Omnibus, April 2016

Cecilie Lerkilde began by stopping her voluntary work. Then she gradually withdrew from her social life with friends and classmates from her degree…

Rector Brian Bech Nielsen, who is also Chairman of the Board of the Aarhus University Research Foundation, delivered a real surprise at the…

Aarhus University Research Foundation (AUFF) has just sold the chemical factory Cheminova to the American chemical group FMC Corporation for DKK 8.5…

The new police requirements for alcohol licences are making life difficult for several of the smaller Friday bars at AU. One of them is Arabar at…

Your Friday bar must live up to a new set of rules in the new semester. The rules are intended to "clarify roles and responsibilities" at the Friday…

How would you assess your well-being as a student at Aarhus University in 2014? 13,647 out of 34,510 full-time students at AU have participated in the…

Eighty-eight per cent of the students at AU who responded to the questionnaire indicate in the survey that they generally feel very comfortable with…

Seventeen percent of the students who have responded to the questionnaire almost always or often experience severe stress symptoms in connection with…

Eighty-eight per cent of the students generally find their fellow students to be welcoming, as against 86 per cent in the study environment survey…

A degree course in reality Rikke Rasmussen has taken part in several reality television programmes while taking her university degree. And she has had…

Charlotte Løchte had spent 20 years in the labour market, the last 11 years as a department secretary at AU, when she took the plunge and began as a…

Jeppe Mikkelsen is 23 years old and was elected to the Folketinget (the Danish parliament, ed.) in 2011 for the Danish Social Liberal Party. At the…

What’s the proper balance between academic and having fun? Omnibus met with a study group from Arab and Islamic Studies.

At Political Science the tutors are responsible for forming the study groups. Tutors Lucas Poulsen (third semester) and Daniel Møller (seventh…

Omnibus meets up with the two tutors Gitte Tindbæk, a seventh semester molecular medicine student, and Signe Petersen, a seventh semester molecular…

Peter Musaeus is an associate professor at Health. As part of his research into Health students’ learning he has worked with study groups.

By Lieve Vermeulen, seventh semester student of the study of religion and Kirstine Pedersen, eleventh semester student of classical archaeology, on…

If you want to make sure you get a ticket to this year’s Aarhus Symposium then you’d better get your computer out and write a short essay. Last year…

Esben and Erik never say no to a scientist who comes by the office with a crazy idea. The two research technicians at the Department of Chemistry can…

Anne Marit Waade, an associate professor of media studies at the Department of Aesthetics and Communication will soon be able to hold a start-up…

Media studies researcher Anne Marit Waade and her research team will investigate why TV viewers in other countries are fascinated by Danish TV series…

Many colleagues who are hesitant about joining the funding application race might actually develop themselves as researchers – and also as leaders –…

In less than a year the number of laboratory trainees at AU has fallen from seventeen to six, meaning the university may find it difficult to recruit…

Cafeteria review: A thorough review requires comprehensive research. So the two intrepid Omnibus reviewers put their stomachs on the line and ate…

The diagnosis has been made. And the senior management team is proposing strong medicine to cure the organisational maladies that an internal expert…

Persistence pays off when it comes to seeking decision-making influence – that must be the conclusion reached by the student politicians at AU after…