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  2019.02.20

  Universities strengthen efforts for academic freedom

  Six Danish universities, including the University of Copenhagen, have  opened a Danish branch of the international network organisation Scholars at Risk. … »

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  2019.02.20

  Successful Collaboration Strengthens the Recruitment of Doctors for Region Zealand

  Students of medicine at the University of Copenhagen have given the new module of the study programme in medicine a good reception; it offers them the chance to train as a doctor in Region Zealand. The first 16 students … »

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  2019.02.20

  New weapon to combat counterfeit goods: use your smartphone to check for fake merchandise

  Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have invented a chemical fingerprint that, when used with a phone app, reveals whether a product is genuine or a fake. The fingerprints have been tested and earned a 100% … »

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  2019.02.15

  Researchers from the University of Copenhagen Join Large EU Research Project on Liver Diseases

  Together with 21 other universities, companies and organisations across Europe, the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) will be doing research into deadly liver diseases in order to find better treatment options. The project … »

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  2019.02.11

  CO2’s silver lining fades away: Agriculture makes Earth seem greener

  Judging by satellite imagery, our planet has become greener. Until now, this was thought to be the result of trees and plants relishing in ever-increasing levels of atmospheric CO2. But now, a University of Copenhagen … »

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  2019.02.07

  New collaboration will improve quality and sustainability of food and agricultural production

  A new strategic agreement between the University of Copenhagen and the analytics company FOSS will use machine learning, spectroscopy and structural analysis, among other things, to develop improved analysis methods for … »

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  2019.02.06

  No strategy behind Denmark’s military engagement – we follow the United States

  It is very much government officials, ministers and the Danish Defence that stage the political decisions to go to war. Denmark's military engagement is only to a lesser extent based on strategic choices and long-term … »

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  2019.02.06

  Forgotten Islamic literary tradition uncovered in the Horn of Africa

  Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have spent the last five years identifying and analysing more than 2,000 Islamic manuscripts in the Horn of Africa in order to map and preserve the rich, but largely … »

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  2019.02.05

  New dean is to strengthen research and education at the Faculty of Social Sciences

  Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen will be the new dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. He comes from a position as Head of Department of Political Science. … »

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  2019.02.01

  Industrial Researcher Prize Goes to Research into Food Supplements for Foals

  As part of her PhD project at the University of Copenhagen Frederikke Lindenberg developed a food supplement for horses in cooperation with the company Brogaarden. Her research is now awarded Innovation Fund Denmark’s … »

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  2019.02.01

  Danish researchers behind AI driven customer support in a class of its own

  In just one year, researchers from the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Computer Science have developed an advanced customer service and support system built on artificial intelligence and provided it to several … »

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  2019.01.31

  New Exhibition Communicates the History of Reading and Writing Blindly

  How do you read and write when you cannot see? Medical Museion explores this question in the new mini exhibition Blindly, where the audience is required to listen and feel. The exhibited objects have been used by blind … »

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  2019.01.30

  Fifteen-thousand-year friendship between hound and human under the microscope

  It is often remarked that 'dogs look like their owners'. Might there be more to the assertion than believed? A new research project at the University of Copenhagen will examine the DNA of prehistoric dogs and humans to … »