2014.09.15 | Awards
Jørgen Vig Knudstorp has been named the 2014 Aarhus University Distinguished Alumnus. He rescued LEGO from a downward spiral through respect for the company’s core identity. As a young and rather inexperienced CEO, Knudstorp succeeded in restoring a confused company to its true self: the little plastic brick and the endless possibilities for…
2014.08.28 | Knowledge exchange
Losing an unborn child is a traumatic experience, and many women who go through this have to be admitted to psychiatric treatment. Such are the results of a new study from Aarhus University.
2014.08.07 | Research news
With the first day of school and the institution of the new school reform just around the corner, the matter of our children’s schooling and well-being is highly topical. At the end of August, TrygFonden’s Centre for Child Research hosts a conference focusing on precisely this topic. Over the course of two days, Danish and international…
2014.07.24 | Health and disease
Professor Preben Bo Mortensen, Department of Economics and Business has participated in a research project, in which genetic researchers from 34 countries have joined forces to take a closer look at the biological causes of schizophrenia. In an article in Nature, researchers from Aarhus are among those pinpointing 80 new genes linked to the…
2014.07.16 | Awards
Professor Asger Lunde from the Department of Economics and Business at Aarhus University’s School of Business and Social Sciences is the only person from a Danish university to be included in the Economics and Business list of the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds in 2014.
2014.06.27 | Knowledge exchange
On a press conference held on 27 June, the Danish Ministry of Employment announced that economics professor Nina Smith has been appointed chairman of the government’s unemployment benefit commission.
2014.06.24 | Awards
At BSS’ annual Faculty Celebration, which took place in the Main Hall at AU on Friday, Martin Møller Andreasen was presented with the 2014 BSS Research Award. He is one of two researchers to win the award this year. The award comes with a cash prize of DKK 50,000, which is earmarked for his further research.
2014.06.23 | Awards
Two of this year’s most talented students within the field of export and international trade have received the Danish Export Association’s Graduation Awards for best Bachelor’s project and best Master’s thesis.
2014.06.19 | Eliteforskning
The Social Sciences (FSE) department under the Danish Council for Independent Research has granted a total of DKK 6.4 million to two new research projects led by Associate Professor Thomas Quistgaard Pedersen and Associate Professor Martin Møller Andreasen.
2014.05.21 | Knowledge exchange
The government’s future pension commission will be chaired by professor Torben M. Andersen from the Department of Economics and Business.