News about The University

Large Grant for Research into Innovative Way of Fighting Severe Overweight

Romain Barrès, who researches epigenetics within metabolism, has received the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s prestigious Challenge Programme of DKK 60 million

ABC læringsdesign giver overblik og inspirerer til aktiverende undervisning

Ifølge studieleder Peter Holm fra veterinærstudiet og kursusansvarlig Camilla Foged fra Institut for Farmaci er ny ABC-metode yderst effektiv både til studie- og kursusplanlægning. Metoden er visuel, hands-on, tager kun…

Når engagement og overblik lyser ud af Absalon

Kursus i medicinsk celle- og vævsbiologi er et stort kursus med omkring 50 undervisere og over 300 studerende fra uddannelserne i medicin og molekylær biomedicin

Emilie Capron receives international Early-Career Scientist Award

Emilie Capron received the IUGG (International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics) Early Career Scientist Award for her outstanding research in Earth Sciences and her international research cooperation. She is currently…

Obesity in Children after Lifestyle Intervention

Children who are genetically predisposed to being overweight, due to common gene variants, can still lose weight by changing their diet and exercise habits.

Should you eat a low-gluten diet?

When healthy people eat a low-gluten and fiber-rich diet compared with a high-gluten diet they experience less intestinal discomfort including less bloating.

DKK 22 million project intensifies the hunt for the fundamental building blocks of the Universe at CERN

Research Infrastructure will upgrade the University of Copenhagen’s particle detectors and data processing facilities at CERN, so that in the future we can increase our knowledge about the early state of the Universe.

Abraham Pais Prize awarded to Helge Kragh

The American Physical Society has awarded the 2019 Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics to Helge Kragh.

University of Copenhagen home to the world’s leading research environment in sports science

The Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports and the Institute of Sports Medicine, Bispebjerg Hospital, rank as the world’s leading research environment within sports science in the ‘Global Ranking of Sport Science…

Leading Danish researcher receives Niels Bohr medal

One of the world’s leading researchers on catalysis, Prof. Jens Kehlet Nørskov from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), received the Niels Bohr International Gold Medal sunday October 7 on Bohr's birthday.

Official opening of Center for Hybrid Quantum Networks (Hy-Q)

The official opening of the new Center of Excellence, Center for Hybrid Quantum Networks (Hy-Q) was celebrated on September 17 in Festauditoriet at the Faculty of Science.

VILLUM Experiment millions to six NBI researchers

Six researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen have received just under DDK 11 million in research funding from the Villum Foundation, which will be used for projects or ideas that are…

Udvikl dit kursus med effektiv story-board metode

Cirka 20 undervisere fra Medicin-, Farma- og Veterinær-uddannelsen, har engageret sig i at udvikle og eller redesigne kurser med afsæt i en 90-120 minutter såkaldt ABC-workshop, som COBL har adapteret fra University…

What causes superconductivity? It will take legwork!

With a grant of 5,662,844 DKK from the Danish Council for Independent Research, Brian Møller Andersen at the Niels Bohr Institute will have the opportunity to try to understand the superconducting properties of…

The Carlsberg foundation supports the search for hidden particles with a grant of 4.4 million DKK

Oleg Ruchayskiy, lector in the research group Experimental Subatomic Physics at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen receives grant of 4.4 million DKK from the Carlsberg Foundation for Microphysics of the…

PhD student awarded the NBI TA prize for teaching in Linear Algebra

The prize for the best TA at Niels Bohr Institute is awarded for only the second time. The prize was established by the Teaching Committee based on a recommendation from the Physics Students Council.

Digitale undervisningsmaterialer løser udfordringer på valgfag

Slide med speak fra præsentationen: Organisk Delirium På kursusportalen beskrives valgfagets undervisningsform som: ”Ophold på hospitalsafdeling (diagnostisk eller klinisk) og vejledningstimer med klinisk…

Markus Ahlers receives 7.3 million DDK to find the sources of cosmic neutrinos

Markus Ahlers, assistant professor in the Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology research group at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen receives a Villum Young Investigator grant on 7.350.000 DDK for…

Giorgos Leloudas receives 10 million DKK to investigate the “blackest” of black holes in the Universe

The research in the black holes in the center of galaxies gets a boost on 10 million DKK with a Villum Young Investigator grant to assistant professor Giorgos Leloudas at DARK Cosmology Centre.

Lars Egstrøm Kristensen receives 9.3 million DKK to look for the building blocks of life in the Universe

From dead molecules to life – but how? Lars Egstrøm Kristensen, associate professor at the Astro and Planetary research section, has received 9.368.760 DKK from the Villum Young Investigator programme.

Mark Rudner receives the Niels Bohr Institute’s teaching award 2017

At the Niels Bohr Institute's annual kick-off meeting on January 25, 2018, the Jens Martin Prize was awarded to Mark Spencer Rudner for his education at the bachelor's degree "Condensed Matter Physics 1 (CMP1)".

Climate research receives a 4.5 million DKK grant from the Carlsberg Foundation

Carlsberg Foundation supports a climate project with 4.5 million DKK grant, that will provide new knowledge about the mechanisms of the sudden climate change of the past, improving our ability to handle the risk of the…

Jan Haerter receives DKK 10 million for research on atmospheric complexity

Jan Haerter from the Atmospheric Complexity Group at the Niels Bohr Institute receives an ERC Consolidator Grant of DKK 10 million for research on cloud-cloud interaction and for better understanding of the climate…

Women in Physics Prize 2017 awarded to up and coming astrophysicist Sarah Pearson

Together with the well-deserved KIF prize of 5000 Danish crowns, Christina Nis, Professor MSO at Roskilde University and member of the KiF Prize award committee, delivered these fine words to the Columbia-based Phd…