Society, Politics & Law

The Department of Food Science (FOOD) at University of Copenhagen has received 6.3 million Danish kroner (app 1 million USD) from the Danish Council for Independent Research to study whether you can prevent obesity by…

UCPH professors in mathematics and in International Development Law received the Carlsberg Foundation's Research Prize 2016.

Human activity has already transformed the surface of the Earth. A just published Science paper shows that it also seems to reduce genetic diversity within animals - putting them at higher risk of extinction. The…

Danish researchers are the first in the world to have finally established a link between the GALNT2 gene and the level of HDL cholesterol – otherwise known as ‘good cholesterol’. This paves the way for continued researc…

A small gadget that can protect us against food poisoning and reduce food waste. Organic dyes which bond properly to the fabrics during manufacture, rather than being flushed out with the waste water and contaminating…

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.

Starting on 1 September 2016 professor Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen will be taking over from Lars Bo Kaspersen and assume the position as Head of the Department of Political Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Today, Arla Foods and University of Copenhagen celebrate the renewal of a strategic framework agreement signed in 2011. The agreement consolidates a very strong relation and research collaboration within dairy process…

The Faculty of Social Sciences is opening a new research centre for social big data: Copenhagen Centre for Social Data Science (SODAS).

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland have, for the first time, created a 3D image of food on the nanometer scale. The method the scientists used is called…

What if there is good reason to believe the greatest risks of climate change lie beyond 2050? This question is asked in a comment in the medical journal The Lancet by Professor Alistair Woodward, Head of Epidemiology an…

A group of researchers, headed by chemists based at the University of Copenhagen, plan to use green energy to help make chemical production greener, safer and more decentralised.

Reconstructing the emergence and evolution of life on our planet is tightly linked to the questions as to when and to what extent Earth’s atmosphere became oxygenated.

In a large alliance with Danish universities, public and private organisations, the Computer Science Department at University of Copenhagen has engaged in a new data research centre, DABAI, which will provide research…

Efforts to “rewild” the landscape have become increasingly popular, but a new paper led by the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate states that the scientific evidence supporting the potential benefits of this…

The University of Copenhagen is cutting deep into its staff in response to the Danish government's cutbacks. Even though a great deal of the savings are aimed at administration and service, they will affect the quality…

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.

Associate Professor Rebecca Adler-Nissen, Department of Political Science, has been appointed a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).

Leaders and diplomats tweet diligently - also from closed negotiations. Rebecca Adler-Nissen will research what this means to the diplomacy and its ability to create peaceful solutions on iternational tensions.

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…