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SCIENCE Business Prize to Mogens Steffensen

Professor Mogens Steffensen has been awarded the SCIENCE Business Prize, which is awarded to those who make a special effort to make new knowledge available to companies and authorities.

CERTIZENS PhD Workshop for Students at the University of Ghana

OPEN PHD WORKSHOP ON CERTIFICATION, CITIZENSHIP AND STATE MAKING University of Ghana, Legon 17- 18 NOVEMBER 2021 Invitation to interested PhD/MPhil…

Birgitta Nordström receives the KIF Lifetime Achievement Award

The board of KIF has decided to give this special Lifetime Achievement Award to Associate Professor Emerita Birgitta Nordström for her significant scientific contributions and for being a valuable role model.

Online students engage more in lectures than physical attendees

New research demonstrates that online lecture attendees at the University of Copenhagen ask significantly more questions during large lectures than students who attend physically. This may be partly due to online…

Vocational education shapes students’ personality

Do young people become more conscientious by getting an education? Yes, if it is a vocational education, a new study reveals.

Welcome week rituals signal cultural expectations to new students

Activities during induction week signal cultural and social expectations to new students, according to a study of the welcome weeks at three UCPH programmes. “Between the lines” messages to the incoming students ought t…

Asbjørn's thesis on mathematical quantum mechanics was the best

The Danish Mathematical Society has awarded the Edlund-DMF Thesis Prize for 2020 to Asbjørn Bækgaard Lauritsen, a graduate of the University of Copenhagen. He receives the prize for the thesis “A Mathematical Formulatio…

CANCELLATION OF 1st Joint Symposium of China's Pharmaceutical Association and Nordic POP

The event planned for this summer in Shenyang university had to be cancelled due to ongoing pandemic situation. The 14th China Pharmaceutics Conference should include the first joint event of China's Pharmaceutical…

New educational resources about innovation in global health

University of Copenhagen has produced a series of freely available modules and online lectures about innovation in global health.

Henri Poincaré Prize awarded to Jan Philip Solovej

The International Association of Mathematical Physics has awarded Professor Jan Philip Solovej with its highest honour. He is the first Danish researcher to receive the prize.

Tobias Holck Colding to give Plenary Lecture at ICM

Adjunct professor Tobias Holck Colding will be Plenary Lecturer at The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in St Petersburg, Russia, July 2022.

Research into digital sovereignty and governance of oceans receives multi-million grants

Two VELUX FONDEN grants allow researchers from the Department of Political Science to launch projects on crucial political challenges in digital technologies and sustainable governance of seas.

New in ISBUC: Eva Kummer

Eva Kummer is one of the newest members of ISBUC. In April 2021, Eva was recruited as an Associate Professor in the Structural Biology Group at the Centre for Protein Science, UCPH.

New Associate Dean for Education at the Faculty of Social Sciences

On 1 September Professor Sara Hagemann takes up office as the new Associate Dean for Education at the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Researchers test virtual reality as a tool for promoting vaccination

234 random passersby got the opportunity to try a new virtual reality game, when researchers from the University of Copenhagen visited Fælledparken to test the efficiency of VR technology within health information.

Researchers test virtual reality as a tool for promoting vaccination

234 random passersby got the opportunity to try a new virtual reality game, when researchers from the University of Copenhagen visited Fælledparken to test the efficiency of VR technology within health information.

SUND vision and recommendations for teaching post COVID-19

Inspiration for variation of teaching activities and course development to more blended formats

Efficient student feedback for busy lecturers

By Associate Professor Helle Lottrup Halkjær Rhode, Department of Veterinary and Animal Science and Centre for Online and Blended Learning. For sparring, contact Helle Lottrup Halkjær Rhode or Centre for Online and…

GAUSS Prize to Bladt & Steffensen for outstanding work

Mogens Bladt and Mogens Steffensen from the University of Copenhagen, and Søren Asmussen from the University of Aarhus, have won the Gauss Prize for their article “Matrix representations of life insurance payments”.

Joint educational project at NBI

Alessandra Camplani and Stefania Xella from the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) at the University of Copenhagen, have received a 4EU+ grant for Joint Educational Projects.

Operator algebras receives DFF-grant for research in quantum mathematics

The operator algebras groups at UCPH and SDU (Odense) was granted more than 5 MDKK for the DFF (Independent Research Fund Denmark) Research project 2 ”Operator Algebras, Groups, and Quantum Spaces”.

Why doesn’t your zoom lecture dance?

”So why, when it comes to education online, does so much seem deathly? Why doesn’t your zoom lecture dance? If the internet dances, why can’t education join in?” A blogpost by postdoc Mark Johnson in the Post-pandemic…

CERTIZENS Public Launch

Watch the launch of the Certifications of Citizenship in Africa research project from March 2021.

Identification of relaxation oscillations - NNF grant to Elisenda Feliu

The Novo Nordisk Fonden supports Elisenda Feliu’s research in relaxation oscillations in biochemical reaction networks with DKK 1.3 million for the next two years.