150th Anniversary Time Line launched at life.ku.dk/English - 18.03.2008

The interactive anniversary exhibition “A changing Denmark – Bring Your Ideas to LIFE” can now be seen as a time line at the Faculty’s website www.life.ku.dk in an English version. The physical exhibition can be seen at Frederiksberg Campus until the end of the month.

On Friday 7 March, students, scientists and other staff at the Faculty of Life Sciences launched the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Frederiksberg Campus and on this occasion the anniversary exhibition was declared open by the Dean, Per Holten-Andersen. The exhibition - and the interactive time line - illustrates how, in a number of areas, research at Frederiksberg Campus has helped improve the life of the Danes in a sustainable way.

 

The establishment of the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University at Frederiksberg Campus in 1858 was the realisation of a Danish ambition to “raise agriculture in Denmark to a higher level” and to solve the most serious problems of that time, such as malnutrition, cattle plague and problems with hygiene.

 

Today the challenges are different. But the Faculty of Life Sciences at University of Copenhagen still addresses the important issues of the day, including obesity, molecular gastronomy, stem cells and sustainable biofuel.

 

The ambition, also, remains the same: to identify the most important challenges to society – and to meet them.

 

The time line at www.life.ku.dk/English shows the developments that have taken place in Denmark over the last 150 years. Click on the headlines of the timeline to read more. 

 

The anniversary exhibition will be open to the general public every day till 1 April from 8.30 – 17.00. Free admission at Faculty of Life Sciences, Thorvaldsensvej 40, Frederiksberg.

 

For more information about the exhibition, please contact Katherina Ludvigsen at tel 35 33 21 73.

 

Read more about the extensive anniversary programme.