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2011.12.06 | Research
Guide to boosting exports to Germany
While everybody is hoping for economic growth, the websites of Danish businesses are getting in the way of increasing exports to Germany, Denmark’s largest export market. Cultural as well as linguistic and technical problems have been identified by a new research and innovation project. Now a guide is to help businesses succeed in the German…
2011.12.01 | Research
Potential for organic exports to China
A research project conducted at Aarhus University, Business and Social Sciences has identified what motivates Chinese consumers to choose organic food. The reasons and values are precisely the same as those motivating consumers in the Western world, making it easier for Danish organic producers to target the Chinese market.
2011.12.05 | Research
Researchers use laser to ‘photograph’ the forbidden passage of electrons
In quantum mechanics, particles can travel through areas that are forbidden according to classical physics, a phenomenon called tunnelling. Researchers at Aarhus University and ETH Zurich in Switzerland have now mapped precisely where the particle emerges after its passage.
2011.11.30 | Research
New approach to early diagnosis of oral cancer
Along with researchers from Australia and Norway, a research team at Aarhus University has found a new, simple and non-invasive method to diagnose oral cancer at an early stage, one of the most important parameters for successful treatment of the cancer.
2011.11.23 | Awards
Business and Social Sciences gains international recognition
The international magazine, European CEO, has recently elected Aarhus University, Business and Social Sciences as the most innovative business school in Northern Europe.
2011.11.23 | Awards
Researchers from Science and Technology nominated for Danish Research Results of the Year 2011
Videnskab.dk has selected three research results from Aarhus University – all from Science and Technology – among the ten nominations for the Danish Research Results of the Year 2011. The winner is determined by readers of the website, and you can help select the winner by voting at videnskab.dk no later than Sunday 27 November.
2011.11.14 | Research
iNANO students win biodesign competition at Harvard University
Five Bachelor’s degree students from the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Centre (iNANO), Aarhus University, won the BIOMOD Grand Prize in the international BIOMOD Design Competition at Harvard University with their design of a new type of nanomedicine.
2011.11.08 | Research
PFC substances increase risk of breast cancer
A new research project involving Greenland women with breast cancer shows for the first time a clear link between the risk of breast cancer and exposure to perfluorocarbons found in products such as raincoats, pizza trays and baking paper. More substances ought to be prohibited according to the Aarhus University researcher behind the study
2011.11.08 | Research
Cancer cells sent on space journey
Aarhus professor currently testing thyroid cancer cells in weightless conditions in Chinese spacecraft.
2011.11.16 | Research
Researchers solve economic puzzle
Two researchers from Aarhus University, Business and Social Sciences have solved a puzzle for international economics research. Why do some figures show that export increases productivity when others suggest the opposite?
2011.11.10 | Research
Challenge: feeding nine billion people
Danish knowledge, experience and efficiency in agricultural production will be extremely valuable at a time when the growing number of people on our planet need to be fed in a healthy and sustainable manner.
2011.11.03 | News from the management
New director at iNANO
On 1 February 2012, Professor Niels Christian Nielsen takes over the leadership at the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Centre (iNANO), Aarhus University, from Professor Flemming Besenbacher, who has been appointed Chairman of the Carlsberg Foundation’s Supervisory Board. Just a few days prior to taking up his new appointment, Professor Besenbacher…
2011.11.01 | Research
iNANO strengthens ties to China
During a recent roundtrip in China, Professor and Director Flemming Besenbacher from the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center, iNANO, was appointed Overseas Director and Honorary Professor at Tongji and Jiangsu University, respectively.
2011.10.27 | Research
Knowledge about low energy greenhouse production to be spread in the North Sea region
The countries surrounding the North Sea are collaborating on reducing energy consumption in greenhouses in a new project led by scientists from Aarhus University.
2011.11.03 | Research
Depression: Mindfulness can revolutionise treatment
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy prevents relapses in recurrent depressions. New results from Aarhus University, Business and Social Sciences place the effects of this psychological treatment on an equal footing with medicinal relapse prophylaxis.
2011.10.19 | Research
Growing up in the country helps to prevent asthma
Children who grow up on a pig or dairy cattle farm have a natural vaccination against the form of work-related asthma from which farmers frequently suffer. This has now been proved for the first time ever by researchers from Aarhus University.
2011.10.17 | Research
New research provides a better understanding of the regulation of our genes
In collaboration with an Australian research group, a research team at Aarhus University has characterised a hitherto unknown and revolutionary way by which cells can regulate the formation of proteins.
2011.10.19 | Research
Einstein’s “spooky action” improves precision measurements
Researchers at the Cluster of Excellence QUEST (Centre of Quantum Engineering and Space-Time Research) at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, in collaboration with scientists from Spain, Italy and Denmark, report in the journal Science that they have overcome the shot noise limit.
2011.10.14 | Reseach policy
Business and Social Sciences climbs up Financial Times ranking list
For the second year in a row, Financial Times has placed the MSc programme in Finance & International Business on the list of the world’s best master’s programmes in management. The programme is offered by Aarhus University, Business and Social Sciences.
2011.10.12 | PhD Students
China Theory Week: Rumors and connections – in practice and in theory
The rumor is true! The Computer Science Department at Aarhus University just hosted “China Theory Week” for some of the best Ph.D. students in the world. A great opportunity for young computer science researchers to make new connections - and to do research on connections
2011.10.13 | Research
Nobel Prize in Physics has links to Aarhus University
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 was awarded for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe – knowledge that astronomers at Aarhus University are among the best in the world at interpreting.
2011.10.07 | Research
Ancient climate change has left a strong imprint on modern ecosystems
As Earth’s climate cycles between warm and cool periods, species must often move to stay within suitable conditions. A new study published in the prestigious journal Science and led by researchers at Aarhus University mapped how fast species have had to migrate in the past to keep up with the changing climate.
2011.10.11 | Research
New knowledge about cellular stress response
In a joint effort, a researcher from Aarhus University and an American researcher have uncovered how a specific network of “messenger molecules” are inhibited simultaneously in the cell during cellular stress.
2011.10.12 | Awards
International prize for biodiversity research awarded to Aarhus University scientist
Professor Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus University, has been awarded the Ebbe Nielsen Prize for his research into how biodiversity is affected by climate change. He received the prize at a ceremony in Argentina.
2011.10.11 | Grants
Two new basic research centres at Aarhus University
The Danish National Research Foundation has granted two new Centres of Excellence to Aarhus University. Professor Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard has been awarded DKK 55 million for the Stellar Astrophysics Centre and Professor Bo Barker Jørgensen has received DKK 59 million for the Centre for Geomicrobiology