If you have added public holidays to your calendar in Outlook, and you are using Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010, you should be aware that the dates for Pentecost 2015 might be wrong.

Everyone is welcome to watch the solar eclipse at Moesgaard Museum on 20 March 2015. Safe solar telescopes will be available, and staff and students from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Aarhus University will be available to tell visitors about solar eclipses and make sure everyone views the eclipse safely.

AU will be taking a front row seat on 20 March, when Denmark will have a chance to watch the sun disappear behind the moon’s shadow, one of the most spectacular phenomena in astronomy: a solar eclipse.

The European Research Council (ERC) established by the European Commission has just awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant of 2 million euro to Associate Professor Anders Møller for the project Automated Program Analysis for Advanced Web Applications.

The quality of indoor air at European nursing homes affects the health of the elderly residents’ lungs. For the first time this is shown by research. Aarhus University has undertaken the Danish section of the survey which covers seven countries in the EU.

Connie Sanchez Morillo is joining Aarhus University as an honorary professor. She is currently employed as a researcher at Lundbeck Research in New Jersey, USA, where her focus is on research into depression.

Kari Tanderup has just been appointed professor at Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital. In the professorship she will continue her research into image-guided radiotherapy for cancer patients.

Together with a German and an American colleague, Ole Søgaard from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital has just received DKK 9.9 million from amfAR, The Foundation for AIS Research, to find a cure for HIV. The money will go towards a clinical trial which aims to cure HIV infection.