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Justice Beyond Time, Place, and Law

Place: Onzième Lieu, Paris Programme 14:00-15:30 – Session 1 Forms of and Fora for Accountability Contributors: Mohammed Bassiki, Garance le Caisne, Mazen Darwish Chaired by Cecile Boex During the revolution and war in…

Lighthouse Launch - a pre-accelerator (Deadline 14 March!)

Lighthouse Launch is a pre-accelerator for UCPH students and PhD-students that offers grant, unique access to mentors and designated support to advance your project the next stage, whether that be an accelerator program…

ORPHEUS 2024 Conference in Tbilisi, Georgia on April 18 – 20.

Innovative Strategies and Concepts for PhD Education in Biomedicine and Health Sciences. This conference will present innovations in interdisciplinary and cross sectoral doctoral programs, emphasizing their impact on…

“We need more knowledge in the chef’s hats”

With the new book Gastrofysik & smagshåndværk (Gastrophysics & Flavor Craftsmanship,) the bridge between food science, culinary education, and kitchens is set to be strengthened. This is imperative, as insights into the…

Borderland 2024 - Application Deadline: April 1st

Are you missing 7,5 ECTS Points? Do you want to spend a month in Thailand this summer? APPLY FOR THE BORDERLAND COURSE!

Director of NordForsk Arne Flåøyen visited Kuopio and expressed ongoing support to Nordic POP

Director of NordForsk Arne Flåøyen visited Kuopio last week where he met with local PI's and representatives of Nordic POP. Professor Jarkko Ketolainen presented the latest activities and current outcomes of Nordic POP…

PhD Fellow Nine Riis receives Elite Research Travel Grant

PhD Fellow Nine Riis has been awarded an Elite Research Travel Grant of DKK 200,000 from the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science.

Registration Drug Transport & Enabling Formulations Symposium and subsequent Summer School 2024 is now opened

Registration for two interrelated events are now opened. Follow the links provided at the websites for both Drug Transport & Enabling Formulations Symposium 2024 and Drug Transport & Enabling Formulations Summer School…

Alberto Dinarello has been awarded a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship

The aim of the project is to describe the biological mechanisms behind how chromatin modulation affects differentiation. This study builds on a previous study by Yan Fung Wong, published in Nature Cell Biology, which…

Award-winning researcher dreams of stellar explosions and strives for equity and inclusion in academia

She studies the giant explosions of dying stars and dreams of experiencing and extracting data from a supernova close to Earth. Professor Irene Tamborra from the Niels Bohr Institute also tirelessly promotes equity and…

The Graduate School is closed 5 & 6 March 2024

The Graduate School is closed 5 & 6 March 2024. Telephone calls and emails will not be answered. Your enquiry will be answered as soon as possible.

Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen wins the EliteForsk Award

H. M. Queen Mary and Minister for Higher Education and Science Christina Egelund will today present the prestigious EliteForsk awards to Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, one of five young researchers who have distinguished…

10 Guiding principles for learning in the laboratory

This Perspective shares 10 guiding principles relating to university laboratory education, drawing on research over the last decade.

Social networks explored in new SODAS project

How do social networks actually emerge and how do different social behavioural strategies affect their structure? This is what Josefine Bohr Brask will explore with the support of a large grant from Novo Nordisk.

Tune H Pers receives award for outstanding research on obesity and diabetes

Tune H Pers receives the Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research in 2024 for his research.

Problem Solved! - Problems with PhD Planner

The problem with PhD Planner is now solved! Dear PhD Planner user, At the moment it is not possible to upload documents to PhD Planner. This is due to an upgrade of PhD Planner and the connection to the archive…

Special issue of Visual Anthropology

With a stellar line-up including Dima Saber, Abdul Rahman al-Jaloud, Stefan Tarnowski, Ugur Ümit Üngör, Chad Elias, and Thomas Keenan, we explore the various dimensions of image use, archives, and recollections in the…

Eleven projects received funding from the CEMES Spring Call 2024

The distribution proved challenging as so many projects showed high quality and original ideas. The Committee decided to support the following applications (in alphabetical order): “Academia and cultural production as…

Large grant makes it possible to continue groundbreaking research in the brain

DKK 35 million grant enables Professor Ole Kiehn to continue his research into brain motor control and to shed light on fundamental mechanisms of motor disorders in neurodegenerative diseases.

SAVE THE DATE for 5th Nordic Conference on Paediatric and Orphan Medicines on May 14-15, 2024 in Helsinki

EU Paediatric Regulation (EC 1901/2006) came into force in 2007 with the aim to improve the health of the children in Europe by increasing the research and authorization of medicines for children and improving the…

New publications by RYA researchers

Three new articles are out. Two in Comunicazioni Soziali on audiovisual content for children (edited by Chiarulli, Fumagalli and Redvall) with chapters by Christa Lykke Christensen (on Minisjang) and Jakob Freudendal (o…

New research blogs on the RYA 2023 conference

Two blogs are now out on the Reaching Young Audiences conference at the University of Copenhagen in November 2023. One for CSTonline by Jakob Freudendal, and one for Flow Journal by Eva Novrup Redvall.

Exhibition: The Art of Ikat - A Cambodian Renaissance

Enter the woven world of Cambodian silk ikat, hol in Khmer, a resist-dye weaving technique and century-old textile craft. While sericulture and weaving have been activities grounded in villagers’ lives in the…

Revolutionary zebrafish model unravels host gene influence on microbiota dynamics

In a leap forward for microbiome research, scientists have unveiled a groundbreaking zebrafish model designed to unravel the intricate interplay between host genetics and the microbiota. The study promises to reshape ou…