Omnibus, April 2016

Like all universities in Denmark, Aarhus University will have to educate fewer young people from 2025. This is a result of the political agreement…

Compass Group has won the tender to run canteens at Nobel Park, the Aarhus School of Dentistry, Aarhus BSS in the University Park, and Stakladen/the…

The academic publishing house Taylor & Francis has sold access to its research articles to tech companies for AI development. Researchers who have…

The universities do not believe that converting 20 per cent of admissions to Master's degree programmes for working professionals is attainable. As a…

At the Faculty of Health, gendered terms such as formand, talsmand or mandskab are going to be a thing of the past. The faculty has introduced…

AU’s decision to ban collaboration with researchers working in the area of genome sequencing in China affects many researchers at the Department of…

A recent report from the research and analysis center VIVE documents that sexism and unwanted sexual behavior are a sad reality for many PhD students…

As a result of strained finances, the school management team at the School of Culture and Society has decided to hand over danmarkshistorien.dk to…

We need to show that AU is a place for everybody, regardless of our background, gender identity or sexual orientation, says Caroline Adolphsen, who is…

A new researcher movement with over 100 researchers from universities across Denmark has been formed to promote academic freedom. AU researcher Steen…

The selection and service at the canteens in the Nobel Park and at the School of Dentistry and the Social Sciences canteen at Aarhus BSS will be…

Simon Kærslund Terp’s positions as deputy judge in Aalborg and senior consultant on the SKAT inquiry commission meant he was well on his way to…

There seem to be several parallels between research and playing handball when you talk to the future Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences,…

Following a deficit of DKK 292 million in 2022, Aarhus University has recovered its financial health and came out of 2023 with a surplus of DKK 262…

PhD student Emaan Ghias has many times packed her bags and moved to a new country to pursue her academic ambitions. She was born in Pakistan, grew up…

Thirty-seven per cent of female PhD students have been exposed to gender-related offensive behaviour at Danish universities, according to a new…

At the beginning of March, 345 researchers – including editors, reviewers, contributors and readers – ended their collaboration with the journal…

Aarhus University has received more than 19,000 quota 2 applications. And 12 per cent more applicants than last year have listed an AU degree…

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…