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Immortal awarded as meritorious art book
Maija Tammi and Ville Tietäväinen's book combines scientific research, art and storytelling.
Online training helps quantum researchers get new tech from the laboratory into commercial products
The idea for commercialization starts from the researcher's own skills and knowledge, but interest in entrepreneurship is much greater if the path from an idea to a product is clearly visible.
Arja Karhumaa as head of juries at Grafia’s Vuoden Huiput 2020 creative design competition
As head of juries, Aalto University Assistant Professor Arja Karhumaa will lead and supervise the work of a 61-member jury, comprising of design professionals.
Kaie Kubjas: It is important to encourage girls and young women to study mathematics
Mathematician Kaie Kubjas has done research around the world and has noticed that some places have few female professors, lecturers, or students. Now amid the coronavirus pandemic she is appealing on behalf of women, young researchers, and those with families.
The legendary director Francis Ford Coppola visits Finland at the invitation of ELO and KAVI
During his visit to Finland Francis Ford Coppola will be working together with ELO film school students.
Tenured Professors' Installation Talks with a new concept
In short videos, Professors talk about their field and research.
Nitin Sawhney receives an Academy of Finland grant for analyzing and reconstructing crisis narratives
Professor Sawhney hopes that his collaborative research will offer insights into how crisis narratives emerge in society during the global pandemic
Museum of Impossible Forms wins State Art Prize 2020
ViCCA congratulates its students and alumni who have been active (and often founding) members of the Museum of Impossible Forms (est. 2017) – an anti-racist and queer-feminist cultural center in the suburb of Kontula – for the 2020 State Art Prize that they received from the Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
Going beyond cotton
Aalto University part of a consortium that harnesses collaboration and cutting-edge technology to create circular fashion.
Alumnus Asad Awan awarded for the best doctoral thesis in the field of technology
Awan’s doctoral research deals with the control methods for more efficient electric motors, which could replace traditional induction motors in industrial applications and help reduce the carbon footprint of motor driven systems
Fibre made from recycled cloth towels and hemp stronger than cotton
The tensile strength of fibres created with the Ioncell method is up to 2.5 times more than that of cotton, while an Ioncell knitted fabric made from recycled hemp withstands abrasion for twice as long as normal hemp fabric.
Azimatu Seidu has won a grant from the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
Azimatu successfully applies Density Functional Theory (DFT) to screen vast combinations of different materials which find potential application in perovskite-based photovoltaic devices.
Digitalising and 3D printing spare parts enables manufacturing anywhere and anytime
The digitalisation of spare parts is a step towards more sustainable business and reducing the carbon footprint of industry.
Finland will benefit from energy transition by participating actively in technology and market development
In the Smart Energy Transition project, energy transition gradually changed from being a gradually increasing signal of change into a part of everyday public debate. A discussion on the results of the project, which is open to the public, will be held on 1 December.
A six-meter wide seaweed installation takes over Finnish shopping centre
Julia Lohmann's globally acknowledged seaweed pavilion is on display around the clock at A Bloc in Otaniemi, Finland.
A Choreography of Violence
Photographer Harri Pälviranta collected pictures of violence for two decades and didn't know what to do with them. Get to know how he chose to dissect violence and combine old pictures with new ones.
Scientists use bacteria as micro-3D printers
Technique creates highly customised structures that could be used in regenerative medicine
Moving to Finland to make solar panels from trees
Maryam Esmaeilzadeh tells us about her AScI Internship and how it’s led to a PhD place in Finland
China’s new five-year plan to focus on technological development and carbon neutrality – as well as serving the country’s rapidly growing middle class
The plan has global significance because China usually achieves the goals it sets out
Parallel paths: Designer and materials scientist conjure up glimmering colours out of wood
Designer Noora Yau and materials scientist Konrad Klockars have used wood to conjure up a colour, which is transparent yet glows like a copepod in shallow water. The pair’s good chemistry and open attitude towards asking silly questions is a great help in their work.
