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21st century medical needles for high-tech cancer diagnostics
Modern medicine needs better quality samples than traditional biopsy needles can provide, ultrasonically oscillating needles can improve treatment and reduce discomfort
How do millennials see the future of social welfare and healthcare services?
A student business project carried out for Deloitte produced fresh new ideas and insights.
Join the Blood Group of Aalto University Staff
Helping together is rewarding! In addition to a good feeling, results are achieved quickly - so join the blood group of Aalto University staff and donate blood!
A remote device helps medical staff in the fight against time
How can we improve the monitoring of patient vital signs when hospitals are full of Covid-19 patients? An international group of students, whose award-winning innovation led to establishing a company, has the solution.
Improving performance this spring
In 2021, performance is all about wellbeing, and Aalto considers it a key priority. Find below concrete tips to improve your and your team鈥檚 performance this spring
Difficulty learning nonsense words may indicate a child鈥檚 high risk of dyslexia
Studies show disorder is linked to the left cerebral hemisphere and that confidence can help kids overcome difficulties
The activities of Neurocenter Finland are gaining momentum
The aim of the new national competence network is to increase cooperation between universities, hospitals, and the business worlds and to make Finnish neuroscience know-how visible internationally. Neurocenter Finland is part of the health sector growth strategy and the Personalized Medicine project.
Have you already tried a remote walking meeting? 鈥 Share your thoughts and ideas!
This spring, our goal is to gather at least 100 reasons to have a remote meeting while walking outdoors.
Aalto is a partner in the New European Bauhaus initiative
The EU initiative imagines future ways of living by combining design, culture, social inclusion, science and technology.
Tired of virtual meetings? Try a walking meeting!
Personnel are encouraged to hold walking meetings remotely outdoors 鈥 talk with your colleagues and try them together!
The ideas of the Award for Achievements in Teaching winner in distance learning will be heard at Aalto ENG's Teaching Forum on 8 March 2021
At the School of Engineering's Teaching Forum, Samuel Cross, who has just received the Award for Achievements in Teaching together with Annukka Santasalo-Aarnio, will give a presentation on 鈥淐hallenge-based education in an online environment鈥. In February 2021, Cross and Santasalo-Aarnio were awarded the Dean鈥檚 recognition for developing challenge-based learning and co-teaching in distance education.
Shorter meetings and more breaks than before
To improve well-being at work, meetings are proposed to be held on the same days and hourly meetings condensed to 45 minutes.
If you study computer science, you may end up developing better cancer treatments by applying AI
Heli Julkunen developed a machine learning method that predicts how different drug combinations kill cancer cells. After graduation she helped advance preventive healthcare as a data scientist.
Artificial intelligence for dementia prevention
AI-Mind is a 5-year project funded by Horizon 2020, with the goal of facilitating a paradigm shift in clinical practice of mild cognitive impairment. A team of Aalto University and HUS Helsinki University Hospital researchers are involved in the project
Aalto University improves availability of student well-being services with ministry support
The Ministry of Education and Culture has granted Aalto University a special subsidy for enhancing the guidance of students and supporting their wellbeing better during the coronavirus pandemic.
Common Aalto goals for My Dialogues
Learn about Aalto鈥檚 six priority goals for 2021 to help prepare for your My Dialogues.
Hanna Renvall: Being a professor and working in the emergency room at the same time teaches 鈥榳hat kinds of questions our research should seek to answer鈥
Hanna Renvall has a shared professorship at Aalto University and the Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District (HUS), she serves as Director at the BioMag laboratory and is also the Deputy Director of the Philomela choir
Researchers developing computer game to treat depression
Playing a therapeutic action game can ease symptoms in patients with depression, and improve their cognitive performance
How to prepare for My Dialogues in 2021?
These videos and instructions help you to get ready for an effective My Dialogue discussion about goals, development and wellbeing with your supervisor and team.
Seasonal influenza vaccinations available at certain health clinics of Terveystalo in certain areas
There are influenza vaccinations available at the certain health clinics of Terveystalo in certain areas.
