Handful of scientists behind climate manipulation

Important issues like the negative effects of tobacco and global warming are being manipulated by a small and select group of scientists and institutions in the USA. So claims Naomi Oreskes, a historian of science at the University of California, San Diego.

Oreskes refers to specific scientists and institutions including the Marshall Institute, known for creating confusion about the negative effects of tobacco during the 1980s.

Doubt is the product

Professor's photo controversy

Today is International Women’s Day. But how far has gender equality come when a renowned researcher from UCPH’s intellectual elite poses with half naked girls? This question has been raised by angry bloggers around the world.

The pictures in question are from a photo-shoot featuring elite researcher and professor in formal logic at University of Copenhagen, Vincent Hendricks. In February 2012 he was named ‘Man of the Month’ by online men’s magazine Connery.dk, which chose to illustrate this with scantily clad women.

Colombian student: We were ‘better mentors’

We did not have to wait long to see the reaction to a Faculty of Humanities Mentor Group decision to no longer use international students as mentors.

Colombian student Mauro Castaño is one of the international mentors who has been kicked out, and he finds the decision rude.

He himself had a Danish mentor when he arrived to Denmark and it was, he says, a complete disaster. The mentor couldn’t care less about him, he says.

International students valuable mentors

Non-Danes kicked out of mentor group

For three semesters now, international students have, together with Danes, been mentors of exchange students at the Faculty of Humanities.

International mentors proved to be good mentors as they already had experienced the same coming-to-Denmark situation.

But now, the Faculty of Humanities has got rid of all non-Danish mentors. Danes are more appropriate for the task due to their knowledge of Denmark and, therefore, they can integrate better the newcomers, the Faculty argues.

Danes know Denmark

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.

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.