The HM Queen Margrethe II travel grant to students at Aarhus University

Classical archaelogy student Sine Grove Saxkjær
Department of culture and society
Aarhus University

Sine Grove Saxkjær is a second-semester Master’s degree student. Her Master’s thesis explores central theoretical questions regarding the meeting of cultures and their coexistence, and the relation between material relics and identity in archaeological research. Her project investigates Southern Italy, where the indigenous population encountered Greek immigrants between the 5th and 8th centuries BCE. Saxkjær’s approach to her topic is both new and promising. Instead of focussing on the Greeks’ perspective, she analyses local ceramics from the period. Saxkjær has considerable expertise in this area from several years of fieldwork in Southern Italy. She has also presented her work at international conferences and published articles in international journals.
She is currently planning a longer period of study with her co-supervisor Professor Vladimir Stissi of the University of Amsterdam, and will be returning to Southern Italy several times to study ceramics.

Engineerint student Rasmus Pihl
Department of Engineering
Aarhus University

Rasmus Pihl is a third-semester Master’s degree student who is specialising in biotechnology.
He received extraordinarily high marks as a Bachelor’s degree student and has continued to do so in his Master’s programme. In addition to his academic work, Pihl has made a major contribution to the study environment at Science and Technology through his work as a tutor and his student job in the study and career guidance service.
Pihl wanted to study abroad in the course of his degree programme, so he contacted his department to arrange a period of study abroad that would also be of more general interest to Aarhus University.
With the assistance of the academic staff at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, he arranged a research stay at Princeton University under Professor Tom Muir, who will act as Pihl’s academic supervisor during his stay.

Sport Science Student Lisbeth Anna Karen Kronsted Lund
Department of Public Health
Aarhus University

Lisbeth Anna Karen Kronsted Lund completed her Bachelor’s degree in sport science in the summer of 2013. Lisbeth Anna Karen Kronsted Lund is not only a strong student, she is also involved in student politics and sits on the board of studies for sport science. She is also actively involved in the development of the university’s internationalisation initiatives. In the course of her undergraduate studies, she has been on exchange in Australia and has produced a video to inspire other students who are considering studying abroad. The video is available on the student guidance homepage.
She will use her travel grant to expand her international contacts and horizon and find inspiration for her involvement in internationalisation at Aarhus University.

Political Science student Asger Narud 
Department of Political Science and Government
Aarhus University

Asger Narud is a third-semester Master’s degree student. He has received exceptionally high marks throughout his studies. He also has a reputation as an extremely competent and popular instructor in method as well as a committed student orientation week (rus) secretary.
His work with student orientation led him to establish a mentor project at the Department of Political Science and Government in cooperation with another student. On the background of the project’s thoroughness and positive results, the department has decided to extend the mentor scheme to all first-year students in an effort to aid their integration in their degree programmes and academic life and to reduce drop-out rates.
Asger Narud is planning to do part of his Master’s degree at the University of Washington, a university that the Department of Political Science and Government has worked with for several years. Asger Narud will take courses at both Master’s and doctoral level.