Omnibus 17

Almost one in five employees at Administrative Centre Arts has been subjected to offensive behaviour, according to the 2022 psychological workplace…

The Agency for Culture and Palaces has decided in favor of listing the University Park and Vennelystparken as works of landscape architecture along…

ChatGPT dishes up the titles of seminal articles by well-known researchers in prestigious journals at the drop of a hat. There’s just one hitch:…

For over a year, lecturers at AU have been able to access data about students’ activity on Brightspace – unbeknownst to the students themselves. A…

After 26 years at Aarhus University, Peter Bakker, associate professor of linguistics, offers a complete and first-hand guide to becoming a permanent…

After a test period of the Brightspace learning platform in 2021, AU forgot to remove a plugin that placed Google Analytics cookies in the students’…

Aarhus University has stopped admitting PhD students from China whose place at AU is financed by the government-funded Chinese Scholarship Council.…

The artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has caused a stir in educational settings all over the world, and, in January, AU reacted quickly by…

The #AUforsker (AU researcher) Twitter account, which gave AU researchers a platform for communicating with followers from all walks of life, shut…

Nine researchers from Aarhus University are on the top-50 list of most-cited experts in Danish media in 2022. Experts on war and foreign policy are…

Jonathan Madsen and Sofie Jensen are two of the volunteers at Studenterlinjen (the student telephone helpline) who offer free, anonymous advice to…

Good feedback is not the responsibility of lecturers alone. That was the main message of a lecture and workshop on feedback held by professor David…

On 1 February, Kristian Thorn will take up the position of university director at AU. He has a long history at the university, which started in the…

Since the ChatGPT was introduced in November, it has astonished the world with its artificial intelligence. Among many other feats, it can write…

AU’s new board chair Birgitte Nauntofte took her seat at the head of the table just as the university posted a preliminary budget shortfall of several…

For the first time since 2019, the university chaplains can invite students to a Christmas Eve celebration with no public-health restrictions. All…

Last week, eight employees at the Danish School of Education were told by management that they were under consideration for redundancy. Another eight…

Aarhus University is launching a new campaign to help prevent exam cheating. In 2021, there were 207 cases of exam cheating at AU, while there have…

Twitter is popular among researchers, but with Elon Musk’s takeover, many are now asking whether they should stay or migrate from the social media…

Russian Studies at AU looks very different today than it did eight months ago, when Russia invaded Ukraine. There is more solidarity, the syllabus has…

Although faculties are busy dealing with inflation, the energy crisis and declining numbers of school leavers – and political initiatives – this must…

Arts has to save money, so the elective course in Old Norse won’t be offered next year. According to Karen Bek-Pedersen, who teaches the course, this…

Public-sector institutions have been directed to turn down the heat to 19° C from 1 October this year. This was announced at a press conference on…

If you’ve come to study at AU from abroad, in addition to getting used to the climate, the food and biking up and down all those hills, you also need…

Price increases and worsening economic conditions will result in significant financial losses for the university in 2022, AU recently announced. To…

Birgitte Nauntofte worked at the University of Copenhagen for 27 years, both as a researcher and in management. And for 12 years, she was the director…

Magdalena Mittermüller, an exchange student from Vienna, Austria learned much more than the curriculum during her year in Aarhus. She encountered a…

The Friday bar at the history department is not a place to start your night out; it reportedly only gets going later in the evening. But the bar staff…