News archive
2011.10.12 | Forside au.dk
Climbing up the Times Higher Education ranking list
Aarhus University has moved up forty-two places in the latest edition of the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings.
2011.09.21 | Research
Quantum physics problem was a hard nut to crack
Researchers at the Department of Physics and Astronomy have finally solved an old problem in quantum physics about when certain atoms and molecules can bind to each other.
2011.09.16 | Research
Aarhus University researchers get photons to interact with each other via just a few atoms
A team of only three researchers from the Ion Trap Group at Aarhus University has demonstrated that it is possible to switch on and off the passage of individual photons through a medium consisting of a few hundred cold atoms using quite weak light fields.
2011.09.13 | Media
The Ole Rømer Observatory cordially invites you to attend its centenary
On 15 October 2011, it is a century since the Ole Rømer Observatory was inaugurated. To mark the occasion, the observatory is holding an open house event with many centennial activities on Friday 14 and Saturday 15 October.
2011.09.16 | People
2011 honorary alum: Lene Vestergaard Hau
In a number of much talked-about experiments, Lene Vestergaard Hau has succeeded in slowing down and later even stopping light particles altogether. Her research career has, however, not been characterised by slowness; in fact, since being awarded her PhD degree in solid-state physics from Aarhus University in 1991, it has been full steam ahead.
2011.09.09 | Events
Aarhus University honours researchers and students at annual celebration
Aarhus University makes Lene Vestergaard Hau honorary alum of the year in connection with the traditional annual celebration. The university is conferring awards and honorary titles to ten prominent researchers and students.
2011.09.07 | Students
Denmark’s largest Friday bar and Sports day
Denmark’s largest Friday bar and Sports day takes places in the university park on september 9th 2011.
2011.09.07 | Research
Digital lab bench now being used in a laboratory
Researchers at iNANO, Aarhus University, have just started using a combined computer and laboratory bench. This will not only streamline their research, but also kickstart the transition to the paperless laboratory.
2011.08.31 | Awards
Flemming Besenbacher receives distinguished American chemistry award
Professor Flemming Besenbacher has been awarded the Langmuir Lecture Award 2011.
2011.08.30 | Research
Efficient use of nature’s packed lunch
Newly hatched chicks use the packed lunch they bring with them from the egg best if their first meal is postponed.
2011.08.29 | Research
A new spin on topological insulator surfaces
A team of researchers headed by Aarhus physicist Phillip Hofmann has discovered that properties of the topological insulator bismuth selenide could provide the solution to how a new computing technology called ‘spintronics’ can work at room temperature.
2011.08.22 | Research
New protein complexes shed light on quality control in human cells
Researchers at Aarhus University have identified and characterised two novel protein complexes associated with the human RNA exosome, an important player in the cell's quality control of RNA.
2011.08.16 | News from the management
Aarhus University moves up the ranking list
Aarhus University has moved up twelve places in the Shanghai ranking list of the world’s best universities. With its placing as number eighty-six, the university is thus among this year’s high jumpers on the list.
2011.08.15 | Research
PhD student wins international engineering competition
Lasse Bjerg, a PhD student at the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Centre (iNANO) and the Centre for Energy Materials (CEM), Aarhus University, has won the title of EUSPEN International Challenge Winner 2011 at the Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing, UK.
2011.08.08 | Research
Millions of small RNAs paint a bigger picture of human gene activity
Scientists have discovered the origin of a new group of small RNAs (sRNAs) that contain genetic information.
2011.08.08 | News from the management
EU supports new degree programmes at Aarhus University
In fierce competition with universities from all over Europe, Aarhus University has secured support from the European Union for two international degree programmes in journalism and sustainable farming.
2011.08.08 | Research
Sea ice in the Arctic is far from stable
A new research project involving scientists at the Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, has shown that the summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has been far from stable during the last 10,000 years.
2011.08.03 | Research
Digging Into the Past: AU excavation team finds history underground
An excavation team, led by Aarhus University professor Andres Dobat, heads to Germany to piece together a story of politics, violence and religion.
2011.08.01 | Research
Save money and increase yield with smart traffic in the field
A new decision support system can help farmers optimize their traffic in the field. The farmer can thereby increase machine efficiency, avoid soil compaction, save on pesticides whilst increasing yield.
2011.08.01 | Research
Prestigious award for trapping antihydrogen
The American Physical Society has awarded the John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research 2011 to Jeffrey Hangst and Paul Bowe, Department of Physics and Astronomy.
2011.07.08 | Research
Statisticians from Aarhus University most cited in the world
According to a brand-new survey, the discipline statistics at Aarhus University ranks among the global elite.
2011.07.08 | News from the management
New head of the Department of Geoscience
With the appointment of Professor Søren Bom Nielsen as the head of the Department of Geoscience, all twelve positions as heads of departments at Science and Technology have now been filled.
2011.07.06 | Research
iNANO research is this month’s Thomson Reuters ”New Hot Paper”
An article in Nature Materials by Associate Professor Liv Hornekær and her research group has now been added to the Thomson Reuters list of ”New hot Papers” in Materials Science.
2011.07.01 | Research
Protein pumps copper, silver and gold
Researchers from Aarhus University are the first in the world to map the structure of a protein that pumps copper ions across the cell membrane.
2011.07.05 | News from the management
Six more heads of departments appointed
Five new heads of departments have now been appointed at Science and Technology as well as the new head of the Department of Economics and Business at Business and Social Sciences.