  

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Science

Universities share part of blame for rising distrust in scientists

Disbelief in scientific knowledge is spreading and the universities are partly to blame. That is according to the organizers of a large conference for scientific journalism set to take place in June in Copenhagen.

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Science

“The existence of gravity should not be open to political debate”

On 22 April, scientists all over the globe will march in co-ordinated protests in 394 cities. Ian Bearden, a physicist and professor at UCPH, is organising the march in Copenhagen because he wants his children to inherit a liveable planet.

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Education

The study programme that is driving people nuts

The bachelor's degree in animal science and the master’s degree in animal science are part of the same programme of study. Yet they belong, administratively, to two different faculties. For students, this has turned life into an administrative obstacle course.

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Science

The truth about the world's oldest shark

The story of a Greenland shark, with an estimated age between 272 to 512 years has gone round the world. PhD student at the University of Copenhagen Julius Nielsen talks about the efforts to estimate the shark's age, and the challenge of getting the media to understand the main message of his research.

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Science

At DARK, a new work routine comes to light

Reporting from the Dark Cosmology Centre, I got caught up in innovative meeting platform ArXiv

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