Aarhus University’s board meeting on the Thursday before last was the first meeting with Connie Hedegaard sat at the head of the table. Although she…

The Student Council's new chair Emil Outzen was in his own words very goal-orientated when he chose to study marketing after graduating from business…

This year, 52-year-old Lars Bo Nielsen could have celebrated 30 years at Rigshospitalet. That is, if he had not applied for the position of dean at…

A mixture of inclination and need was what led Lars Bo Nielsen towards a career in research while studying medicine at the University of Copenhagen…

The State and University Library, which is incidentally now called the Royal Library – Aarhus University, has opened its doors to an 800 m2 study…

Being a student and entrepreneur at the same time is often associated with pressure. Especially when the company really starts to gain momentum. IT…

The Centre for Cyber Security (CFCS) under the Danish Defence Intelligence Service assesses that there is a high-level threat of cyber spying against…

While other state employees are saying goodbye to three employer-paid days of holiday, the senior management team at AU has no plans to cancel the…

In February you can be winner of the best costume at AU, see civilised civil war unfold in the Super Bowl, meet cool women in research – and not least…

If the university board adopts the plan at its meeting on 5 April, this summer AU Library will be transferred to the Royal Library. The librarians are…

A consultancy team led by AART architects from Aarhus will advise Aarhus University’s research foundation’s real-estate company (Forskningsfondens…

Each year, thousands of students from abroad come to AU for shorter or longer study periods. The International Office at AU recently invited four…

A bill which will limit Danish students from taking more than one post-secondary degree is being me by massive protests from students all over the…

After an eighteen-month long tug of war between the dean, students and employees, the future of the Department of Business Communication has finally…

Are you staying in Denmark over the holidays? Why not try a traditional Danish Christmas along with other Danish and international students, when the…

The result is normally more or less given beforehand when it comes to electing student representatives to AU's board: The two seats on the board go to…

Professor of Law Jørgen Albæk Jensen, who is chairman of the Election Committee at Aarhus University, describes the decision by all candidates on the…

"When did you know? What did your parents say? How many people have you been to bed with?" Prejudices and piquant questions can make it difficult to…

Political science student Andreas Gram Drachmann from AU is helping the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate secure victory in the swing state of…

Once again, Omnibus presents a subjective and hand-picked selection from among the overwhelming range of events and arrangements at AU. This month you…

We all know how easy it is to feel a bit lost in AU's myriad of Friday bars, lectures, parties and other temptations. With a new monthly initiative,…

For the second year in a row, medical students at AU are arranging the Beat Cancer Run in the University Park in Aarhus. All money from the run on 29…

The new Café and Deli serves deliciously “yummy” brownies, “arty” drinks and proper barista coffee; but conceptually it falls between two chairs –…

It must be when the report is delivered that determines when university researchers can talk about the research they deliver to government agencies…

The university rectors have received criticism from different quarters for not being visible enough in the ongoing debate about researchers' freedom…

A new type of phishing email is circulating, in which fraudsters claim to be senior executives in an attempt to get employees to transfer money to…

Before the summer holidays, there was disagreement about the future of the Department of Business Communication. But now Dean Thomas Pallesen and the…

Two current cases show the importance of the university managements standing together to safeguard freedom of research and the unhindered right of…

Says one of the six students with a diagnosis or disability that Omnibus has met. Despite anorexia, depression, schizophrenia, dyslexia, Asperger’s,…

The number of students applying for special educational support (SPS) through AU has been fairly constant for the past three years. But compared to…

Every time one of AU’s prizes of honour goes to a woman, four go to a man. An associate professor at AU thinks this sends an unfortunate signal and…

Approximately 15 employees from three departments risk being fired in the near future as a result of a new round of cutbacks at Science and Technology…

A large part of the financing of the Danish government's 2025 plan is to be found in savings in the Danish Students’ Grants and Loans Scheme (SU). The…

The dean of Science and Technology has just announced layoffs at three departments. At Health, the Department of Clinical Medicine has recently gone…

The Stereology and Electron Microscopy Laboratory at the Department of Clinical Medicine is to close, and majority of its employees are to lose their…

With a minimum average mark of 11.1, cognitive science has taken first place among the AU degree programmes with the highest minimum average mark for…

At the University of Copenhagen, students who feel unjustly treated or need help navigating the jungle of rules can find help and guidance from an…

Student Marlene Kongsted ended up having to write an extended exam paper after a number of unfortunate mix-ups involving course registration and…

The marriage has been in trouble for a long time. Not because they don’t care about each other and the children - because they do. They have also…

From the turn of the year, the language programmes at the Department of Business Communication at BSS will become part of Arts. The University Board…

Six of the seven committee members are new, while one member continues.

Study environment is too narrow a phrase that only directs itself at students, according to Associate Professor Rikke Toft Nørgård, who carries out…

A good physical study environment is more than just power outlets, good chairs and inviting lounge areas. A degree programme’s environment has a…

AU's joint union representative for AC-TAP and academic staff, Olav W. Bertelsen, is satisfied with the gradual phasing-in of the DKK 280 million cost…

The senior management team has just received the board’s approval for a DKK 280 million cost reduction plan to be implemented over the next four…

Women are underrepresented among the academic staff at AU, and a new action plan adopted by the senior management team will now try to rectify this.…

As a new initiative, the psychological WPA 2016 included a question on whether employees had been subjected to repeated abusive, offensive or…

University Director Arnold Boon believes that the management at the administration has a job to do when it comes to clarifying tasks and more…

The first rungs on the way up the academic career ladder are often characterised by fixed-term positions and uncertainty. It can also be difficult for…

More than half of AU's employees work considerably more than required by their contract. That figure does not surprise Rector Brian Bech Nielsen. As…

As was the case with the WPA in 2012, Arts and BSS are the two faculties where employees experience the greatest problems with the psychological…

Rector Brian Bech Nielsen has noted the increase in employee well-being. But he also notes that the employees are still too stressed and the…

Our two hungry reviewers from political science were enthusiastic about the good use of ingredients and delicious choices that met them at the IT…

The Centre for Teaching and Learning at AU is running a pilot project studying how study environment, stress, and the students' own planning affects…

One of the lecturers who accepted the advice offered by the Centre for Teaching and Learning and actively tested their methods and tools is Assistant…

An increasing number of students are seeking out the student chaplain at Aarhus University. Many of them come because they feel trapped by the…

A new PhD study from AU makes clear that there are significant differences on a group level between student personalities across fields of study. The…

The refugee crisis in Europe is a core topic in the teaching at European Studies, where students were recently given a unique opportunity to…

In the future, undergraduate students at AU will have to complete their degree programme within the prescribed time + a maximum of one year. They must…

Tell me what you are studying and I’ll tell you who you are. New research from Aarhus University shows that students on the various study programmes…

AU's Committee for Education is ready with a proposal for implementing the study progress reform at AU. Enforced registration for courses and exams…

Omnibus sent two vegetarian foodies to try the Social Sciences Cafeteria’s culinary buffet. The two reviewers found the information about the…

University historian Palle Lykke could. So now the arches must again be taken down again and then rebuilt.

The study progress reform is intended to get students to complete their studies faster, but the students predict that it is not going to work.…

Once again it is time to fill out the questionnaire on which the psychological workplace assessment (WPA) at AU is based. But in contrast to the…

Political Science student Mads Hareskov has just been elected the new chair of the Student Council at Aarhus University. His first big job is to help…

See AU student Tanja Valentin Francis Burke’s private photos from Athens, where she spent two weeks taking part in voluntary work to help the many…

Associate Professor Olav W. Bertelsen from the Department of Computer Science will take over the post of joint union representative after Per Dahl.…

Goodbye. Per Dahl will resign from the post of joint union representative for the academic staff at AU on 1 March.

In October, Omnibus wrote about former AU student Camilla Hessellund Lastein, who was going to create a kind of Spotify for study books. Now her beta…

For philosophy student Tanja Valentin Francis Burke, just observing the refugee crisis in the media is not enough. She stood at border when the wave…

Omnibus has talked to architect Jean Pierre Bolívar. Since 2008 he has been a partner in BUSarchitektur and has been involved in major university and…

Several groups of refugees do well in the labour market. Almost as well as the average for Danes, if we take the employment rate 15-20 years after a…

During the exam period there is increased pressure on the student places around the campus. So the students were critical of the decision to axe 40-50…

Lene Leth Thomsen landed her dream job as a newly graduated MSc in Economics and Business Administration. But she quickly found out that even after…

It’s like being in a cosy den, with books in the windows and soft sofas at Dale's Café. The food is prepared from good-quality ingredients, and the…

Department Head at the Department of Biomedicine Thomas G. Jensen did not hesitate to back up on the idea of a monthly department seminar when it came…

In 2011, six smaller departments merged to become what is today the Department of Biomedicine with 450 employees spread across six buildings. But how…

AU's new university director is named Arnold Boon, he is 48 years old and comes from a position as faculty director at the Faculty of Health and…

Chairman of the Student Council Sune Koch Rønnow expects to have his Bachelor done and dusted within a year – after more than seven-and-a-half years…

Archaeology student Caroline Elisabeth Fisker has completed her Bachelor six months quicker than the prescribed study period by taking up to 15 extra…

For the final edition of Omnibus in 2015, we have asked seven researchers to point to the most remarkable events of the past year.

The senior management team has decided that Omnibus should be digitised. So if you’re sitting with a print version of the newspaper, you now have the…

Three internal members continue on AU's board and are joined by two new faces. The election was once again characterised by a low turnout and many…

Marine biologist Jakob Strand from the Department of Bioscience in Roskilde has been honoured with the Environmental Award 2015.

… the amount that students and employees at AU succeeded in raising for refugees in Denmark and in the world's hot spots. Two students and two…

The Greenhouses in the Botanical Gardens in Aarhus won aoa.dk’s competition for the title of best family experience in Aarhus.

Once again this year, the Studenterhus Aarhus is providing the premises on Christmas Eve for both Danish and international students to celebrate a…

This is the first time that Assistant Professor Mathias Clasen has seen a student get an article published in a scientific journal. But it is not the…

Perhaps you’ve noticed them. The posters with jargon and dialect from Western Jutland (like the one above) or Aarhus, which even Danes have to stop…

The Mathematical Cafeteria feels like a staff room with homely food. The quality is high and the price is low, so Omnibus' reviewers are impressed.

AU student Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen has just had a scientific article published in a recognised international journal. The article is based on his…

Before long, surgeons will take their further education and training in a completely new, purpose-built operating theatre in the Donation Unit at the…

The undertaker contacts the Donation Unit and they agree on a time for delivery of the dead body (or cadaver in medical terminology, ed.). As is…

After several years of problematic working conditions, the conservators in the Donation Unit at the Department of Biomedicine can look forward to…