Catrine Rumohr is from Norway and works as a Relocation Officer and Expat Partner Advisor at AU Research Support and External Relations. She would…

Michelle Williams is from New Zealand. She is head of Department at the Department of Food Science.

Müge Özbek Akçay, postdoc at the Department of Psychology and behavioural Sciences, is from Turkey where the majority do not celebrate Christimas.…

Taylor Azizeh is an international student from USA and studies arctic ecosystems and marine mammals at the Arctic Research Center, Department of…

AU’s campus just got a new green oasis: AU Garden. AU Garden will bring employees and students together around growing things – from an organic…

As a result of an uncontested election, Buildings Manager Uffe Pilegård Larsen from the Department of Agroecology in Flakkebjerg is the new board…

All parties in the Danish Parliament have agreed on the allocation of the research reserve funds for 2020. The agreement is good news for the…

She had a seat at the table when the board voted to put AU through the most brutal round of budget cuts the university has ever suffered. She helped…

As a result of this year’s election, new representatives will take over four of the five seats on the university board that belong to the university’s…

Biologist Rasmus Ejrnæs will host the weekly nature program ‘Vildspor’ on the new radio station Radio4, which came on the air last week.

November is election time for students and employees at Aarhus University. This year, only one of the student spots on the AU Board is up for…

A university that makes its voice heard more in public debate, at least one new interdisciplinary research centre and educating students in the…

The university’s perception of students as rational animals following the straight path of common sense through their studies contrasts starkly with…

That antiseptic hospital smell still lingers in the walls of Aarhus’ former municipal hospital. But not for long: builders are hard at work on AU’s…

In the Hopper Building, the lightsabers of Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker light up – in red and blue – when the restroom on the corridor is busy. This…

You’d have to be a fool (or a vegetarian) not to enjoy a Danish pork roast – juicy on the inside, crispy on the outside. But the licorice thing (Why…

Campus life at AU is informal – you’re on a first-name basis with your professors, and you can even run naked through the University Park. To get the…

AU’s biologists have been pushing for more untamed nature into the University Park for a long time. And now a little strip of wildflowers is blooming…

As a student, you might spend a lot of time wandering around campus looking for a nice, quiet spot to study. Here’s a tip: check out Museum Ovartaci…

Save the date: Saturday August 31st. AU’s research foundation invites you – and everyone else in town – to a huge street party on the grounds of the…

Denmark’s well-organized society and free education are attractive. But it’s hard to crack the code of the language, the weather is chilly – and so…

There are some deadlines you just don't want to miss. And there are events you’re really going to regret missing out on. There are also days where you…

After the new higher education and science minister Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen puts down her champagne glass and rolls up her sleeves, one of the first…

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (Social Democrats) is presenting her new government today, including the new higher education and science minister –…

Mette Frederiksen (Social Democrats) is Denmark’s new prime minister, and tomorrow she’ll announce her new government, including the new higher higher…

On the new committee for diversity and gender equality at AU, each faculty is represented by one woman and one man. Associate Professor Ebbe Bødtkjer…

PhD student Tobias Sandfeld from the Department of Bioscience in Aarhus doesn’t believe that AU can become sustainable unless measures aimed at…

The single letter ‘d’ separating mord (murder) from mor (mom) can literally be fatal. But linguist Ocke Bohn can’t hear the difference – and he’s not…

A new PhD project has analyzed employment trends at Danish universities over the past two decades for the first time. While the proportion of tenured…

Reality is in the eye of the beholder. In this case, the eyes of four new AU employees from other countries who participated in AU’s workshop for new…

Close to half of AU’s employees are not familiar with the university’s gender equality policy, reveals a survey by an AU researcher. It also reveals…

Rector Brian Bech Nielsen speaks about quotas at AU with about the same enthusiasm as fishermen discussing North Sea cod quotas. In other words, he…

AU’s rector is pleased that the new WPA shows that stress is down, but he’s surprised that more than one in ten employees thinks that they aren’t free…

There’s no dialogue about gender at AU, men have an easier time gaining a network in the research world, and female researchers need to take the lead…

Power games, gossip, nepotism and theft of research results. Interviews with 25 former and current female researchers at AU suggest that a ‘hazardous’…

Two new voices have joined AU’s board: Jørgen Carlsen, a strong proponent of the values of the Danish folk high school tradition. And Caroline Søeborg…

Albert Kirk Iversen started his own business after graduation – the mobile masseur service Raskrask that hit 450,000 kroner in sales in January. And…

Think big. Several participants in last Thursday’s sustainability seminar urged AU to set a goal of achieving CO2 neutrality in five years. University…

As a student or AU employee, you have to know something about sustainability. And you also have to do something to help make AU more sustainable. This…

While still in med school, Thomas Emmanuel and Mikkel Bo Brent had a bright idea. Here four years later, they’re running a successful business – with…

Two astrophysics students working on their Master’s theses in a German WW II barracks at AU, some plastic to cover up the mould and a basement with…

A working group has just presented a proposal for a new entrepreneurship service for students at AU. Now they’re waiting for the proposal to be…

Everyone else has to fight over the remaining fourth. This is the conclusion of a new study by the think tank DEA. Maria Theresa Norn, head of…

Associate Professor Simon Kristensen does pure number theory. And that’s not a field foundations are lining up to fund, because it can be difficult to…

His research can mean the difference between life and death for victims of tuberculosis in West Africa. But he still has trouble raising funding for…

Where does it come from? The money that pays for research in Denmark. Some of it is allocated by politicians every year. Some of it by foundations,…

At a well-attended staff meeting in the Main Hall, Rector Brian Bech Nielsen explained why he was proposing to split the Faculty of Science and…

Researchers don’t always have an easy time of explaining their work.

But that’s precisely what the PhD students in the competition 3-Minute Thesis…

Between New Year’s and mid-February, AU uncovered 40 separate cases of fraudulent attempts to purchase goods from companies in the university’s name.

Free Danish courses will no longer be available to the university’s international employees. This means that AU’s employees will now have to pay up to…

In future, fewer exams will be assessed by external co-examiners at the Faculty of Health. The faculty management team has decided to cut back on…

In this opinion piece, political science student Esben Andersen criticizes the senior management team’s plans to put cleaning in 51 AU buildings to…

The climate must set the agenda. This is the message of the Green Student Movement, which co-organised a national climate strike today in several…

A little over a week ago, thirty cleaning assistants at Aarhus BSS were informed that the senior management is considering inviting private companies…

If an increasing number of operational tasks are outsourced in the coming years, the argument goes, management will have more time to focus on…

Vinnie Nørskov, director of the Museum of Ancient Art, writes on behalf of the employees of the museum in this critique of the senior management…

Only about 40 people attended the conference on freedom of research that was held on January 28 in the Lakeside Lecture Theatres. Including the seven…

The grade averages of male and female students at Aarhus BSS didn’t change after exams were anonymised. Nevertheless, the faculty intends to keep…

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