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Feature article about students attitude to alcohol by university chaplain Elisa Morberg Wejse, Aarhus University, Business and Social Sciences.
They’re supposed to take place once a year. But the frequency of staff development dialogues (SDDs) at AU actually varies a great deal. Jan Skov…
The aim of AU’s new, joint SDD concept is to ensure that you get the annual discussion with your immediate superior to which you are entitled, and…
A group of students from different areas of AU are working together to create a better future for pregnant women and young children in Sierra Leone.…
On 6 September Studenterlauget are opening a new venue where all AU students can celebrate the arrival of the weekend. The new Friday bar is called…
Read more about the annual celebration, Denmark’s Largest Friday Bar and Sports Day, a new welcome pack from the AU, AU's participation in the largest…
They both love teaching the students at the Department of Business Communication; but for Claus Christensen teaching is now no more than a sideline,…
Heading for extinction? The number of part-time and assistant lecturers at the Department of Business Communication has been cut by half during the…
Dean Brian Bech Nielsen has decided to divide the Department of Bioscience into two temporary units, each with its own temporary head.
Dean Brian Bech Nielsen underlines that the decision to divide the department into two temporary units was made following meetings with groups of…
Niels Okkels, a student of medicine, is one of the first people in Denmark to use crowd funding to finance his research. He believes that the method…
Midwife and PhD student Christina Marie Braüner has used crowd funding to collect half of the funding she needs for a field trip to Ghana.
The method is particularly suitable for applied research which the general public can understand, says the Research Support Unit at AU.
If Morten Østergaard wants to encourage greater interaction between the business community and our universities, he should create some new tools to…
Morten Østergaard, the Danish Minister for Science, Innovation and Higher Education, criticised the universities recently for focusing too little on…
Omnibus has asked a number of academic staff, students and technical/administrative staff to give us their personal assessment of the strengths and…
Helen Sword has identified a range of strategies that can help you become a more productive writer:
Researchers and university students are expected to communicate their knowledge in written assignments and research articles. But the writing process…
Why imitate a boring style instead of opting for something which is truly well written? Asks Helen Sword.
It has taken associate professor Annette Skovsted Hansen many years to get over a feeling of inadequacy as an academic writer. But experience – and…
Omnibus has asked a number of AU staff and students whose surname is Sommer (which means “summer” in Danish) to describe their plans for the summer…
A long way from home. Siwi Gayatri from Indonesia has come to Denmark to pursue her dream of a career in research. And she is enjoying the research…
Read more about the number of accidents at work in 2012, the number of applicants for Dean of ST, the new translation robot, new books and much more.
Are you not quite sure what concepts like h index, peer review and open access mean? Or would you like to gain a higher profile in the publication…
As a general rule, they don’t mind studying several hundred kilometres away from the University Park in Aarhus. But when the largest student event in…
Brian Bech Nielsen says that he misses his teaching, and former students describe him as a very lively teacher.
Once the university management has solved the problems encountered by many employees following the process of reorganisation at AU, everyone will be…
Michael Christiansen, the chairman of the AU board, describes the process of reorganisation at the university as a success. But he also acknowledges…
Aase Pedersen, the union representative for the technical and administrative staff at AU, has no doubt about how to change the fact that researchers,…
Per Dahl, the union representative for the academic staff at AU, thinks more decision-making powers should be delegated. Because at the moment there…
Middle managers should be given a mandate to make far more decisions than they do at present, says Niels Lehmann, head of the Department of Aesthetics…
Secretariat assistant Jytte Kragelund, who has worked at Aarhus University for almost 30 years, felt it was relevant for the university management to…
University Director Jørgen Jørgensen is aware that the academic staff want the university’s secretaries to be returned to individual departments. This…
The university management has decided that the Blackboard learning management system should be introduced as a pilot project at BSS from the start of…
By Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, professor of political science and author of the book “Tillid” (“Trust”)
An IT fraudster found out the log-in code and password of an academic assistant at AU via a so-called phishing mail. The fraudster then ordered trips…
That’s the start of an e-mail sent to Omnibus by Brian Bech Nielsen’s colleague Flemming Besenbacher, who was director of iNANO until 2012 and is now…
Hard-working and conscientious. That’s how Brian Bech Nielsen describes himself as a young student. But is it true? Omnibus has asked two of his…
Psychological workplace assessment 2012
Most of Dean Brian Bech Nielsen’s career has been spent in the north-west corner of the University Park in Aarhus. And when he takes another step up…
Read more about the editorial committee and the members of the committee.
You are now reading the first issue of the new official newspaper of Aarhus University: Omnibus. The name means “for everyone”, and that’s exactly…
You’ll be moving in three to five years’ time. That was what staff at several departments of Science and Technology were told when the academic…
Read more about MatchPoints Seminar. How to find your union representative. Take a test and find out if you are gender biased. Learn more about…
During the past winter the Studies Administration office has been reorganised. So does this mean that all the problems have now been solved? No, says…
Fruit farmer Stig Bjarne Sørensen takes daily pleasure in the freedom he enjoys when working under an open sky in the Årslev experimental fruit farm…
By Linda Greve, special consultant and team leader at the AU Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Co-author of the book “Forandrende…
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