News about The University

The Boeing Quantum Creators Prize awarded to Freek Witteveen

At the newly held Chicago Quantum Summit, postdoc Freek Witteveen from the department’s QMATH Centre won the 2023 Boeing Quantum Creators Prize.

CIP Symposium 2023- find the presentations

CIP's Symposium on November 2, 2023, had a special theme focusing on Professor Anne Holmen's overall contributions to research in multilingualism, language teaching and learning, sociolinguistics, and more.

Denmark funds BRIC cancer research projects

From left: Fena Ochs, Jesper Andersen, Niels Behrendt Thanks to the generous donations made during the 2023 Knæk Cancer show last month, run by Danish Cancer Society and TV2, BRIC researchers Fena Ochs, Niels Behrend…

Clean Sweep: Department of Computer Science takes home three Business Awards

Two researchers and two students from the Department of Computer Science were presented with this year's business and innovation awards from the Faculty of Science.

DKK 24 millions for brain research at SUND

The 'Ascending Investigators' grants from the Lundbeck Foundation are awarded to researchers from across the country, including five from SUND. .

Jennifer Suurbaar

Ph.D., University of Ghana

Professor Paul Dupree - Honorary Doctorate Recipient

Our OxyMiST partner, Professor Paul Dupree from the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, received an honorary doctorate in natural science from the University of Copenhagen on November 10. The…

Systematic review finds gaps in understanding microbe-driven acclimation and adaptation in wild vertebrates

In a recent preprint titled "Quantitative synthesis of microbe-driven acclimation and adaptation in wild vertebrates," researchers from Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics and University of Exeter conducted a…

Waste sorting at the Library

From 15 November and for the rest of the month, waste sorting bins will be set up in the library (as in the rest of KU). And these will be the ones you have to use here after. The bins around the study environment will…

Celebrating our new Professor Vito Foderà

Thursday November 9 we celebrated Vito Foderà’s inauguration as Professor here at Department of Pharmacy.

Professor Thue W. Schwartz wins UCPH Innovation Prize 2023

A founding member of CBMR, Professor Thue W. Schwartz is a pioneering fundamental researcher and co-founder of countless spinouts who has won this year's UCPH Innovation Prize.

Cecilie Rubow is Teacher of the Year at the University of Copenhagen

At the University of Copenhagen's annual commemoration, anthropologist and Associate Professor Cecilie Rubow has received the Teacher of the Year Award 2023 for excellent and inspirational teaching.

Johan Ulrik Nielsen is awarded the Gold Medal for his Prize dissertation 🥇

Indo-Europeanist Johan Ulrik Nielsen finishes his MA with a prize dissertation - and he was awarded the gold medal for it!

Distinguished researcher in the field of exercise physiology, honorary doctorate at University of Copenhagen

Professor Laurie J. Goodyear, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School is awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen for her outstanding research in the field of physical activity, particularl…

Five social science projects to investigate green transition

Five projects in Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science receive a total of DKK 15.8 million from Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) from the programme supporting independent green research.

Workshop: Assessment in Times of AI

Are you uncertain about how AI, chatbots etc., might impact your assessments and potentially introduce bias? This workshop offers valuable insights and guidance to help you reassess your approach.

Workshop: Navigating the risks associated with using ChatGPT in an academic setting

Did you know that 54% of Danish students have used ChatGPT to assist their studies and 19% have used it in an assessment situation? AI can do much more ..

Black Americans from well-educated families continue to face educational barriers

While racial disparities in education have narrowed in the US, African American individuals from well-educated backgrounds still find it especially difficult to attain the same high level of education as their parents.

New director at CIP

As of 1 January 2024, Professor Janus Mortensen takes over the position of centre director at CIP from Anne Holmen, who is retiring at the end of 2023.

Group leader Joachim Weischenfeldt appointed professor

Group Leader Joachim Weischenfeldt has been appointed “Clinical professor in clinical oncology with special focus on cancer genetics and structural variations” on 1 November 2023. Weischenfeldt group is interested in…

Professor Katja Salomon Johansen - new member of esteemed research society

Our head of the OxyMiST project, Professor Katja Salomon Johansen, has been accepted into The Scientific Research Honor Society - Sigma Xi: ''Thank you to the anonymous colleagues that have recommended me as a member t…

SUND researcher receives prestigious prize for research into the prevention of heart disease

Professor and doctor Tor Biering-Sørensen receives the 2023 Lundbeck Foundation Young Investigator Prize for his research into the prevention of heart disease. The prize is a recognition of his research and scientific…

Visiting PhD Researcher Leonie Jegen at CERTIZENS in Copenhagen

Get to know CERTIZENS' new guest researcher and learn how her PhD work relates to citizenship certification in African contexts.

Book Symposium: Pentecostalism and Politics

Director and Associate Professor Karen Lauterbach contributes to Contending Modernities’ book symposium (Symposium on Pastoral Power Clerical State Archives | Contending Modernities) on Ebenezer Obadare’s book Pastoral…