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…

While Aarhus University is working to establish a new campus in Foulum, just outside Viborg, Midttrafik has re-routed and discontinued bus services in…

Making ends meet on a student budget can be challenging under the best of circumstances. And inflation is making it even tougher. To get the most out…

Kalkulerbar is not an intimately located Friday bar with loud voices and a dance floor, but rather a quiet bar in a corridor with large windows. The…

Oleg Yarosh is exempt from military service on medical grounds and was therefore able to leave Ukraine with his family. His wife has been awarded a…

It’s more or less a coincidence that Anastasiia Sydorenko, who has a PhD in psychology and medical sciences, ended up in Denmark on a Ukraine…

MDPhD student Omeed Neghabat is working to improve treatment of cardiac patients by looking inside their hearts – literally. He presented his…

Despite the sterile environment, a penchant for Minttu might be enough to kick start a party. But not every Friday. Nano Bar is an emotionally cold…

The two AU researchers Janice Wang and Ali Amidi have just won the Danish national wine-tasting championship and are on their way to the world…

The University Act should be revised, there should be more basic funding for research, and freedom of research should be examined by a commission.…

Hiring a stripper may seem like harmless fun. But it is part of a constellation of behaviours that contribute to ‘bro culture’, a set of norms that…

The party atmosphere in Katrines Kælder is unavoidable. This Friday bar is known for its engineering-themed wall decorations, large selection of…

The senior management team urges the faculties not to schedule classes on the day of the Regatta. The faculties will avoid doing so as far as…

Since the #pleasedontstealmywork campaign was launched in February this year, neither AU union representatives nor chairs of the AU Research Practice…

The beer is cold and cheap, the tables are long, and behind the bar a golden woman’s leg promises to get you drunk. All the basic ingredients of a…

Aarhus University’s new declaration on the freedom of expression is intended to support researchers and students and to establish a set of core values…

Innovation can be demanding. Especially when working outside your main field, which is the case for many researchers entering the innovation area.…

In February, Aarhus University carried out a WPA survey to evaluate staff satisfaction and well-being. Eighty-six per cent responded that they were…

AU’s current rector, Brian Bech Nielsen, will remain in his post for another five years following a unanimous decision by the appointment committee to…

SU should no longer be something the state gives to Master’s students, and half the country’s Master’s programmes should be reduced from two years to…

Joint union representative and chair of the student council are concerned about the consequences for students and staff. Head of department looks…

A broad parliamentary majority has just signed off on the relocation agreement. Some of the highlights of the agreement where AU is concerned include…

Laurids Kawauchi, fourth-semester student on Russian Studies, managed one month in Saint Petersburg before his exchange programme was abruptly brought…

For the past few years, AU has organised well-attended workshops on the occasion of International Women's Day. In 2019, we met in the beautiful…

Universities in Denmark have suspended all collaboration with Russian and Belarusian universities. Two AU researchers explain that, despite the…

Graphic designer Gudrun Frost-Søgaard and language consultant Lenore Messick have started a fundraiser at AU to support the work of the Red Cross in…

The Department of Management needs to save up to DKK 10 million, which could involve up to 15 employees losing their jobs, says head of department…

13 people have applied for the position of rector at Aarhus University, which will become vacant in August this year. The applications will soon be…

According to the number of reports to student counsellors, students at Aarhus University were subjected to a total of 27 incidents of harassment,…

All AU staff will be required to install a new security app on their mobile devices. The app makes it more difficult for hackers to access to data…

Anne-Mette Hvas, the newly appointed dean at Faculty of Health, joins the previously all-male senior team of five deans at the University. Her…

Next summer, for the first time, it will be possible to apply for a Master’s degree programme in business psychology, which Aarhus BSS has just set…