Over the next four years, a major new EU project will examine how noise from shipping affects the marine environment and identify solutions to make ships quieter. Project SATURN has participants from ten countries, and researchers from AU will play a key role.

Geneticist Rasmus O. Bak has been awarded a Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship of DKK 5 million for his project 'Elucidating genetic programs in hematopoietic stem cells’. Using CRISPR/Cas technology, he seeks new knowledge about the human genome that can lead to the development of new medicines for patients with serious blood disorders.

AIAS Fellow Lisa Wu has received grant funding from The Danish Cancer Society (Kræftens Bekæmpelse) to develop a new type of treatment for childhood cancer survivors to improve their cognitive impairment by bringing parents and children together.

How people change time and modify their temporal experience is investigated from an international scope in a new book co-edited by former AIAS Fellow Michael G. Flaherty from Eckerd College and the University of South Florida, together with anthropologists Lotte Meinert and Anne Line Dalsgård from Aarhus University.

AIAS Fellow Iza Romanowska has together with Arthur Hjorth from the Department of Management at Aarhus University formed an agent-based modelling and Complexity Science interest group, the Aarhus Complexity Massive. All interested are invited to join the interdisciplinary group of scholars.

AIAS Fellow Kei Hiruta and Dr Allyn Fives from National University of Ireland

Galway have co-edited the Res Publica Special Issue on ‘Moral Conflict and Political Obligation in (Highly) Non-ideal Conditions’.

A joint book project born at AIAS by former Fellows Kirill Postoutenko and Darin Stephanov has now been published: 'Ruler Personality Cults from Empires to Nation-states and Beyond: Symbolic Patterns and Interactional Dynamics'.

An interdisciplinary panel at AIAS discussed the current challenges for Europe in the context of an art exhibition shown at AIAS. The exhibition “Drawing (for) Europe” brings together very different images of Europe by children book illustrators who have been asked to contribute by the Frankfurt-based editor Markus Weber.

Today is commencement day at AIAS. 14 new research fellows will begin their AIAS fellowship and collaboration with Aarhus University faculty members. The researchers are at AIAS on fellowships that will last from half a year up to three years.

The new book ‘Apollinaris of Laodicea: Metaphrasis Psalmorum’ by AIAS Former Fellow Andrew Faulkner is the first large-scale study of the 4th-century poem ‘Metaphrasis Psalmorum’.