Newsletter 55 from the Head of Department

INTERNAL NEWS

Chalk up your running or walking shoes, registration for the DHL relay run is already open

Aarhus University again this year invites all employees to the DHL relay run in the Memorial Park in Aarhus. It takes place on 24 August, and there is both the option of walking or running 5 km.

Klaus Balle Jørgensen from the secretariat has offered to coordinate IOOS teams that can be formed across sections and units. Klaus is happy to arrange a joint IOOS registration, which ensures that we can sit together in the tent on the square.

The registration deadline is 10 May, so there is still time to run, but feel free to send expressions of interest to Klaus (kbjoergensen@dent.au.dk) so we can start to form an overview.

Register holidays and absences as before – we will use mitHR (myHR) later

You have already been informed per mail, but the message bears repeating: On Wednesday 1 March 2023, Aarhus University's new joint digital HR system, mitHR, opened, which collects employee information on e.g. vacation and absence, and in the longer term also salaries and staff development dialogues (MUS).

You have also gained access to mitHR, but we are NOT going to use the system yet. At IOOS, we continue exactly as usual with registration of holidays and absences:

• Complete the holiday form that department secretary Christina Rasmussen sends out in September.
• As a starting point, report sickness absence to the immediate manager and to absence administrator Christina Rasmussen, cr@dent.au.dk, unless otherwise agreed.
• Arrange other absences with the immediate manager and inform the absence administrator.

If you are in doubt about your holiday or absence balance, you can contact Christina Rasmussen, cr@dent.au.dk - and when and if our practice for holiday and absence registration changes, you will of course be informed.

RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND TEACHING

After-work meeting about ChatGPT om 16 March

ChatGPT and other similar chatbots have sparked a great debate and can challenge the way we plan and execute our teaching, as well as how we conduct our exams. These and other related topics will be discussed at the after-work meeting at the Centre for Educational Development (CED) on Thursday 16 March from 16:00 to 17:30. The event takes place in room 228, building 1910, or online via Zoom. Registration is necessary, no later than 14 March. The meeting will be held in English, and CED will provide coffee and cake for participants attending psysically.

Programme and sign up here: https://events.au.dk/chatgpt16march

The ministry has approved the closure of our vocational educations

On 25 November last year, we requested the Ministry of Children and Education to close our two dental vocational educations, and on 10 February this year, the ministry then approved the withdrawal of the two vocational educations. In practice, the final approval means that, as planned, we will close the dental nurses and dental technician educations at Aarhus University from 1 August 2023.

NEWS ABOUT NAMES

Forensic dentistry in the media

Professor MSO and forensic dentist Dorthe Arenholt Bindslev, who is both employed at IOOS and at the Department of Forensic Medicine, tells in an article worth reading in the Danish Dental Journal (Tandlægebladet) about the forensic odontology work and the International Disaster Victim Identification course, which was held here in Aarhus in August. Senior clinical lecturer Jan Tagesen, Section for Maxillofacial Surgery and Oral Pathology, also contributes to the article: "It is the dead themselves who show the way" [In Danish] from January 2023.

Dorthe Arenholt Bindslev also appears as an expert source in several articles about the extensive earthquake in Turkey and Syria earlier this year - for example here in DR Nyheder on 13 February: "Ismail Ulash sits on a stool and stares into the rubble: Inside lies his wife and grandson" [In Danish]

Mini portrait of Louise Hauge Matzen

The Faculty of Health's diversity and equality committee wanted to focus on the career paths of younger researchers. This has led to a small portrait series in the faculty's newsletter, and in week 8 Associate Professor and Section Head Louise Hauge Matzen, Section for Oral Radiology and Endodontics, took part.

Read or re-read the mini portrait: “My mentor has really cleared some paths for me”.

Best wishes,

Siri