“Swapping one dream job for another,” Anne Skorkjær Binderkrantz writes of the transition from professor and researcher at Aarhus University to pro-rector at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU).

Unknown perpetrators broke into two offices at the School of Culture and Society. There, they stole keys providing access to all other offices across three floors in two buildings and made off with 15 to 20 laptops. Burglary is a growing problem, according to the head of information security.

The senior management team has decided to convert the English-taught bachelor's degree programme in Cognitive Science into a Danish-language programme, even though the decision "goes against everything we want to achieve as a university", as Pro-Rector Berit Eika puts it. The decision has also drawn criticism from both staff and students.

The renovation of the BSS canteen has disrupted the usual routines of the student associations. According to two associations, the consequences could be significant.

The five researchers who will receive honorary doctorates from Aarhus University this year join an 80-year tradition dating back to 1946, when the 18-year-old university sought to create an “intellectual pantheon” as part of its efforts to establish its own academic tradition.

Two AU researchers are on the list of the 100 most powerful IT people in Denmark, published by the IT media Computerworld. Professor of Cybersecurity Jens Myrup Pedersen is the highest-ranked representative from AU and can be found at the very top of the list.