In an open letter, four union reps from the Department of Environmental Science criticise the university’s decision to effectuate deep cutbacks on…

A DKK 30 million grant from the Ministry of Higher Education and Science will fund the digitisation of Denmark’s natural history collections. At the…

In the herbarium at Aarhus University, plant history is guaranteed for future generations. Neatly archived in folders and glass jars, up to 750,000…

Gender equality in academia is not just about the number of males and females in the research spaces or in the laboratories. It’s also about having…

Once again, both the rector and the dean at Nat have stressed that AU researchers are free to express critique of research practices. Their latest…

The chairman of the board for the Carlsberg Foundation Flemming Besenbacher has disqualified himself from assessing any applications from the Faculty…

On Saturday February 6, the trade unions and the state finalised the new collective agreement, which will apply to state employees for the next three…

A common rule of thumb is that students should knuckle down with their studies for 40 hours a week, on average. But what do you do, if you are an…

Threats sent to a professor at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Rune Hartmann, have been reported to the police by the senior…

It takes more than ten chairs and a conference table to create a good meeting – and it takes more than a Zoom password and a good internet connection…

This year AU adopted a new action plan for gender equality at the university with the main focus being to employ more female researchers. But what is…

The vast majority of natural sciences departments are struggling to employ more female researchers. And several departments are also struggling to…

New restrictions on travel to Denmark mean that right now, studying in Denmark isn’t a valid reason to enter the country. As a consequence, the…

What is it like to be an international researcher in Denmark with a limited social network during the Covid-19 pandemic? At a seminar held by the…

At the Departments of Political Science, Economics and Management, and Business Development and Technology, less than one in three associate…

University courses at the Faculty of Health attract a large number of applications from women, and as a result, more of the departments at the faculty…

DPU – Danish School of Education is one of the few schools at AU which has an equal distribution of men and women in academic positions from post-doc…

In the beginning of October, 107 researchers from Aarhus University signed an open letter stating that they had experienced sexism in the world of…

Unfortunately the university chaplains at AU and Studenterhus Aarhus won’t be able to hold this year’s Christmas party after all due to new covid19…