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11/03-10 kl. 10:33 World / Science

9/11 cover up or crazy conspiracy

Chemist and physicist debate whether the World Trade Center 7 collapse was a controlled demolition

05/03-10 kl. 06:00 Research / Science

Film courses after dead Greenlander media success

Ancient man’s gene sequence got massive coverage. Now Faculty of Science offers its researchers a one-hour film crash course

04/03-10 kl. 06:00 Education / Science

Selfish ant queens sacrifice their colony

Queen ants attempt to look after number one, even if the colony must pay. And this does not go unpunished, shows new Copenhagen research

See also:: Army ants can also make new friends, study shows

12/02-10 kl. 06:00 Politics / Life Science / Science

Why us? Deans attempt to explain in newsletters

Toxic issue of staff cuts in the most-affected Science and Life faculties is taken on by the deans

09/02-10 kl. 14:14 Research / Science

Aliens? Why not, says Canadian student presenter

Astrophysics student tours Danish high schools with talk of life on other planets

05/02-10 kl. 13:05 Politics / Science

Biology staff in joint open protest against cuts

In an open letter of protest, 96 teaching staff from the Department of Biology defy the university board of management and reject the reasoning behind planned cuts

Protests against job losses at the the university

03/02-10 kl. 12:15 Politics / Pharma / Life Science / Science / Health Science

Firing at home, hiring abroad

The University of Copenhagen is firing its own staff while actively seeking international PhDs. This apparent paradox has a simple explanation, according to the Faculty Director of Life Sciences

03/02-10 kl. 12:01 Politics / Pharma / Life Science / Science / Health Science

82 employees named for layoffs

Rector Ralf Hemmingsen has informed the university board of the exact number of University of Copenhagen employees to be fired. This was at a board meeting yesterday Tuesday

01/02-10 kl. 13:43 Politics / Science

Student Council: Rector owes us some answers

Both the Rector and the Student Council want an alternative model of university funding. Nonetheless, student politicians feel that the Rector ought to discuss the outlook for subjects hit by cutbacks

01/02-10 kl. 13:15 Politics / Science

Students block access to key university buildings

Hundreds of students have since early Monday morning blockaded key departments at the University of Copenhagen, protesting cutbacks and the shedding of jobs

28/01-10 kl. 12:43 Research / Science

»I am desperately in love with Copenhagen«

PhD student Ana Mosneaga is researching the transition from international student to migrant worker, at the Department of Geography. She fell in love with Copenhagen when she arrived in 2005 as an international student, and has since decided to make Denmark her home

21/01-10 kl. 11:43 Debate / Pharma / Life Science / Science / Social Science

University of Copenhagen, constantly in the red?

For the second year in a row, the University of Copenhagen has had to let staff go because of a bad economy. Leif Søndergaard, staff representative for academic employees at the university, comments on the effects of repeated rounds of cutbacks

See also:: 50 jobs axed at Faculty of Life Sciences; Forest and Landscape faces drastic cutbacks

16/01-10 kl. 06:00 Research / Pharma / Humanities / Life Science / Science / Health Science

DKK 210 million for research

The Danish Ministry of Science has delegated DKK 210 million to establish a new research infrastructure. The University of Copenhagen is receiving DKK 58 million for three different projects

07/01-10 kl. 11:24 Culture / Science

Art and physics collide at Niels Bohr

A new light sculpture transmits live signals from the Large Hadron Collider experiment in Switzerland to Niels Bohr Institute's facade on Blegdamsvej

See also:: God is sabotaging the Large Hadron Collider; God shuffles the cards for CERN

14/12-09 kl. 15:35 Research / Science

God shuffles the cards for CERN

The Almighty is wrecking the multi-billion euro CERN-experiment, and the proof of it is in a pack of playing cards. Is this serious physics? The University Post went to find out

Katherine Richardson on the roof of Science

07/12-09 kl. 11:42 Politics / Science

Scientists angered by Vice-Dean climate e-mail

Vice-Dean Katherine Richardson accused of abusing power and confusing job titles to brand a climate university

Winner of Natural History Museum competition

09/11-09 kl. 06:00 Campus / Science

Winning museum mostly under ground

DKK 1 million has been awarded to the top designs in a competition for a future Natural History Museum. First prize goes to a Danish design with an underground theme

08/11-09 kl. 06:00 Campus / Science

Green Lighthouse wins industry prize

University of Copenhagen's energy-efficent building has been awarded a building prize for innovation

06/11-09 kl. 11:28 Research / Science

Army ants can also make new friends, study shows

In times of need, a colony of army ants will assimilate itself into another colony

19/10-09 kl. 15:24 World / Science

God is sabotaging the Large Hadron Collider

Is the CERN experiment LHC’s purpose so »abhorrent to nature« that it is being sabotaged by its own future? University of Copenhagen physicist blames ‘backward causation’ for the collider’s teething troubles

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