News about The University

Interdisciplinary interactions in Bilbao – first ever Applied Hologenomic conference

In the middle of September 2022 people came from all over the world to Bilbao in the Basque Country to attend the first ever Applied Hologenomics conference. The conference consisted of three days of exchanging research…

Professor Bente Vestergaard is now emerita

After an exciting and influential career with a great scientific impact, Professor Bente Vestergaard has now changed her title to Professor Emerita.

Deleted data and plagiarism: High school students have poor understanding of rules

High school students lack understanding of academic norms, study shows. We need to rethink our idea of the cheating student, says researcher.

Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen will give talk as part of the AI seminar series

Associate professor at SODAS Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen will, as part of the AI seminar series, give a lecture on big data for the prediction of student success

PhD competition "Paasisavut" - THE RESEARCH DISSEMINATION COMPETETION

Are you passionate about communicating the research in your PhD project to a wide audience? Do you also have a great competitive gene? And the courage to present your research in just 5 minutes in front of a panel of…

DTU recruits PhD Student Adele Pioppi

Adele just started in Prof. Ákos Kovács' group.

This year’s summer language courses in Danish/German/French were extremely popular!

In August, CIP organised summer language courses in both Danish for international students and German and French for Danish students going on exchange. Both Danish and international students have been highly satisfied…

Researchers will enhance visual impressions using AR technology

A research collaboration between a psychologist and a computer scientist is now supported with 3 million DKK from the Villum Foundation. The researchers will investigate how visual impressions can be strengthened using…

VetSchool – positive assessment at the EAEVE revisitation

On Wednesday afternoon (21 September ), Antti Sukura and Pierre Lekeux from the EAEVE presented the conclusions from their two-days re-accreditation visit to the VetSchool.

Make your supervision even more efficient and fruitful - extended deadline 28/10

Voluntary course for experienced PhD supervisors Are you a busy PhD supervisor looking for strategies on how to make your supervision even more efficient and fruitful? And would you like to get inspiration from other…

Media School – available seats

Learn how research, communication and media can work together - without compromising the objectivity of the research. When: 10-12 October Enrollment deadline: 25 September The PhD course is organised by the Danish…

Professor Jørgen F.P. Wojtaszewski receives award for deepening the understanding of how exercise makes muscles more sensitive

This year Professor Jørgen Wojtaszewski was selected as one of two runners up and will receive DKK 500,000 for his research projects ‘Personalized Phosphoproteomics – Turning Phenotypic Variance into Scientific…

See what others have written about

Do you need inspiration for your next assignment? Via the university library's library system, you can now find published theses, master's theses, bachelor's projects and semester assignments from KU, RUC and AU.…

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…

Vetschool revisitation visit from EAEVE

On the 20th-22nd September, the Vet School will host a re-visitation team from EAEVE.

New associate professor to strengthen research into the social dynamics of innovation

In August, Ghita Dragsdahl Lauritzen was appointed associate professor at the Department of Sociology. She will work in the intersection between sociology and innovation in her research and teaching.

BRIDGE welcomes 15 new talented postdocs

We are excited to welcome 15 new fellows to the BRIDGE Translational Excellence Programme. The fellows started on 1 September 2022 and will over the two next year perform on their translational research projects with…

Researcher: Cultural aspects of quantum theory are missing in physics classes 

Quantum mechanics is interpreted in many different – often unscientific – ways. This opens up questions about the foundations of quantum theory and its relationship with culture that physics educators should not ignore,…

Stephan Sauer receives DKK 40 million NNF grant

Congratulations to professor Stephan P. A. Sauer for leading this exciting new quantum computer project supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation with a grant of DKK 40 million.

Two CHEM professors receive Villum Experiment grants

Professors Henrik Kjærgaard and Morten Meldeal from the Department of Chemistry, UCPH are receiving the “Villum Experiment grants” – each receiving DKK 2 million.

Wild ideas thrive at the Department of Biology

This year's Experiment million grants from the VILLUM FONDEN are being distributed today. The Department of Biology receives 10 percent of all grants and one third of the grants to the University of Copenhagen.

DRA Summer School about research, career and diversity

The Drug Research Academy (DRA) summer school took place 25-26 August 2022. This year, 115 PhD students and supervisors participated in the event, enjoying the beautiful venue Bymose Hegn in Helsinge and the…

DRA Summer School about research, career and diversity

The Drug Research Academy (DRA) summer school took place 25-26 August 2022. This year, 115 PhD students and supervisors participated in the event, enjoying the beautiful venue Bymose Hegn in Helsinge and the…

SIC receives prestigious Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship

The new fellowship secures two years of intensive studies on the role of microRNAs in the regulation of generation and maintenance of allergy-induced skin resident memory T cells. Allergen-induced skin resident memory T…