The motivation and well-being of lecturers and other teaching staff will be in (online) focus when the faculty invites all interested parties to the annual Education Fair on Tuesday 27 April 2021.

Professor and medical specialist in infectious diseases Trine Hyrup Mogensen from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital investigates why apparently healthy young and middle-aged people in some cases develop severe Covid-19 requiring intensive hospitalisation and may experience serious courses of illness or even death.

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Largest study of its kind shows infected babies face greater risk of neurodevelopmental impairments and underlines need for follow-up care for survivors.

AU’s new learning platform Brightspace is now accessible for teaching staff and course administrators, and registration for Brightspace workshops is open. During the coming months, teaching staff will be able to set up the courses they are teaching in autumn.

During a pandemic it can be tempting to publish new research results as quickly as possible. But at the Faculty of Health at Aarhus University, we still advise researchers to allow their new results to be assessed by their peers before they are published. Despite the WHO calling for the opposite.

A total of DKK 5.6 million. This is what three early career researchers from Health are receiving towards their research projects into key nerve pathways, congenital heart defects and skeletal muscle, respectively. The funding is part of a larger round of funding from the Lundbeck Foundation, which secures two to three years of research funding for particularly talented researchers.

Villum Investigator grants to support research into the food processes and NANO technology of the future over the next six years.

Aarhus University came out of 2020 with a deficit of DKK 200,000. A budgeted deficit of DKK 49 million was thus avoided, partly as a result of the corona lockdown. In financial terms, the year has been somewhat unpredictable, but it has ended well and the university now has room for manoeuvre to continue its strategic development.

On Wednesday 21 April, the first two supervised self-testing sites will open at AU. The sites are for the university’s students and staff only, and are intended as a supplement to the existing public test sites. Eight additional test sites will open at AU’s locations in the coming days.