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A researcher had published a dissertation on the basis of some empirical studies. However, when other researchers subsequently wanted to delve deeper…
Conflicts between principal supervisors and current or former PhD students can end with complaints concerning breaches of responsible conduct of…
Lack of information about sources, sloppy work and insufficient data have been the typical content of cases dealing with possible breaches of…
Special advisers in responsible conduct of research will soon be a reality at all AU faculties. Researchers will be able to confidentiality make use…
That seems to be the conclusion following months of discussions about the structure of BSS’ large departments (School of Business and Social…
If you already know that you will at some point take an internship as part of your studies, here is some good advice on how to succeed
The study progress reform can force more students at BSS to choose not to take an internship as part of their Master’s degree programme.
This is one…
No more internships and student jobs which prolong time to degree
If it is possible to talk about fashion within science, then you can’t ignore the phenomenon of TED Talks. This May, Aarhus University will host the…
Malene Bro wanted to find an internship and had a plan. But then came the study progress reform and suddenly she didn’t know whether she would be…
The end of Niels Baymler’s temporary position at the Psychiatric Department in Risskov in August will also mark the end of a tradition that has,…
It was the job advert for an internship at the coming Danish Museum of Rock Music in Roskilde that finally led to all the pieces falling into place…
The tradition of taking an internship is not as widespread at ST as it is at other AU degree programmes.
"So this is an area where we students will…
When the study progress reform and its requirement for 30 ECTS credits per semester comes into force in September, Master’s degree students will have…
"It is regrettable that the study progress reform deprives students of the opportunity to influence their own profile when getting a foothold in the…
According to the Deputy Director of the Confederation of Danish Industries (DI) Charlotte Rønhof, there is no doubt that a newly qualified graduate is…
Even though many medical students have previously taken a locum tenens position (a temporary position as a substitute doctor, ed.) during their…
"We will do everything we can to make sure this doesn’t happen again," says Head of AU Buildings Charlotte Lyngholm, after a young female cyclist died…
Two students from the Department of Education felt it was high time that someone tried out their cafeteria at Emdrup. They killed two birds with one…
Researchers affiliated with AU now have the opportunity to get their research published as an e-book via the Open Monograph Press, which is a…
How do you make small talk with an esteemed professor while fetching coffee? How do you get involved in exciting research projects? And how do you…
The new chairman of the Student Council is named Sune Koch Rønnow. He knows a lot about potsherds and old Greek statues, as he will graduate as a…
The first electronic engineering students in Denmark will be able to take a complete education with virtually no need to meet up at the university…
Since the beginning of the year, Ole Eggers Bjælde has taught according to the principle of blended learning. The students are very satisfied with the…
Washington Post, Al Jazeera and The Guardian. Preben Bertelsen has appeared in all the media that are worth mentioning. In fact, a whole lot has been…
Is your department head, deputy director or anyone else allowed to read a private email sent from your employee mailbox? What about the private emails…
The student run-organisation FOSIA (Forum for Social Innovation Aarhus) holds an annual case competition. This year it attracted 100 students from all…
US President Barack Obama is interested in hearing more about the method for preventing the radicalisation of young people which Professor Preben…
Assistant Professor Casper Andersen has a hard time concentrating on his academic article at the moment, knowing that the lecturers and students at…
By Laurits Støvring Andreasen, sixth semester physics studentIllustration: Morten Voigt
Dear Sofie Carsten Nielsen
Do you know why the sky is black…
During March, students from the student association Christian Union for Students will be putting Christianity on the agenda at different degree…
He was born the year the last shot was fired in WWI. Took a higher doctoral degree in medical science at Aarhus University the same year that WWII…
"Navitas is one of the most distinctive and visionary buildings in Aarhus and we are proud to be able to offer a unique setting and experimental…
Last year’s winners were a team of students from Aarhus University, so why not let that result begin a tradition when it comes to the Beat the Elite…
Two study partners from medicine hungrily dug into the buffet at the School of Dentistry cafeteria. They were generally satisfied with the good and…
The shielder, the co-ordinator and the agenda setter are stereotypes. And as postdoc Lise Degn emphasises, that’s obviously not the case with real…
How do today's department heads actually do their jobs in an institution with traditional academic values? They simply make a choice between two…
They are the first Danish students to take a Master’s degree programme in Neuroscience and Neuroimaging at the Sino-Danish Center in Beijing, China.…
No matter what you might collect, there is no way you can match Morten Elmeros. His collection is possibly the largest in Europe. And it is a bloody…
Two months have passed since the student movement “A different university" staged a blockade of the Rector's Office at AU. On 26 January the rector…
Puncture wounds, internal bleeding and third degree burns. Seriously injured victims littered the scene as the first class of medical students taking…
AU has had to see itself overtaken by the University of Copenhagen, Aalborg University and Roskilde University when it comes to the number of female…
Several department heads at AU deny that gender plays a role when they assess applicants for associate professor and professor positions. But…
Statistically things do not look good for postdoc Vivi Raundahl Gregersen. There is not a single female professor at the Department of Molecular…
How do you keep calm during an acute accident, so you can provide advanced first aid and coordinate the treatment of accident victims?
That is what…
‘Stanford Peace Innovation Lab’ is written in red letters under the Aarhus University logo at the main entrance to AU Herning.
Aarhus University and…
The party and lecture society at Science and Technology, known in Danish as TÅGEKAMMERET, will in their own charming way spread a little Christmas…
Jane Kraglund, who comes from a position as managing director of Odense University Hospital, starts as new university director at Aarhus University on…
Staff in the communications department in the central administration will be moved to the senior management's own secretariat and two new…
The British AMBA accreditation agency has bestowed its seal of approval on the School of Business and Social Sciences (BSS). AMBA specialises in…
54-year-old Connie Hedegaard, who up until the end of October had spent the past four years as the very first EU commissioner for climate action, took…
How can vultures survive by eating carrion when the same diet would lead to serious food poisoning or even death for most other living creatures?
In March, the voluntary student-run organization FOSIA (Forum for Social Innovation Aarhus) will hold it’s annual case competition for the third year…
Want to help change the world? Want to discuss your visions together with 200 of the sharpest young minds in the world and 600 influential…
AU has a new university chaplain. This year she will celebrate Christmas Eve in the Student House.
It all began in the queue in the Nobel Park cafeteria with an unfortunate comment about sausages. And now they have more than 4,000 Facebook followers…
Plenty of prejudices about humanists came into play when the two cafeteria reviewers René Bærentsen and Søren Amstrup visited the Nobel Park…
Here you can read Omnibus’ summary of what took place between two Wednesdays in mid-November when the student movement ‘A different university’ put a…
For a young Syrian couple, the road to escaping the horrors of war began with an exchange programme at Aarhus University. A road paved with check…
This semester, 2,200 members of the teaching staff at Arts, ST and Health were given the keys to the virtual classroom Blackboard, which will form the…
"Difficult, visually repugnant and anti-user-friendly." That is the harsh criticism of Blackboard that Christian Waldstrøm, associate professor at the…
A first mover at the cutting edge of using the latest new technology in teaching is probably not how most people would think of 61-year old associate…
Department Head Erik Steen Kristensen from the Department of Agroecology views greater transparency in the principles behind the allocation of budgets…
Department Head Erik Østergaard Jensen from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics views the administrative support of the departments as…
Rector Brian Bech will hold an open meeting on Wednesday 22 October between 10:00 and 12:00 noon in Aulaen in Aarhus.
Omnibus has toured the campus in Aarhus to ask the students how they try to bring quality into their degree programme.
Far too many students refuse to accept responsibility for creating quality in their education. Instead they let student councils and student…
By Sara Dybris McQuaid, assistant professor of British and Irish history, society and culture, and Lone Koefoed Hansen, associate professor of digital…
Student Counsellors' Office at AU
Student Counsellors' Office
The hunt for perfection and the performance culture embedded in our society are contributing reasons to why seventeen per cent of the students at AU…
The increase in stress levels among AU's students is a cause for concern, says Pro-Rector for Education Berit Eika. An in-depth study of the…
Helle Colding Seiersen, joint union representative for all members of HK (the National Union of Commercial and Clerical Employees) at AU, wants to…
Cafeteria review: There could be a better selection and it’s difficult to forgive a coffee machine that’s not working. But the food is tasty and the…
On 1 October at the Western High Court in Aarhus, three students were found guilty of making a bomb threat against Campus Fuglesangs Allé in December…
Nørre Vosborg in Time and Space is the title of a mammoth work recently published by Aarhus University Press.
Students from Scandinavian Languages and Literature and Comparative Literature at Arts hope that the online journal Littuna.nu will pave the way for a…
Claus Palle, joint union representative for all the administrative staff members in the central administration and those employed in the centres is…
Members of the academic staff at the Department of Education (DPU) are pleased with the prospect of improved autonomy in continuation of the senior…
Cecilie Lerkilde began by stopping her voluntary work. Then she gradually withdrew from her social life with friends and classmates from her degree…
Rector Brian Bech Nielsen, who is also Chairman of the Board of the Aarhus University Research Foundation, delivered a real surprise at the…
Aarhus University Research Foundation (AUFF) has just sold the chemical factory Cheminova to the American chemical group FMC Corporation for DKK 8.5…
The new police requirements for alcohol licences are making life difficult for several of the smaller Friday bars at AU. One of them is Arabar at…
Your Friday bar must live up to a new set of rules in the new semester. The rules are intended to "clarify roles and responsibilities" at the Friday…
How would you assess your well-being as a student at Aarhus University in 2014? 13,647 out of 34,510 full-time students at AU have participated in the…
Eighty-eight per cent of the students at AU who responded to the questionnaire indicate in the survey that they generally feel very comfortable with…
Seventeen percent of the students who have responded to the questionnaire almost always or often experience severe stress symptoms in connection with…
Eighty-eight per cent of the students generally find their fellow students to be welcoming, as against 86 per cent in the study environment survey…
A degree course in reality Rikke Rasmussen has taken part in several reality television programmes while taking her university degree. And she has had…
Charlotte Løchte had spent 20 years in the labour market, the last 11 years as a department secretary at AU, when she took the plunge and began as a…
Jeppe Mikkelsen is 23 years old and was elected to the Folketinget (the Danish parliament, ed.) in 2011 for the Danish Social Liberal Party. At the…
What’s the proper balance between academic and having fun? Omnibus met with a study group from Arab and Islamic Studies.
At Political Science the tutors are responsible for forming the study groups. Tutors Lucas Poulsen (third semester) and Daniel Møller (seventh…
Omnibus meets up with the two tutors Gitte Tindbæk, a seventh semester molecular medicine student, and Signe Petersen, a seventh semester molecular…
Peter Musaeus is an associate professor at Health. As part of his research into Health students’ learning he has worked with study groups.
By Lieve Vermeulen, seventh semester student of the study of religion and Kirstine Pedersen, eleventh semester student of classical archaeology, on…
If you want to make sure you get a ticket to this year’s Aarhus Symposium then you’d better get your computer out and write a short essay. Last year…
Esben and Erik never say no to a scientist who comes by the office with a crazy idea. The two research technicians at the Department of Chemistry can…
Anne Marit Waade, an associate professor of media studies at the Department of Aesthetics and Communication will soon be able to hold a start-up…
Media studies researcher Anne Marit Waade and her research team will investigate why TV viewers in other countries are fascinated by Danish TV series…
Many colleagues who are hesitant about joining the funding application race might actually develop themselves as researchers – and also as leaders –…
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Debate for students and employees at Aarhus University
