News about The University

Sustainable labs are climate-friendly and save money

More than 1,200 researchers and laboratory technicians are involved in a new programme that has led to more sustainable laboratories at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH). It benefits the climate and creates green…

Featuring CERTIZENS at Copenhagen University

Read about the public seminar at the Centre of African Studies featuring the research of CERTIZENS Dr Kojo Opoku Aidoo, and Dr Godfrey Asiimwe

Guest PhD researcher, Nai Kalema, links up with CERTIZENS in Copenhagen

Read Nai Kalema’s responses to some key questions about herself, her doctoral research focus, and how she sees her research relating specifically to CERTIZENS.

New article published in Privacy Studies Journal

A new article has been published in Centre for Privacy Studies’ very own open access, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal: Privacy Studies Journal (PSJ). The article titled Position Paper: Escaping Academic…

A visit from Frederiksberg Gymnasium

In late November a biotechnology class from Frederiksberg Gymnasium visited our labs and got an introduction to Evolutionary Hologenomics by researchers Caroline Winther-Have and Morten Limborg. The feedback from the…

Opening Hours: Christmas and New Year

During Christmas and New Year 2022 the library has the following opening hours. December 23 9 - 17 December 24 - 26 Closed December 27 - 30 9 - 17 December 31 - January 1 Closed We wish you all a Merry…

Policies' implications on labor supply and inequality within families

Thomas Høgholm Jørgensen has been awarded The Semper Ardens Accelerate grant from The Carlsberg Foundation

Researchers receive grant to develop digital tool for ethnographic research

Morten Axel Pedersen and August Lohse receive Carlsberg Foundation's 'Research Infrastructure Grant' for a new research platform.

Videnskabsklubben receives the Amalienborg Prize

December 13, Professor Petrine Wellendorph participated in a ceremony at Amalienborg, where Videnskabsklubben received the Amalienborg Prize from HM Queen Margrethe on behalf of Dronning Margrethes og Prins Henriks Fond…

An ode to people who work in labs

With a short film, Postdoc Thomas Hughes has delivered an atypical anthropological product at the outskirts of academia – even though the film is celebrating science.

Exhibition - When Bovine Tuberculosis came to Denmark

An exhibition at KUB Frederiksberg In the library’s latest exhibition, we use our cultural heritage to facilitate a small glimpse into the significance of Bovine Tuberculosis on agriculture and general health in Denmark…

Student project grants 2022/2023

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Top scientists from UCPH and Oxford get DKK 180 million to research obesity

Worldwide, more and more people are suffering from obesity. Now a group of top researchers has received a great grant to develop new treatment.

PhD Course: Mechanisms in Innate Immune Signaling

PhD course on innate immune signaling pathways on 24-27 January 2023 at The LEO Foundation Skin Immunology Research Center.

Top researchers from UCPH and Oxford receives DKK 180 million to develop treatment for people with obesity

Last chance to register for 12th Uppsala University Pharmaceutical Profiling in Drug Discovery and Development Symposium

The registration for the 12th Uppsala University Pharmaceutical Profiling in Drug Discovery and Development Symposium is closing on Dec 21 and there are still places available. To all Nordic POP members, we also want to…

CEMES GRANTS – Spring 2023

Call for applications for research activities planned for 2023.

This year's 'invisible hand': "Capturing the attention of a student requires relevance and motivation"

The teaching prize "The Invisible Hand" is awarded each year to a lecturer at the Department of Economics who has demonstrated excellent teaching skills. This year the award goes to associate Professor Anders…

“It may be a common notion that researchers are a bit dusty, but that is not the case”

“There are many inspiring people doing research, and if you have the slightest bit of curiosity, you should try it.” These encouraging words were spoken by Mette Rosenkilde, who was recently awarded with the European…

“It may be a common notion that researchers are a bit dusty, but that is not the case”

“There are many inspiring people doing research, and if you have the slightest bit of curiosity, you should try it.” These encouraging words were spoken by Mette Rosenkilde, who was recently awarded with the European…

On Monday 12 December heating and hot water will be shut off

On Monday 12 December from 8 am to 3 pm, the heating and hot water will be shut off. Furthermore, the counter will be unmanned that day and you will therefore only be able to enter with a KU-Card. So if you intend to…

Brian Lystgaard Due receives the UCPH Innovation Award

Brian Due received the award for his interdisciplinary basic research into people's interaction with new technology.

Center for Medicinal Chemistry announces 6 PhD fellowships

Center for Medicinal Chemistry announces its first initiative of co-funded PhD fellowships with the industry. The initiative is financed with 9 mill DKK and is a broad collaboration

Multiple Perspectives, Cultivating Communities: Reflections on the NEEDS 2022 Conference

Disaster Studies is a growing multidisciplinary field that continues to produce diverse – and often competing or contrasting – perspectives on how disasters are conceptualized and addressed. The Northern European…