News about The University

The unorthodox research ideas still have golden days at the Department of Biology

This year's 49 Villum Experiment grant recipients have been selected from a strong field of over 400 applicants. 11 of the grants went to researchers from SCIENCE, and of these, BIO accounts for an impressive 5: Deyon…

Researchers Secure Villum Experiment Grants to Explore New Boundaries

The Center for Evolutionary Hologenomics is celebrating that two of our researchers, Emilio Mármol Sánchez and Antton Alberdi, have been awarded the prestigious Villum Experiment Grant, each receiving 1.99 million Danis…

Cosmopolitan nationalism as an analytical lens: Four articulations in education policy

This paper extends Professor Claire Maxwell’s development of the concept of cosmopolitan nationalism (published in 2020 in the British Journal of Sociology of Education’s 40th anniversary special issue: The current and…

Eritrean Conflict on European Territory

In recent news, Associate Professor Stig Jensen details the continual conflict between Eritreans in Europe. Recently, 67 people were taken by the police in Copenhagen as a result of violent counter protests against an…

New Ph.D.: Plugging numbers into a formula isn't physics 

When students view physics formulas only as mathematical tools, they fail to understand physics in a meaningful way. We need to teach students to ask why, says new Ph.D.

Sociological Foundations of Education

Professor Claire Maxwell has led the writing and editing of the book Sociological Foundations of Education - the most recent and authoritative analysis of the field of sociology of education. It was commissioned by…

Villum Foundation supports bold ideas

Three researchers receive grants from the Villum Experiment. All projects are meant to push the boundaries of research and lead to breakthroughs.

New CEMES Research Groups Set Up

At its meeting on 11 September 2023, the CEMES Steering Committee reviewed the application submitted by researchers across the three CEMES partner institutions, University of Copenhagen, Lund University and Malmö…

Improving health and well-being of under-resourced populations in South Africa

The seven-year grant from Wellcome Trust will support the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) pioneering scientific research toward achieving its vision, which is the optimal health and well-being of under-resourced…

Eske Willerslev receives prestigious international prize recognizing his research in human evolution

Professor Eske Willerslev is awarded the prestigious Balzan Prize, becoming one of the first Danes to receive this honour. The prize comes with a grant of 784,000 euros.

New Podcast: Language Use at the University of Copenhagen

CIPs has just released the podcast "Language Use at KU," and the first episode is about international staff teaching in Danish as a second language at the University of Copenhagen.

Scientific language cannot be tested solely with pen and paper

Science is not merely a collection of terms and formulas but a practice. Assessing children's knowledge of science through pen-and-paper tests only evaluates a limited portion of what they know, says researcher.

Mads Pedersen-Ebbe Midtbøll

Cand. scient. (biology), Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen

Welcome to new students

Welcome to Copenhagen University Library, South Campus which is library for Humanities, Law and the IT University of Copenhagen. Copenhagen University Library has several campus libraries and students are welcome to us…

Green versus Green: Can wind turbines and nature interests go hand in hand?

A new project at the Department of Anthropology will investigate how different interests can come together in the development of energy parks.

ISBUC LEGO Molecule Masters

This summer, ISBUC held its first ever LEGO Molecule Masters challenge.

Akila Ravikumar

Cand. scient. (biotechnology), Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen

Marcus Tran joins CMP

Marcus joins the DRUGS team

New PNAS Study Reveals Genetic Insights into Conservation of Critically Endangered Asian Rosewoods

A groundbreaking new study titled "Range-wide differential adaptation and genomic offset in critically endangered Asian rosewoods" published in the prestigious journal PNAS, sheds light on the genetic mechanisms driving…

New PNAS Study Reveals Genetic Insights into Conservation of Critically Endangered Asian Rosewoods

A groundbreaking new study titled "Range-wide differential adaptation and genomic offset in critically endangered Asian rosewoods" published in the prestigious journal PNAS, sheds light on the genetic mechanisms driving…

Launch of new Danish-Swedish research center on European studies

The research centre aims to explore the last centuries’ political, cultural, and intellectual transformation of Europe as well Europe’s relations with other regions in the world. CEMES will actively coordinate and…

Henriette Hoffmann-Veltung

Cand. scient. (immunology and inflammation), Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Novo Nordisk buys CBMR biotech spinout to acquire their novel approach for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes

Researchers from University of Copenhagen discovered a target that suppresses hunger, stimulates calorie burning and increases insulin sensitivity. The spinout Embark Biotech has now been acquired by Novo Nordisk

PRIVACY welcomes new intern on SOUND project

This week, we are happy to welcome Tamara Bulicic Auspont to the Centre for Privacy Studies. Tamara is a musicologist and MA student in Advanced Migration Studies at UCPH. She will intern on Christine Jeannerets SOUND…