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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…
A new chat line will make getting help even easier.
At a recent meeting, the Aarhus City Council voted to help local residents combat stress by giving them an hour of free mindfulness every week.
The results of an independent investigation of the state of freedom of research at AU were disheartening. Seven percent of the participating…
In this piece, joint union representative Olav W. Bertelsen reminds us that we have joint union representative to ensure decent working conditions.…
In February of last year, the senior management team commissioned an independent survey of the state of research freedom at Aarhus University. The…
He walked the earth. Jesus. But the narrative of his birth in the Gospel of Luke is a rags to riches tale. Kasper Bo Larsen, a biblical studies…
Same procedure as last year...? No, because unlike Miss Sophie in Dinner for One, AU doesn’t turn 90 every year. Omnibus is celebrating the…
Lars Bo Nielsen is dean of the Faculty of Health. He’s also a major Tintin fan and admits that he left a lot of baggage behind – including the…
Some of the experimental pigs in Foulum suffer from schizophrenia, diabetes and Alzheimer’s. And they’re fed with custom feed that’s measured out down…
Very few women become university researchers. So Omnibus asked four women who’ve made it to the top of the research career ladder to tell us about the…
For the first time in AU’s history, Konservative Studenter has won one of the two student seats on AU’s board. The electoral pact with Frit Forum…
Aarhus BSS has already shut down two degree programmes offered in English, and Arts is next in line.
In this statement, three associate professors and a professor from the Statement express their objections to opinions expressed by Emeritus Associate…
It’s time for AU students to cast their digital ballots. But who should get your vote? Here’s a short presentation of the six lead candidates for the…
Like Bruce Springsteen, Lenore Messick was born in the USA. But she met a Dane while she was studying for a PhD at Johns Hopkins University. And when…
Englishman in exile and part-time lecturer at the School of Communication and Culture Conrad Molden calls Aarhus ‘the perfect storm’, and he’s found a…
Rector Brian Bech Nielsen promises that there are no plans to introduce a costume ban at AU.
To celebrate of the university’s 90th anniversary, we dove into the university archives with university historian Palle Lykke in search of AU photos…
Photos of a female student with her face painted black and dressed up as former president Barack Obama were removed from Instagram by AU’s social…
23-year-old Trine Jensen is studying economics at AU. For the past three years, she’s been a mentor, tutor and emotional anchor for 13-year-old Sofie,…
Cathrine Hasse, anthropologist and professor of education studies, wants to understand how sharing our society with artificial beings like robots…
At the Danish School of Education in Emdrup, a counter-clockwise man sits in a tower philosophizing about clockwise coiled creatures. About the…
The international students at this year’s study fair have passed their verdict. According to Omnibus’ annual unscientific survey, the Danes still get…
While DTU (the Technical University of Denmark) offers alcohol-free freshers’ trips, there’s no alcohol-free alternative at AU. Even when the medical…
For the fourth year in a row, the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is offering an alcohol-free freshers’ week trip. All 50 tickets are sold out,…
A carrion beetle in a jar, two pairs of tall rubber boots and a bullet hole-riddled poster are just a few of the knickknacks you’l find in the office…
First there was one. Then two. And now there are three rector’s chains of office. And although wearing three heavy gold chains at once would probably…
There’s a Danish saying that good advice is expensive. But now just-off-the-boat internationals in Denmark can get good advice for free: a new free…
She’s not the type who says ‘no’. Viktorija Kulikovskaja would rather say ‘yes’ – most recently to the job of chair of the Aarhus University PhD…
The new medical students are charged for the entire orientation week programme, including a weekend trip, even though they may only want to join a few…
Two and a half months have passed since a selection committee settled on a candidate for the job of head of the Department of Computer Science. But a…
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…
Inspired by an American example, students have taken the initiative to establish an anonymous helpline. The goal of the helpline is to improve…
In March, the Danish government and the Danish People's Party adopted a law to introduce a DKK 10,000 tuition fee for the Danish study programme for…
Dorthe Hagen Nielsen took a leave of absence from her job as research group coordinator at AU, strapped on a backpack and travelled around Southeast…
Last Thursday, VIVE – The Danish Centre for Social Science Research sent an email questionnaire to every researcher at AU. The questionnaire is the…
PhD students at AU are intensely critical of the new norms for permanent academic hires, which they fear will make it even more difficult to get a…
For students at American universities, university logo clothing is virtually a uniform – and even local residents of many university towns wear…
Tine Haslam Nielsen has been studying biology at AU for five and a half years. She’s also travelled for a total of 14 months and visited 17 countries…
They met in Saint Petersburg, where she was building nuclear submarine components, nuclear power plants and space rockets and he was working on his…
IT student Christoffer Hauthorn has just won the Guldæg 2018 entrepreneurship prize along with the rest of the company Emplate he co-founded alongside…
When the university informs an AU employee that they are in line for dismissal, the union representative must be informed either at the same time or…
Over one-third of the experienced thesis supervisors at Aarhus BSS agree in a new survey.
After the summer holiday, students will be able to get free, impartial help in connection with problems like complaints against a decision of the…
AU hasn’t done a good enough job of making sure that students know who to contact if they experience bullying, harassment or abuse, admits Pro-rector…
The royal couple Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary attended the opening of The Crown Prince Frederik Center for Public Leadership, a new…
AURUS, the IT system employees use to settle their travel expenses, will be replaced by a new system at the end of August.
Emeritus Professor Jens Christian Skou passed away on Monday 28 May 2018 at the age of 99. Skou received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997.
Christina Munk, mechanical engineer and associate professor at the Aarhus University School of Engineering, limits herself to the strictly necessary…
Peter and the Wolf is a hot topic in the Danish media right now. The wolf, because wolves have returned to the Danish countryside. Peter Sunde, senior…
The two founders of the group Studerende and Sorg (Student and grief) have dealt with grief themselves during their studies, and now organise grief…
There were 15 applicants to the position of head of the Department of Computer Science.
Volunteer work is rooted deeply in Danish society. Thirty-five per cent of the Danes do volunteer work. But what drives people to spend time and…
Denmark has a long history of volunteer work dating back to the 1860s, Gert Tinggaard Svendsen explains. He is a professor of political science who…
For over six months, workmen have been banging away on an interior renovation of Residence Hall 1, which was stripped down to the bare walls. Now the…
On 2 May, the senior management team revealed its plans for the expansion of AU’s central campus over the next ten years into a full-blown ‘University…
Helle Colding Seiersen checked her phone in the middle of the night for updates on the progress of the OK18 collective agreement negotiations. As…
Emeritus Professor Roy Edwin Weber’s story is not just about half a century of internationally recognised achievement within the field of…
Last May, Anders S. Barfod, an associate professor of botany at AU, requested permission to create a meadow outside the classrooms where he teaches…
The strike and lockout have been called off. At least until further notice – because as you’ll have heard if you’ve been keeping up with the news, the…
Making the roads in the University Park more bike-friendly doesn’t go far enough, according to SF’s members on the Aarhus City Council, who have…
The controversial renovation of Residence Hall 1, AU’s oldest residence hall, is now complete. Almost all 59 rooms have been rented out, but none of…
AU has allocated DKK 650,000 to research aimed at ensuring a more equal gender balance among the university’s academic staff.
Aarhus University Sport has just made an agreement with fitness.dk which will allow AU students to work out in all of the chain’s centers in Aarhus at…
A scientist taped to a steel shelf, a corduroy shirt draped over a chair and a Madonna in muted colours with a crude wooden spike sticking out of her…
Not surprisingly, the rector is the highest-paid employee at AU, with an annual salary of DKK 1.7 million, followed by the pro-rector and the…
If you want to get really good at a new language, conversation is key. That’s the philosophy behind the network Swap Language, which two AU students…
The March for Science honouring the role of science in society will be held again this year in Aarhus and in Copenhagen.
Even though your teachers would be the target of a lockout, it would also affect you and other students.
On 1 April, Lotte Thue Pedersen took over the post of joint union representative for technical/administrative staff (TAPs) at Aarhus University,…
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Debate for students and employees at Aarhus University
