Dear all, Here are spring impressions from IOOS.

Every year, the Aarhus Institute of Advances Studies (AIAS) receives fellows from all over the world, who come to find space to immerse themselves in their subjects, make new relationships and make AU visible on global research stages. Now, 23 new fellows from AU will forge stronger links between AIAS and the university.

Both students and teaching staff are losing motivation. In their article in the online newspaper Altinget, Berit Eika and Brian Bech Nielsen write that politicians should discuss the gradual reopening of reading rooms, associations/clubs and research activities when negotiating a further reopening of society.

The yellow warning banner at the top of mails to AU employees from external senders will have a short life. AU IT has decided to remove it on the background of negative reactions from many employees. It’s still important that we’re all alert to the dangers of phishing mails.

On 8 March, Aarhus University marked International Women’s Day by hosting the online conference ‘Gender Equality at AU’ for employees and managers.

How does pain, missing teeth or dryness in the mouth affect our nutrition? And is there a correlation between what we eat in childhood and our risk of developing maxillofacial pain and headaches as an adult? This is the area which Lene Baad-Hansen, who is a new professor at Aarhus University, investigates.

After 25 years in the position, Marianne Hokland is stopping as the faculty's coordinating occupational health and safety manager. Here she looks back on a quarter of a century during which employee safety has been both a labour of love and also a lot of elbow grease and cooperation.