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A recent registry study from MEPRICA demonstrates that poor mental health increases the risk of new heart attacks.

2013.09.25 | Health and disease

Poor mental health increases the risk of new heart attacks

Patients who have had a blood clot in the heart are at increased risk of dying or developing a new cardiovascular event if they are also in poor mental health. This was shown by a recent registry study from Aarhus University.

Photo: Lars Kruse Photo: Lars Kruse Photo: Lars Kruse

2013.09.19 | Events

We are celebrating the spirit of the university

Aarhus University’s 85th anniversary paid tribute to academic freedom, an enquiring approach, and a sense of rebellion.

Photo: Lars Kruse

2013.09.12 | Grants and awards

It is about daring to show your enthusiasm

If you want to make people curious about your research, you must dare to show your audience how excited and enthusiastic you are about your work. When professor of economics Philipp Schröder - the recipient of the 2013 Aarhus University Anniversary Foundation Research Communication Prize - gives his guided tour of the realm of international…

Photo: Lars Kruse

2013.09.11 | All AU units

A pioneer of education

Lisanne Wilken is the kind of teacher who can easily incorporate an EU summit and the Eurovision Song Contest into her teaching for Danish and international students of European Studies. And she has now won the Aarhus University Anniversary Foundation’s Educational Honorary Award in 2013 for her pioneering educational work in the international…

The African tsetse fly is not as innocent as it looks. A bite from the fly can cause the fatal disease sleeping sickness.

2013.09.13 | Health and disease

African sleeping sickness parasites strike back

Assisted by Danish researchers, Belgian researchers have discovered how parasites in African tsetse flies cheat an otherwise intelligent immune mechanism in humans to cause the deadly sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis). The discovery provides more knowledge about how to combat the disease which constitutes a major problem in Africa.

Desire, passion and engagement are still the forces that drive research, education, talent development and knowledge exchange. We must keep the enthusiasm in the eyes of our students and staff glowing, says rector Brian Bech Nielsen.

2013.09.10 | Public/Media

We must protect the spirit of the university

The reason for our existence is our independent search for knowledge and insight and, most importantly off all, the education of qualified Bachelor’s Master’s, and PhD graduates, the new rector Brian Bech Nielsen writes in the preface for Profile 13/14.

It means a lot for dedicated experts that there’s a strong study environment in the town they decided to settle down in. Aarhus University has a really good reputation worldwide as far as that goes, says Kasper Verdich Lund, software designer and Tech Lead Manager, Google.

2013.09.10 | Public/Media

AU is a valuable neighbour for Google

The leading experts of the IT world prefer to work close to flourishing study and research environments.

2013.09.17 | Public/Media

The Silicon Valley of food will be located in Aarhus

Aarhus University is a member of a new cluster partnership on food. Businesses, food organisations, public organisations and Aarhus University will collaborate to create innovation and promote Denmark as a leader in the food sector.

Professor Andreas Roepstorff has studied both biology and anthropology, and divides his research work equally between these two fields. He is director of Interacting Minds, an interdisciplinary centre with 40 affiliated researchers from a wide range of fields. Vibeke Fulgsang Bliksted is a psychologist who has worked with young schizophrenia patients for nine years at OPUS, a clinic for young schizophrenia patients , at Aarhus University Hospital. She is also an associated researcher at Interacting Minds (IMC). She recently completed her PhD.

2013.09.10 | Public/Media

RESEARCH - Interacting Minds

The AU interdisciplinary centre Interacting Minds is generating new insight into what happens to people when they interact with each other. What goes on in their brains? And what happens to their feelings? And how does communication affect all this?

A Dream Team is selected on he basis of a week-long course for up to twenty-four students. The course introduces the student to laparoscopic surgery, and they are tested at the end of the week. Eight students are invited to join the Dream Team programme, which takes place in the eighth semester. The students on the team are assigned to an experienced surgeon and participate in operations in his or her department at least once a week.

2013.09.10 | Public/Media

EDUCATION AND TALENT - Invests in talent development

Aarhus University has strategic focus on solid research-based degree programmes for all students combined with supplementary academic activities and challenges for the most talented and motivated students.

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