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IEEE GRSS 2015 Education Award to Martti Hallikainen

The GRSS Education Award is one of the Society’s so called Major Awards.
Awards and Recognition
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Endowment portfolio returns 5.5% in the first half of 2015

The purpose of the Aalto University endowment is to generate additional funding for world-class research and education.
Press releases
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Ice researcher will live one year in a Mars-simulation

Christiane Heinicke and five other researchers are to spend one year in a research station that mimics the conditions on the planet Mars.
Cooperation, Research & Art
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From the Dean: Shaping up the university

All universities and polytechnics in Finland are dependent on public funding and government support.
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From the Dean: Speaking for science

An alarming opinion gap is opening between the scientific community and the general public.
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From the Dean: Match-making: society needs doctors

During the past twenty years, doctoral training in Finnish universities has increased threefold.
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From the Dean: Talk to your students

For some years now, newly gratuated bachelors have received a questionnaire from the Ministry and Education and Culture (MEC).
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From the Dean: From ideas to innovations

The high quality of basic research carried out in Aalto School of Science has again been recognized by external funders during this semester.
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Researchers experimentally demonstrated that patterning of magnetic materials into arrays of nanoscale dots can lead to a very strong and highly controllable modification of the polarization of light when the beam reflects from the array. The picture is taken from the news "Putting a new spin on plasmonics".

"Aalto Science Institute helped me develop new skills"

The internship at Aalto Science Institute was once again popular with a record breaking number of applicants from around the world.
Studies, Research & Art
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Conference on BIM education in France

Professor Koskela attended the EDUBIM2015 (http://edubim2015.sciencesconf.org/) conference in Caen, France, in June 2015. He delivered a presentation
Research & Art
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Aalto BIMforLean presence at Indian Lean Construction Conference

Senior Researcher Dr. Bhargav Dave from Aalto attended the Indian Lean Construction Conference in February 2015.
Research & Art
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When Lean Construction and Agile Software Engineering Meet

The Aalto BIMforLean project team and doctoral student Ergo Pikas from both the Aalto Univeristy and Tallinn University of Technology organized a work
Research & Art
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Good reputation attracts researchers ɫɫÀ² Science Institute

Aalto Science Institute helps the departments of Aalto School of Science find international interns for the summer.
Research & Art
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Constructions in Otaniemi cause disturbances for NMC

Construction of the corner at the crossing of Otakaari and Otaniementie starts in September.
Research & Art
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Six metre zither installation to rise in Nevada desert

Aalto is to be the first university to build its own work of art at the Burning Man event, which is known for its creative insanity.
Studies, Cooperation
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The prototype is built at Design Factory and will stay in Otaniemi after the event. Photo: Mikko Raskinen.

Aalto BIMforLean team attends IGLC23

The BIMforLean team at Aalto - Prof. Lauri Koskela and Dr. Bhargav Dave attended the 23rd conference for International Group for Lean Construction.
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The journey of the comet "Chury" tracked by the European Rosetta probe will come to a climax on 13th August

The comet's tail will be at its longest and erosion at its strongest when the probe arrives tomorrow to its closest distance to the Sun.
Research & Art
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Good urban planning supports children's mobility

With good urban planning, it is possible to encourage children's active transportation and independent mobility such as walking and cycling.
Research & Art
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Around 60 per cent of boys aged 15-16 years and half of girls of the same age do physical exercise at the level recommended by the world Health Organisation WHO, i.e. a minimum of half an hour every day. According to another study, half of children over 12 do more than this recommended level.

Neurotechnology can benefit millions

Brain stimulation technology with its roots in Otaniemi is used as an aid in neurosurgery all over the world.
Research & Art
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Risto Ilmoniemi is one of the original developers of NBS technique. Equipment that utilises navigated brain stimulation is used in the BioMag Laboratory in the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa.

Aalto researchers aim to enrich the online news consumption after quantifying the controversies

The research focused on Twitter, but the methodology is applicable to other social media platforms as well.
Research & Art
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The left side of the figure is controversial (e.g. #beefban), while the right side is non-controversial (e.g. #germanwings).