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Economist: A natural resource tax on hydropower would generate revenue and improve the state of the environment
A natural resource tax would be a way to distribute the costs of environmental protection so that they would not fall solely on electricity consumers
Summer School teacher interview: Learn how to approach design challenges in the Nordic Product Design course by Aalto University Summer School
Aalto University Summer School offers a brand-new undergraduate-level summer course on Nordic Product Design for 2024.
KY nominated Professor Katri Kauppi as Teacher of the Year 2024
Students describe Kauppi’s teaching style as energetic and inspiring
The Annual Review took stock of the past year
The School of Arts, Design and Architecture's Annual Review on 13 March reflected on the results and highlights of the previous year. Also, the year's contributors and the Alumn of the Year were awarded.
Brighter together: designing sustainable technologies to create electronic devices
An article about an Aalto research project focusing on light-emitting electrochemical cells has been published in Chemical Science.
When a team is less than the sum of its parts: tensions between individual and team wellbeing
New research highlights the conflict between the needs of a team and the needs of the individuals in the team – and what leaders can do to strike the right balance to keep things ticking smoothly.
Jinjing Zhu: Being able to tell about my skills and give examples of my past experience helped me get this position
Jinjing Zhu, a Master's student in Business Analytics, is doing an internship with OnePlus Finland.
Join the Unite! Train from Barcelona to Grenoble - apply by April 7
Join the sustainable mobility and interculturality journey with students from 9 Unite! universities.
All parties benefit from collaborative projects in education
Students had the opportunity to tackle real-life challenges in the CAPSTONE course on supply chain management
Maarit Korpi-Lagg: I have so few female colleagues that sometimes it’s difficult to maintain self-esteem
'Both in physics and computer science there are very few female researchers and professors. Last year we had a celebration because the first female student passed my course. It was a big thing for me.'
Call texts for Research Council of Finland’s spring 2024 call out now
The Research Council of Finland has open funding calls in spring for Antarctic research, international collaboration in high-performance computing, and the roadmap call for research infrastructures. The deadline for applications is May 8, 2024, except for the roadmap call for research infrastructures (FIRI2024), which has a deadline on May 15, 2024.
Metsähovi Radio Observatory turns 50 and gets new telescopes
Students helped design and build the new telescopes, which expands the opportunities for multidisciplinary space research and education
Additional travel services for Tenure Track Professors
Travel Services offers expanded travel services to all Aalto Tenure Track professors starting March 6, 2024.
Aalto travel instructions updated 4.3.2024
Aalto University launched a remote work trial abroad on March 4, 2024. The Aalto travel instructions have been updated to accommodate situations where remote work is combined with business travel.
Genuine networking is about meeting people as people
For School of Business alum Jude Kokkonen, people and doing things together is a matter close to his heart
Solve the SDGs Hackathon in the School of Business between 22 and 24 March 2024
The construction work of the event will start on Thursday, 21 March
Significant Grant for Greener Semiconductor Technology from Business Finland
Aalto University, in collaboration with the industrial partners Applied Materials in Finland (Picosun), PiBond and Volatec has been awarded a major Business Finland grant.
AI-powered personalized medicine is on the horizon
People have to be in the loop when machine learning is adapted for medical use.
‘If we make informed and thoughtful choices, it can catalyse diversity in our community’
On 27 February 2024, Assistant Professor Jaana Vapaavuori hosted a breakfast event to catalyze all kinds of diversities, in conjunction with the U.N. Day of Women and Girls in Science. Different diversities can be, for example: ideas, identities, representations, backgrounds, experiences, and bodies.
Pitching in ice cold water and childbirth are both leaps into the unknown
The Natal Mind research team won the Polar Bear Pitching competition last weekend in Oulu. Obstetrician Aura Pyykönen tells us what it was like to pitch in the ice-cold water. Annika Järvelin, Riikka Lemmetyinen and Henni Tenhunen are other members of the winning team at Aalto Department of Industrial Engineering and Management.
