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Up to 30 students, primarily from the business administration and law programs, have contracted COVID-19 over the course of the past week.

Just eighteen months after sowing, the ‘Fuld Flor’ strip of wildflowers on Ny Munkegade had become so species-rich that it could be used for teaching…

Three of the five professors who have been appointed to review Denmark’s response to COVID-19 are from Aarhus University.

There are about 1,200 students from all over the world at AU’s campus in Herning. Jesper Bjørn Schlæger is a BSc Economic and Business Administration…

What events should you make sure you don’t miss, and where’s the best place to study? An Emdrup student and former chair of BarBund shares her best…

Where can you find cheap coffee, where are the best places to study, and what events are not to be missed? Three students share their top tips for new…

Due to the coronavirus crisis, AU will be welcoming significantly fewer international students next semester – and 500 AU students have already had…

A semester abroad is about getting to know a new culture, a new university and new friends. But for many exchange students this spring, their semester…

Fifty-one of 129 new apartments centrally located in Katrinebjerg are reserved for PhD students and postdocs.

A number of canteens and cafés at AU are now open again after months of lockdown. Here’s a guide to where you can go when hunger pangs start gnawing.

Starting today, students at the country’s universities will be able to use reading rooms, group rooms and libraries to students over the summer. Right…

On Tuesday, sculptor Bjørn Nørgaard checked out the foundation that will bear his sculpture ’Ars – Scientia – Iustitia’. The sculpture itself, which…

Dean Eskild Holm Nielsen, dean of the Faculty of Technical Sciences, believes that science should be governing principle for the organisation of…

Phase 2 of the gradual reopening of the country begins on Monday. A reopening that will basically bypass the university – which the rector hadn’t…

The internal consultation on AU’s action plan for diversity and gender equality 2020-21 has begun. The action plan focusses on improving gender…

Most of the AU Summer University courses will be offered online this year.

Due to the risk of infection, this spring’s salary negotiations have been moved from physical conference rooms to digital ones. What will that mean…

400 Health, Nat and Tech researchers, including postdocs and PhD students, have been allowed to return to their test tubes at AU, along with technical…

There should have been 50-60 people in the audience in the auditorium for Trine Block Mattesen’s PhD defence. Instead, three years of research…

Initially, the organisers postponed AU’s rubber raft regatta to June 26. But now they’ve announced that there will be no battle for the Golden Bedpan…

Last week, the government and the Danish parliament agreed to start gradually reopening society. And this includes research labs.

Three PhD students at the Department of Agroecology in Foulum encourage their colleagues and fellow students to use the Ecosia search machine, which…

As a result of millions of kroner in cutbacks at the Department of Clinical Medicine, about 10 staff members are set to lose their jobs this month.

Anders Møller, professor of computer science at Aarhus University, won an Elite Research Prize and 1.2 million kroner for his program analysis…

So says Kira Stine Hansen, deputy director of the Royal Danish Library, who describes the situation as “more critical than we think is acceptable”.…

PhD student Juan Pablo Pacheco Esnal is in quarantine outside Marseille right now. He and his French-Uruguayan girlfriend were among the evacuees…

Kristian Pedersen, professor of space science, will be the first dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences. His new job starts on April 1st.

When Steffen Junker, associate professor of biomedicine, was elected as union representative at AU in 2003, he had never heard about anyone burning…