2015 - The year in review: What happened here?
Omnibus look back at the past year at AU.
January
She came, she saw ...
Jane Kraglund takes up her position as university director at AU.
The day Egon stormed by
A storm called Egon caused 150 square metres of the roof above the entrance to Navitas to collapse. Navitas is a prestigious building on the harbour in Aarhus, where researchers, students and teachers from the field of engineering are gathered under one roof...
A challenge - or a problem?
Equal opportunities at Aarhus University: Status and challenges is the title of a report published by the Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy at the beginning of the year. According to the report, Aarhus University is the Danish university with fewest female associate professors and professors when compared with Aalborg University, the University of Copenhagen and Roskilde University.
March
Outlook, hope and fear
For the final edition of Omnibus in 2015, we have asked seven researchers to point to the most remarkable events of the past year.
We asked: "What is the most remarkable thing that has happened within your field in 2015?" and "What is the most remarkable thing that has happened in society in general in 2015?", while the final question was "2016, what worries you – and what do you hope to see?"
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After Penkowa
The senior management team adopts new regulations to ensure responsible conduct of research at AU.
April
Well padded
The Aarhus University Research Foundation receives DKK 3.2 billion after the sale of the Cheminova chemical manufacturing plant.
Students should have a year for their Master's thesis
“The conditions for our students’ Master’s thesis projects aren’t good enough today,” according to the senior management team, who wish to give students a year to write their Master’s thesis.
June
Good vibrations – not …
The exhibits begin to fall down from the shelves of the Steno Museum as a result of vibrations from the construction work at the Department of Biomedicine's new research building in the University Park.
Organic products on the menu
In just over a year, Director of the Studenterhusfonden Kristina Kristensen and her staff have succeeded in reaching more than 30 per cent organic ingredients in their eleven cafeterias – the goal is 90 per cent in 2020.
August
Overfed!
» …You can’t tell me that the institutions who are today overfed can’t tighten up. Education must make savings just like all other areas."
Esben Lunde Larsen, the new Minister for Higher Education and Science in the Danish newspaper Politiken
overfed verb
Given too much food
The Oxford Dictionary
September
Progress - or something ...
The study progress reform now applies to all students.
"Who is going to pay now, who can afford more …"
The Danish government announces that during the coming national budget negotiations, it intends to propose a DKK 1.4 billion reduction in research funding and a DKK 300 million reduction in the funding of higher education degree programmes in 2016.
October
... And she left again
Jane Kraglund resigns as university director at AU.
November
#AS2015
”Leadership and Technology” is the theme for the Aarhus Symposium 2015. The students behind the event can once again note a solid success that resonates in business and industry.
129.057 kroner
The organisers behind the AU#refugees-welcome appeal can donate DKK 129,057 to the Danish Refugee Council.
Illustrations: Louise Thrane Jensen
Outlook, hope and fear
For the final edition of Omnibus in 2015, we have asked seven researchers to point to the most remarkable events of the past year.
We asked: "What is the most remarkable thing that has happened within your field in 2015?" and "What is the most remarkable thing that has happened in society in general in 2015?", while the final question was "2016, what worries you – and what do you hope to see?"
- READ MORE: AU – and the rest of the world
Translated by Peter Lambourne