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Hreinn Gudlaugsson, Graphic designer at Events and Communication Support, is from Iceland. He is going back to Iceland for Christmas so he don’t have…
Agnieszka Radziwon, assistant professor at Department of Business Development and Technology, is from Poland. This year she celebrates Christmas…
Derek Beach is professor at Department of Political Science and is from USA. He celebrates Christmas both on the 24th following Danish traditions, and…
Venka Simovska is professor and PhD at the Danish School of Education (DPU) in Emdrup. She is from North Macedonia where the church uses an old…
Nuri Faarup is part of the cleaning-staff at Aarhus BSS. She is from Indonesia where Christians celebrate Christmas on 25 December. She describes…
The first dean of the new Faculty of Technical Sciences will be a man named Eskild Holm Nielsen. He comes to AU from a position as innovation manager…
Hilde Bollen is programme coordinator (LAICS Master) at the Arts Administrative Centre in Emdrup. She is from Belgium, but has lived in Denmark for 16…
Catrine Rumohr is from Norway and works as a Relocation Officer and Expat Partner Advisor at AU Research Support and External Relations. She would…
Michelle Williams is from New Zealand. She is head of Department at the Department of Food Science.
Müge Özbek Akçay, postdoc at the Department of Psychology and behavioural Sciences, is from Turkey where the majority do not celebrate Christimas.…
Taylor Azizeh is an international student from USA and studies arctic ecosystems and marine mammals at the Arctic Research Center, Department of…
AU’s campus just got a new green oasis: AU Garden. AU Garden will bring employees and students together around growing things – from an organic…
As a result of an uncontested election, Buildings Manager Uffe Pilegård Larsen from the Department of Agroecology in Flakkebjerg is the new board…
All parties in the Danish Parliament have agreed on the allocation of the research reserve funds for 2020. The agreement is good news for the…
She had a seat at the table when the board voted to put AU through the most brutal round of budget cuts the university has ever suffered. She helped…
As a result of this year’s election, new representatives will take over four of the five seats on the university board that belong to the university’s…
Biologist Rasmus Ejrnæs will host the weekly nature program ‘Vildspor’ on the new radio station Radio4, which came on the air last week.
November is election time for students and employees at Aarhus University. This year, only one of the student spots on the AU Board is up for…
A university that makes its voice heard more in public debate, at least one new interdisciplinary research centre and educating students in the…
The university’s perception of students as rational animals following the straight path of common sense through their studies contrasts starkly with…
That antiseptic hospital smell still lingers in the walls of Aarhus’ former municipal hospital. But not for long: builders are hard at work on AU’s…
In the Hopper Building, the lightsabers of Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker light up – in red and blue – when the restroom on the corridor is busy. This…
You’d have to be a fool (or a vegetarian) not to enjoy a Danish pork roast – juicy on the inside, crispy on the outside. But the licorice thing (Why…
Campus life at AU is informal – you’re on a first-name basis with your professors, and you can even run naked through the University Park. To get the…
AU’s biologists have been pushing for more untamed nature into the University Park for a long time. And now a little strip of wildflowers is blooming…
As a student, you might spend a lot of time wandering around campus looking for a nice, quiet spot to study. Here’s a tip: check out Museum Ovartaci…
Save the date: Saturday August 31st. AU’s research foundation invites you – and everyone else in town – to a huge street party on the grounds of the…
Denmark’s well-organized society and free education are attractive. But it’s hard to crack the code of the language, the weather is chilly – and so…
There are some deadlines you just don't want to miss. And there are events you’re really going to regret missing out on. There are also days where you…
After the new higher education and science minister Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen puts down her champagne glass and rolls up her sleeves, one of the first…
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (Social Democrats) is presenting her new government today, including the new higher education and science minister –…
Mette Frederiksen (Social Democrats) is Denmark’s new prime minister, and tomorrow she’ll announce her new government, including the new higher higher…
On the new committee for diversity and gender equality at AU, each faculty is represented by one woman and one man. Associate Professor Ebbe Bødtkjer…
PhD student Tobias Sandfeld from the Department of Bioscience in Aarhus doesn’t believe that AU can become sustainable unless measures aimed at…
The single letter ‘d’ separating mord (murder) from mor (mom) can literally be fatal. But linguist Ocke Bohn can’t hear the difference – and he’s not…
A new PhD project has analyzed employment trends at Danish universities over the past two decades for the first time. While the proportion of tenured…
Reality is in the eye of the beholder. In this case, the eyes of four new AU employees from other countries who participated in AU’s workshop for new…
Close to half of AU’s employees are not familiar with the university’s gender equality policy, reveals a survey by an AU researcher. It also reveals…
Rector Brian Bech Nielsen speaks about quotas at AU with about the same enthusiasm as fishermen discussing North Sea cod quotas. In other words, he…
AU’s rector is pleased that the new WPA shows that stress is down, but he’s surprised that more than one in ten employees thinks that they aren’t free…
There’s no dialogue about gender at AU, men have an easier time gaining a network in the research world, and female researchers need to take the lead…
Power games, gossip, nepotism and theft of research results. Interviews with 25 former and current female researchers at AU suggest that a ‘hazardous’…
Two new voices have joined AU’s board: Jørgen Carlsen, a strong proponent of the values of the Danish folk high school tradition. And Caroline Søeborg…
Albert Kirk Iversen started his own business after graduation – the mobile masseur service Raskrask that hit 450,000 kroner in sales in January. And…
Think big. Several participants in last Thursday’s sustainability seminar urged AU to set a goal of achieving CO2 neutrality in five years. University…
As a student or AU employee, you have to know something about sustainability. And you also have to do something to help make AU more sustainable. This…
While still in med school, Thomas Emmanuel and Mikkel Bo Brent had a bright idea. Here four years later, they’re running a successful business – with…
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