Generative AI (GAI) tools are here to stay, according to AU. Therefore, you’re allowed to use GAI in your exams, unless the academic regulations or…

Now we know how enrolment caps will be distributed across the faculties, but there are still many unanswered questions regarding how sector resizing…

AU has adopted seven principles for using generative artificial intelligence (GAI) to help staff and managers use these tools responsibly. The…

After the chaos last year, when Johnson’s concert was cut short after just a few songs, the Student Council has decided to reduce the number of…

The sector resizing will affect the five faculties at AU very differently. Arts has to reduce its number of student places by nearly 18 per cent,…

Like all universities in Denmark, Aarhus University will have to educate fewer young people from 2025. This is a result of the political agreement…

Compass Group has won the tender to run canteens at Nobel Park, the Aarhus School of Dentistry, Aarhus BSS in the University Park, and Stakladen/the…

The academic publishing house Taylor & Francis has sold access to its research articles to tech companies for AI development. Researchers who have…

The universities do not believe that converting 20 per cent of admissions to Master's degree programmes for working professionals is attainable. As a…

At the Faculty of Health, gendered terms such as formand, talsmand or mandskab are going to be a thing of the past. The faculty has introduced…

AU’s decision to ban collaboration with researchers working in the area of genome sequencing in China affects many researchers at the Department of…

A recent report from the research and analysis center VIVE documents that sexism and unwanted sexual behavior are a sad reality for many PhD students…

As a result of strained finances, the school management team at the School of Culture and Society has decided to hand over danmarkshistorien.dk to…

We need to show that AU is a place for everybody, regardless of our background, gender identity or sexual orientation, says Caroline Adolphsen, who is…

A new researcher movement with over 100 researchers from universities across Denmark has been formed to promote academic freedom. AU researcher Steen…

The selection and service at the canteens in the Nobel Park and at the School of Dentistry and the Social Sciences canteen at Aarhus BSS will be…

Simon Kærslund Terp’s positions as deputy judge in Aalborg and senior consultant on the SKAT inquiry commission meant he was well on his way to…

There seem to be several parallels between research and playing handball when you talk to the future Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences,…

Following a deficit of DKK 292 million in 2022, Aarhus University has recovered its financial health and came out of 2023 with a surplus of DKK 262…

PhD student Emaan Ghias has many times packed her bags and moved to a new country to pursue her academic ambitions. She was born in Pakistan, grew up…

Thirty-seven per cent of female PhD students have been exposed to gender-related offensive behaviour at Danish universities, according to a new…

At the beginning of March, 345 researchers – including editors, reviewers, contributors and readers – ended their collaboration with the journal…

Aarhus University has received more than 19,000 quota 2 applications. And 12 per cent more applicants than last year have listed an AU degree…

We must do everything we can to prevent adversary states gaining access to the research and advice on which the Danish government and parliament base…

PhD student Eva Kjærgaard won over both the jury and the audience with her engaging and articulate presentation about her research into plastic air…

Three AU researchers find the latest campaign by PET on “research security” quite troubling, and are also disappointed in seeing that it has received…

Peter Dalsgaard conducts research into people’s use of technology in creative processes. A field that for many years has remained somewhat niche. Now…

The number of students at Aarhus University who need special educational support (SPS) continues to increase, year after year. Most of the students…

Background checks on new staff members from selected countries in certain fields and more control over who can access what are some of the measures AU…

The threat of espionage from adversary states is high and persistent, according to the Danish Security and Intelligence Service, who has recently…

Over 600 AU students couldn’t get the help they needed in the autumn semester because of unusually slow case processing at the agency that approves…

42-year-old PhD student Sune With Christensen has just started his research project on the ethics of war and autonomous weapons, which he has worked…

Camilla Lønborg Nielsen started her BSc in nanoscience at AU when she was just 17. Just eight disciplined years later, she had her PhD. But now she’s…

Aarhus University doesn’t currently have a contingency plan for conducting exams when normal operations are disrupted – by unusually bad weather, for…

Was the Viking Age in reality as portrayed in 'Vikings'? How did Denmark end up ceding Sweden and Norway? Has there been nothing but progress since…

A now former employee of the Aarhus School of Dentistry at Aarhus University has been convicted of corpse desecration and given a seven-day suspended…

Both Queen Margrethe and Crown Prince Frederik have studied at Aarhus University. Queen Margrethe lived in the park dormitories while studying at the…

Det Særlige Bygningssyn has proposed to list a number of Aarhus University buildings and a large part of the University Park for preservation again.…

939 researchers and members of academic staff from the Nordic countries have declared their solidarity with the Palestinian people in a declaration of…

The three current staff representatives on the Aarhus University Board all wanted to serve another four years in the post. But only Peter Balling and…

A new energy community at AU wants to install solar panels on the roofs of three buildings. Students, staff and residents of Aarhus can get a share of…

We need a safe space to talk about diversity in the curriculum, says the Arts Council, who have helped put the topic on the agenda at the faculty.…

As part of AU’s action plan on gender equality, diversity and inclusion, Arts is keen to discuss incorporating more diversity into the curriculum.…

Can it really be true that Aarhus University had to lay off staff because the stock markets fell? No, because the university’s financial reserves…

In July, Winnie Soon received a major international award for her three-part work Unerasable Characters Series, which explores the politics of…

Since it was launched last October, AU’s carpooling club – which enables staff and students to share lifts to and from work – has been used for around…

Associate professor Jacob Hesselvig Fredsøe did not only run the DHL Relay Run. Because he's a data scientist, he couldn't resist downloading the…

Where do you find the best coffee, the cheapest beers and the coolest study spaces? Here are three seasoned students' tips for navigating student life…

AU increased the number of student places available in this year’s round of admissions, and has seen an increase in applications to programmes taught…

Hasse Hansen has a Master’s degree in astronomy from Aarhus University and was part of the team behind AU’s first student satellite, Delphini-1.…

Sophus Helle – Assyriologist, translator and cultural historian – is one of the four early-career researchers from AU who has received an…

With the recent reform agreement, what started out as a radical and drastic intervention in the university sector has ended up being a more realistic…

Professor Michael Bang has put together the team that will lead the new and updated study of democracy and power in Denmark. The project will run for…

Two degree programmes will be paused at the Danish School of Education (DPU), which will also merge the two smallest departments with other…

Until recently, Aarhus University’s new campus, University City, was a hospital. This means that some staff and students have had to say goodbye to…

AU’s space adventure now involves several satellites, almost 50 students, and quite a few sleepless nights. The objective of the space programme is to…

Professor Michael Bang Pedersen from Aarhus University has been selected to head a major research project on power and democracy in Denmark. He…

The local newspaper Aarhus Stiftstidende, in collaboration with the Tivoli Friheden amusement park, will soon announce the winners of the 17th annual…

On 1 June, Ida Cecilie Jensen, who is a PhD student at the Department of Ecoscience, won the international final of this year’s research communication…