Nine current and three former AU students were among the athletes representing Denmark at the Olympic Games in Tokyo - over ten percent of the Danish…

Merit-based reward has long been celebrated within academia. But the belief that we have a true meritocracy may perpetuate inequalities, argue the…

The special interest organisation Bæredygtigt Landbrug (‘sustainable agriculture’) has summonsed Professor Stiig Markager from the Department of…

It’s confirmed that in total 80 positions have been affected due to the redundancies at TECH, which have affected public sector consultancy the most.…

Rector Brian Bech Nielsen acknowledges that he had a part in the unlawful decision to postpone responding to Information’s freedom of information…

168 junior researchers at Aarhus University are trying to make politicians listen to their concerns about the potential consequences of continuing to…

The Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science has issued a strong rebuke of AU’s ‘highly objectionable’ actions in connection with a newspaper’s…

Connie Hedegaard, chair of the AU Board, stresses that Aarhus University has to put an end to the current spate of scandals, which in addition to the…

The Faculty of Technical Sciences is looking at big budget cuts, especially within the area of public sector consultancy. This is in part due to years…

As a consequence of coronavirus entry restrictions, ten international PhD students are unable to travel to Denmark to start their research projects at…

On April 6, AU will begin gradually opening its doors again to students and employees – with a negative coronavirus test result as an admission…

After Easter, Denmark’s institutions of higher education will begin reopening their doors to students. Students in their final year on degree…

As late as October 2020 the staff representatives asked at a Faculty Liaison Committee (FSU) meeting if there were budget cuts in the pipeline. No…

In an open letter, four union reps from the Department of Environmental Science criticise the university’s decision to effectuate deep cutbacks on…

A DKK 30 million grant from the Ministry of Higher Education and Science will fund the digitisation of Denmark’s natural history collections. At the…

In the herbarium at Aarhus University, plant history is guaranteed for future generations. Neatly archived in folders and glass jars, up to 750,000…

Gender equality in academia is not just about the number of males and females in the research spaces or in the laboratories. It’s also about having…

Once again, both the rector and the dean at Nat have stressed that AU researchers are free to express critique of research practices. Their latest…

The chairman of the board for the Carlsberg Foundation Flemming Besenbacher has disqualified himself from assessing any applications from the Faculty…

On Saturday February 6, the trade unions and the state finalised the new collective agreement, which will apply to state employees for the next three…

A common rule of thumb is that students should knuckle down with their studies for 40 hours a week, on average. But what do you do, if you are an…

Threats sent to a professor at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Rune Hartmann, have been reported to the police by the senior…

It takes more than ten chairs and a conference table to create a good meeting – and it takes more than a Zoom password and a good internet connection…

This year AU adopted a new action plan for gender equality at the university with the main focus being to employ more female researchers. But what is…

The vast majority of natural sciences departments are struggling to employ more female researchers. And several departments are also struggling to…

New restrictions on travel to Denmark mean that right now, studying in Denmark isn’t a valid reason to enter the country. As a consequence, the…

What is it like to be an international researcher in Denmark with a limited social network during the Covid-19 pandemic? At a seminar held by the…