University of Aarhus 2004
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The rector’s foreword
Welcome to this year’s edition of The University of Aarhus. This report contains a brief description of events that took place at the university in 2005, of new initiatives within research and education and of some of the special features that characterised 2005, including key figures about students and staff, research publications and finance. Six new degree programmes were introduced, two new graduate schools were established for PhD students, and some research areas attracted external grants for five new research centres.
In a number of interviews, we describe different aspects of the special world of research. These feature some of the numerous research projects carried out by university staff in 2005 – such as those at the Centre for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN), where musicians, doctors, theologians, anthropologists, philosophers, physicists, computer scientists and many other professionals work in cross-disciplinary collaboration to learn more about how the brain functions.
2005 was also the year in which a Danish newspaper published twelve drawings of the prophet Mohammed, an event that sparked an international crisis. It also changed the day-to-day life of one researcher at the Faculty of Theology, who faced a multitude of questions from the media. This researcher studies Islam and its manifestations in western countries as exemplified by a book about the approximately 120 mosques or prayer centres in Denmark.
The University of Aarhus is developing all its core areas: research, education and disseminating knowledge to the society at large. 2005 was a very busy, productive year and therefore a good starting point for further development and growth.
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Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen
Rector
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