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…

Where do you find the best coffee, the cheapest beers, and the coolest study spaces? Here are some tips from two seasoned students to help you feel at…

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…

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…