Society, Politics & Law

Good advice

2017.03.20

Universities want to help companies benefit from materials research of the future

How might Danish firms large and small make use of the world’s most powerful neutron and X-ray microscopes for product development? Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University and the Technical…

WORLD-CLASS RESEARCH

2017.02.23

Professor Mikael Rask Madsen receives Elite Research Prize for ground-breaking research into international law

Law professor Mikael Rask Madsen receives the Elite Research Prize for his ground-breaking research into international courts and the globalisation of law.

FACEBOOK

2016.12.23

Facebook makes you #unhappy and #lonely

A study from the Department of Sociology shows that the constant streem of friends' happy status updates at Facebook make us less satisfied with our own life.

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…

FOOD-Health

2016.11.11

Food scientists hunting for biological “blood trail” left by muscles

Already at the age of 50, we begin to lose muscle mass (called sarcopenia), which increases our risk for diseases, resulting in a loss of quality of life and costing society dearly. But if we easily can screen all older…

FOOD-Health

2016.11.11

Food research prevents illness in infants

Associate Professor Dereck Chatterton at the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen has spent more than 15 years carrying out research in order to improve infant formula for children who cannot be…

EU FISCAL POLICY

2016.10.20

Danish 'father of the euro' to head new eu fiscal body

The European Commission has appointed Professor Niels Thygesen of the University of Copenhagen to chair the European Fiscal Board, a brand new body set up to advise the Commission on fiscal matters.

Sclerosis

2016.10.12

New project to find correlations between diet and health in people suffering from sclerosis

Cut down on meat, leave out all dairy products and eat lost of leguminous fruit. Advice is plentiful when it comes to a sclerosis friendly diet, but in actual fact, not much is known about the subject. However, this is…

PSYCHIATRY

2016.10.06

Get Psychiatric Help via Your Smartphone

New research into digital treatment has led to the development of an app for treating people suffering from depression or bipolar disorder, preventing readmission to hospital. The Copenhagen Center for Health Technology…

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…

Grant

2016.10.04

A million USD for intestinal flora research that could potentially prevent obesity

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…

Top-class

2016.09.29

The Carlsberg Foundation's Research Prize 2016 goes to two UCPH researchers

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

Genetic diversity

2016.09.29

Animals in human altered areas have higher risk of extinction

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…

Cholesterol

2016.09.08

Danish researchers establish link between gene and ‘good cholesterol’

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…

Innovation

2016.06.09

Novozymes rewards students for environmentally friendly ideas

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…

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.

EMPLOYMENT

2016.05.04

New, dynamic and visible Head of the Department of Political Science

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.

Success

2016.04.18

Arla Foods and University of Copenhagen consolidate ambitious collaboration agreement

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…

SOCIAL MEDIA

2016.04.14

The Faculty of Social Sciences is investing heavily in social big data

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

GROUNDBREAKING RESEARCH

2016.03.30

For the first time scientists can observe the nano structure of food in 3D

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…