Culture, Language & History

archeolinguistics

2017.09.29

Scandinavia’s earliest farmers exchanged terminology with Indo-Europeans

5,000 years ago, the Yamnaya culture migrated into Europe from the Caspian steppe. In addition to innovations such as the wagon and dairy production, they brought a new language – Indo-European – that replaced most loca…

Exhibition

2017.09.05

Sugar Sweet Theatre Unites Art and Research

What happens when art studies research? For the exhibition Sugar Theater artists have created four works of art on sugar in cooperation with researchers from the University of Copenhagen. The result is an unusual…

Collaboration on the good life in old age

2017.04.06

Judith Kyst: We are gathering and sharing our knowledge about the good life in old age

The Department of Food Science, together with two other departments at the University of Copenhagen, has joined forces with the Food Culture Association (Madkulturen) in a new research centre, Centre for Good Older…

underwater archaeology

2016.12.20

Archaeologists connect ancient Corinth's inner and outer harbours

Researchers from the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports and the University of Copenhagen are continuing to make important discoveries at Lechaion, the main harbour town of ancient Corinth. Among them structures that…

origins of agriculture

2016.12.05

Prehistoric plant remains highlight diverse origins of cereal domestication

Recent archaeological studies have suggested that the cultivation of morphologically wild plant species (pre-domestication cultivation), a precursor of agriculture, developed across southwest Asia around 11,600-10,700…

FOOD-Health

2016.11.11

New interdisciplinary research group at FOOD sees food science as a path to better health

In recent years, the Department of Food Science (FOOD) at the University of Copenhagen has had an increased research focus on how food affects human health. This focus cuts across department disciplines, so FOOD has…

eyetracking

2016.10.24

Eyetracking data can improve language technology and help readers

New research from the University of Copenhagen shows that recordings of gaze data – within a few seconds – can reveal whether a word causes a reader problems

Brain research

2016.10.18

New initiative will promote brain research in Denmark

Five of Denmark’s leading researchers on structural biology will collaborate on a project to gain insight into the brain’s functions and diseases. The initiative is called BRAINSTRUC and funded by Lundbeckfonden with up…

food fraud

2016.10.05

Food scientists: We can detect much more food fraud

Researchers from the Department of Food Science (FOOD) at the University of Copenhagen point out that “non-targeted” methods of analysis can reveal far more food fraud than we are currently detecting. The analytical…

Food Award

2016.05.27

Head chef of Nordic Food Lab wins Sardinian Prize

Roberto Flore, head chef of Nordic Food Lab at University of Copenhagen, won the Sardinian award “Manos in Pasta” for sending a message about true Sardinian gastronomic heritage to the rest of the world.

Visual science

2016.02.04

University kicks of battle of beautiful data

Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen and Faculty of SCIENCE are inviting researchers from all walks of science to join the competition “Art in Science”.

Language

2016.01.18

Slashing small programme offering

A series of study programmes at the University of Copenhagen is about to halt the intake of new students in 2016. Some of the programmes are facing closure because of the government's cost savings.

underwater archaeology

2015.12.23

Greek and Danish archaeologists excavate the ancient Greek harbour town Lechaion

In Greece, underwater excavations of Lechaion, ancient Corinth’s partially submerged harbour town, reveal the infrastructure of more than a thousand years of flourishing maritime trade.

HEALTH

2015.12.03

What your father ate before you were born could influence your health

There is increasing evidence that parents’ lifestyle and the environment they inhabit even long before they have children may influence the health of their offspring. A current study, led by researchers from the Novo…

DOCTORAL THESIS

2015.11.11

Politicians condition the influence of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)

EU politicians have decisive influence on the broader impact of the Court’s jurisprudence. That is the conclusion by Professor Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen, who is one of the first to analyse the judicial influence on EU…

Film

2015.09.16

Panum location for new film

He is one of the writers behind top box office films like Fasandræberne (The Pheasant Killers), A Royal Affair and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. For the first time, screenwriter Rasmus Heisterberg will now step into…

language technology

2015.09.07

Linguists use the Bible to develop language technology for small languages

Linguists from the University of Copenhagen can now produce language technology – based on Biblical verse and Wikipedia articles – for up to 100 small and big languages at the same time.

ANNIVERSARY

2015.08.27

Department of Political Science celebrates its 50 year anniversary

The Department of Political Science is publishing an anniversary book to celebrate that on 1 September 50 years ago, the first students were admitted to the Department.

Emigration

2015.07.21

The population history of Native Americans

There is archaeological evidence of modern humans in the Americas by approx. 15 thousand years ago (KYA). However, there is still debate over exactly when and how many times the ancestors of present-day Native Americans…

Chemistry research

2015.07.21

Rock paper fungus: How X-ray imaging of rocks will save papers of the past

Believe it or not: X-ray works a lot better on rocks than on paper. This has been a problem for restorers trying to save historical books and letters from the ravages of time and fungi. They frankly did not know what…

archaeology

2015.05.21

The Bronze Age Egtved Girl was not from Denmark

One of the best-known Danish Bronze Age finds, the famous Egtved Girl from 1370 BC, was not born in Denmark. She came from Southern Germany, , new research shows.

ELECTIONS

2015.04.15

The Danish election poster has become a shadow of its former self

In the past the Danish election poster was a piece of art. Today it is often like a dull advertisement according to professor Peter Nedergaard, Department of Political Science, who is co-author of a new book about the…

archaeology

2015.03.17

Weights will shed new light on prehistoric trade and economy

How did the introduction of balance weights in Bronze Age Europe and Asia shape the way prehistoric cultures conducted trade? This fundamental question will inform a new groundbreaking ERC-funded research project based…

information and bubbles

2015.03.02

The Carlsberg Foundation funds Centre for Information and Bubble Studies

The Carlsberg Foundation has awarded Professor Vincent F. Hendricks 1,92 million euros to establish the Centre for Information and Bubble Studies (CIBS) which is to be located at The Faculty of Humanities, University of…

obesity

2015.01.13

The obese can teach us how to lose weight

New research shows that patients who have been through gastric bypass surgery can teach us important lessons about weight loss: if we are to change our eating habits, we need to take into consideration the experiences w…