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…

Incoming Arts dean Maja Horst will start her new job on 1 June. And although the Faculty of Arts has been battered by political reforms and cutbacks…

For now, AU is taking a hard line on the use of new artificial intelligence chatbots, and it will continue to do so throughout the summer exam season.…

This month marks the tenth anniversary of the first issue of Omnibus. We are celebrating the occasion by giving the newspaper a new look. Here's a…

Arts will need to save DKK 60 million before 2026. DKK 48 million of that will need to be cut from the payroll budget. The faculty is also looking at…

Aarhus University ended 2022 with a deficit of DKK 292 million according to the annual report recently approved by the board. Losses in the financial…

Aarhus BSS must reduce costs by DKK 40 million by 2026 as a result of decreasing student intake. Two departments will be hit particularly hard and…

PhD students from China can no longer get a place at Aarhus University if they are supported by the state-funded Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC).…

The Faculty of Natural Sciences has to make major budget cuts. To balance its budget, the faculty has to cut DKK 37 million annually, and the dean…

When you relax onto your picnic mat and open a beer at this year’s Regatta, spare a thought for the two students behind the event, Lasse Juul…

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…

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…

All five faculties have contributed in their own way to the management’s draft for how the university plans to honour the government’s relocation…

Having to either cut or relocate what amounts to 6 percent of the student places at AU by 2030 is painful enough. But if AU has to deliver an…

You’ve probably noticed the election posters that have popped up all over town in town and on campus. Some of these candidates want your vote for the…

Becoming a doctor wasn’t in the cards for Anne-Mette Hvas. But she ended up studying medicine nonetheless, driven by a desire to make a difference.…

Admissions to German and French programs at AU have been declining for years. And in the most recent round of admissions, they reached a new low. The…

As part of the government’s education reform to move degree programmes away from the cities, the government will close 3,900 international study…

Aarhus University has not managed to reduce stress among PhD students. Since 2013, the number of stressed PhD students has risen and in a new survey,…

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) reshuffled the government before noon on Monday, 16 August. The changes came about due to Joy Mogensen’s decision…

Nine current and three former AU students were among the athletes representing Denmark at the Olympic Games in Tokyo - over ten percent of the Danish…

Merit-based reward has long been celebrated within academia. But the belief that we have a true meritocracy may perpetuate inequalities, argue the…

The special interest organisation Bæredygtigt Landbrug (‘sustainable agriculture’) has summonsed Professor Stiig Markager from the Department of…

It’s confirmed that in total 80 positions have been affected due to the redundancies at TECH, which have affected public sector consultancy the most.…

Rector Brian Bech Nielsen acknowledges that he had a part in the unlawful decision to postpone responding to Information’s freedom of information…

168 junior researchers at Aarhus University are trying to make politicians listen to their concerns about the potential consequences of continuing to…

The Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science has issued a strong rebuke of AU’s ‘highly objectionable’ actions in connection with a newspaper’s…

Connie Hedegaard, chair of the AU Board, stresses that Aarhus University has to put an end to the current spate of scandals, which in addition to the…

The Faculty of Technical Sciences is looking at big budget cuts, especially within the area of public sector consultancy. This is in part due to years…

As a consequence of coronavirus entry restrictions, ten international PhD students are unable to travel to Denmark to start their research projects at…

On April 6, AU will begin gradually opening its doors again to students and employees – with a negative coronavirus test result as an admission…

After Easter, Denmark’s institutions of higher education will begin reopening their doors to students. Students in their final year on degree…

As late as October 2020 the staff representatives asked at a Faculty Liaison Committee (FSU) meeting if there were budget cuts in the pipeline. No…

In an open letter, four union reps from the Department of Environmental Science criticise the university’s decision to effectuate deep cutbacks on…

A DKK 30 million grant from the Ministry of Higher Education and Science will fund the digitisation of Denmark’s natural history collections. At the…

In the herbarium at Aarhus University, plant history is guaranteed for future generations. Neatly archived in folders and glass jars, up to 750,000…

Gender equality in academia is not just about the number of males and females in the research spaces or in the laboratories. It’s also about having…

Once again, both the rector and the dean at Nat have stressed that AU researchers are free to express critique of research practices. Their latest…

The chairman of the board for the Carlsberg Foundation Flemming Besenbacher has disqualified himself from assessing any applications from the Faculty…

On Saturday February 6, the trade unions and the state finalised the new collective agreement, which will apply to state employees for the next three…

A common rule of thumb is that students should knuckle down with their studies for 40 hours a week, on average. But what do you do, if you are an…