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Results from the MUST project can inform decisions about language initiatives in higher education

From 2020 to 2023, the project Models for teaching language as an additional competence (MUST) carried out work to investigate how best to introduce language as an additional competence in higher education on…

Is testosterone shaping the evolution of hematopoiesis and leukemia?

Anna Wilhelmson, Senior Researcher at BRIC, receives 210,526 DKK from the Neye Foundation for the research project that aims to advance the understanding of how testosterone affects clonal hematopoiesis and,…

Vitor Cardoso receives Simons Foundation grant for strong gravity research

Vitor Cardoso is one of 12 PIs at different institutions, who will receive the support from the Simons Foundation for a collective project on gravity and black hole research.

New INTERSECT visiting research fellow Eleni-Ira Panourgia

Eleni-Ira Panourgia is a sound and visual artist and researcher whose work explores new forms of expression across sound, objects, spaces, and environments.

PhD Supervisor Talk: Impostor Syndrome in Higher Education and Strategies for Addressing It

Aim and content This Talk is for PhD supervisors at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. Other faculty members are also welcome. In this interactive session you will learn: • What the impostor phenomenon is and…

Talk for PhD students: Rethinking Impostor Syndrome - Why Capable Students Doubt Their Competence and What to Do About It

Aim and content This Talk is reserved for PhD students at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. Millions of people around the world, from new hires to CEOs, first-year students to PhDs, artists and engineers,…

ESERA Conference in Copenhagen sets attendance record

The Department of Science Education (IND) is hosting Europe’s most important conference on science education research as it takes place in Copenhagen for the very first time.

PRIVACY receives recognition as runner-up for Research Environment Prize

From the left: Research intern Beate Skakkebæk Lindegaard, Centre director Mette Birkedal Bruun, and PhD fellow Viktor Wreström This month, PRIVACY was named runner-up for the Research Environment Prize awarded by…

Summer closure at the offices

The library offices at the Faculty of Humanities’ departmental libraries are closed in weeks 28, 29, 30 and 31, i.e. from 7 July to 1 August. If you need help or guidance, you are welcome to contact us at the campus…

Two research projects on the effects of yoyo dieting and oral infections receive large Novo Nordisk Foundation Challenge Grants

Two research projects from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, led by respectively Professors Thomas Jespersen from Department of Biomedical Sciences and Professor Torben Hansen from Novo Nordisk Foundation…

Daniel Gyollai wins award for the best journal article for 2025

Congratulations to Daniel Gyollai. His journal article, Historical Criminology, Historical Time, and Embodiment: A Phenomenological Intervention, has been confirmed as the Winner of the British Society of Criminology's…

Lydia Boyle Garcia

Cand. scient. (Immunology and Inflammation), Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

New chemistry teaching material coming to high school!

Free chemistry lessons for high school! New sustainable material ready 1 August at alterkemi.dk - perfect for STX and HTX.

Summer Opening Hours 2025

The library is open all summer. You can pick up and return books during the summer period, and you are welcome to use our study areas. Opening hours in July and August: Monday - Friday 9 am - 5 pm Enjoy the summer.

New Danish research centre to make designed proteins with vast potential

Designed proteins are anticipated to have groundbreaking impact on a range of issues from treating disease to tackling environmental problems. With a DKK 700 million grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation and headed by…

CTS researcher has won the Top Paper Award

Diyi Liu, a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Tracking and Society, has won the Top Paper Award at the Communication Law and Policy Division.

Jacob Ørmen receives the Sapere Aude: DFF-Starting Grant

Associate Professor at CTS Jacob Ørmen has been awarded the Sapere Aude: DFF-Starting Grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Mahesha M. Poojary receives a Sapere Aude: DFF Starting Grant

Associate Professor Mahesha M. Poojary receives a prestigious Sapere Aude: DFF Starting Grant which he will use to investigate the chemical changes in plant-based foods when heavily processed, and these new molecules’…

Niklas Ravn, Postdoc at BRIC, receives grant from the Lundbeck Foundation

Niklas Ravn (Issazadeh-Navikas Group) is receiving 2.995.212 DKK, for his project: CD1d-dependent neuronal activation of NKT cells: A novel neuroimmune influence on neural homeostasis.

Nine Sapere-Aude grants for SCIENCE researchers

Together with eight other researchers from the Faculty of Science, Assistant Professor Jun Yang has received one of the prestigious Sapere Aude DFF Starting Grants from the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

Nine Sapere-Aude grants for SCIENCE researchers

From microbe research in both PFAS and colorectal cancer to the formation of stars in galaxies, and to the evolution and domestication of dogs. Nine researchers from the Faculty of Science have each received one of the…

A new declaration makes it easier to manage generative AI in exams

How should students declare their use of generative AI in exams? Now we have a concrete tool.

Alberte Lund Wissing

Cand. scient. (Human Biology), Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Emilia Hjortkilde

Cand. scient. (Immunology and Inflammation), Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen