Old KUA stripped to the bone

The demolition workers have done their job well. Old KUA, the former site of the Faculty of Humanities, has been stripped to the bone.

»In the beginning, KUA staff had the possibility to pick up plants, signs and furniture,« constructor Anders Wede explains.

The demolition crew then sold everything from copper cables to handle knobs. Huge amounts of plaster have been transported to an entrepreneur in the Netherlands and KUA's old roofing felt is to be turned into asphalt.

Extensive re-use

»Everything left is to be re-used in the new KUA buildings,« says Anders Wede.

Newsroom's choice: Old KUA

The demolition workers have done their job well. Old KUA, the former site of the Faculty of Humanities, has been stripped to the bone.

»In the beginning, KUA staff had the possibility to pick up plants, signs and furniture,« constructor Anders Wede explains.

The demolition crew then sold everything from copper cables to handle knobs. Huge amounts of plaster have been transported to an entrepreneur in the Netherlands and KUA's old roofing felt is to be turned into asphalt.

Extensive re-use

»Everything left is to be re-used in the new KUA buildings,« says Anders Wede.

Humanities students dressed the best

For three months, we scouted for fashionable students around the University's campuses. You, our readers, have voted 1589 times and helped select a winner.

Taking the lead with 68 per cent, the Humanities students knocked the socks off the Social Science students in our final showdown. The Faculty of Humanities thereby takes the prize as the most fashionable faculty at the University of Copenhagen. Congrats!

Dean of Humanities quits job

The Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Kirsten Refsing, has announced that she will resign her post and will go back to doing research. This is according to a release on KUnet late Friday.

»I have had five interesting years at the Faculty of Humanities, in which the faculty has carried out a hard, but necessary, process in connection with the demands for effectivisation of the research and education area. I want to go back to my research in Japanese studies. It is time to let new people do the pulling and the motivating,« Kirsten Refsing stated in a release.

For conference, the ash cloud had a silver lining

Faced with airport closures and mass-cancellations, the organisers of a conference at the Centre for Textile Research used new technology to hold the international meeting online.

The virtual conference was a much greater success than the planned physical meeting, attracting 2,000 participants rather than the expected 130.

The organisers Marie-Louise Nosch and Robert Laffineur, thought on their feet. Together with the technical department of the University of Copenhagen’s Faculty of Humanities (It-Media) they managed to 'live-stream' the conference on the Internet and a chat room.