The election to the Aarhus University board will take place in November 2019. Two employee representatives will be elected from among the academic staff, with one of them coming from the so-called “wet” academic fields which cover Science and Technology and Health.

Today, Aarhus University is celebrating its 91st anniversary with visits from the distinguished alumna Marianne Dahl and the Danish Minister for Higher Education and Science, Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen, among others. Read more about the distinguished alumna, the award winners, and the speeches here.

The work on AU’s physical development is progressing according to plan. The faculties and departments involved are in the process of identifying their needs and options in connection with the upcoming relocations. Here you can read about specific relocations and projects.

Anders Sjørslev Schmidt, PhD student at Research Center for Emergency Medicine, has just presented his new study on maximum-fixed energy shocks for cardioverting atrial fibrillation at the ESC congress in Paris. Watch Anders explain the study in two minutes in this interview from the congress.

Researchers from the Research Center for Emergency Medicine are launching a new research project dealing with the use of defibrillators on children.

The working group for entrepreneurship has come up with a number of proposals and principles for the future AU incubator for entrepreneurship and what it is to offer. The working group has now completed its work, and the Business Committee (the Senior Management Team) has made the final decision on the name of the new incubator – The Kitchen.

Mogens Jensen, Minister for Food, is launching ten projects totalling DKK 90 million. Among other things, the projects aim to find solutions to reducing greenhouse gases from agriculture. Researchers from Aarhus University are involved in all ten projects.

Intravascular versus surface cooling for targeted temperature management after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: an analysis of the TTH48 trial.