Something new and something old: Critical thinking, empathy and communication skills
Hertta Vuorenmaa and Eero Vaara's insights on central work-life skills.

Mikko Nisula’s research into lithium-ion batteries resulted in a Dissertation of the Year award and a researcher’s position at Ghent University
Prizes were awarded to the best master’s theses and doctoral dissertations at the graduation ceremony of the School of Chemical Engineering

Educational changes are made in the School of Business to meet future needs
A student project set a goal of identifying the most important future trends, the needs future business school graduates will have for skills and knowledge, and the best practices for the programme reform.

Cooperation between students and companies produces open-minded ideas
Study projects are being arranged with the aim of finding fresh solutions to challenges facing companies, and to amass skills that stand out in working life.

‘Good enough’ is often ‘just fine’
Group mentoring event brings School of Business alumni and students together to talk about matters relating to work.

Sustainable mindset as a competence of future Aalto graduate?
Annukka Jyrämä's insights on sustainable mindset.

Aalto University accepts 1 062 new students for master's studies
The admission results were published 27 March. Congratulations to those accepted!

The festive graduation ceremony for MSc and DSc in Econ. and Bus.Admin. was held for the first time on the Otaniemi Campus
19 master's students and one doctoral student graduated.

”Space sciences gave perspective and food for thought”
Ellen Heikkilä opiskelee arkkitehtuuria Taiteiden ja suunnittelun korkeakoulussa. Ellen teki monialaisen Astronomical View of the World -kurssin.

School of Business building staircase invited art competition
New artwork will be located in the newest building on campus.

Chemical technology education fosters sustainable development and opens doors to employment
School of Chemical Engineering provides students with capacities to work for the climate, the environment and sustainable development.

CS Dissertation: Jarno Lintusaari reveals recent developments in approximate computational inference
In his doctoral thesis Jarno Lintusaari modeled the complex spread of tuberculosis with Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) methods and he was one of the main developers of openly available software tool ELFI

Aalto University aims to become a “European University” together with six partners
These seven European technical universities have applied to the EU Commission to be awarded the “European University” title. The aim is to create a transeuropean campus.

Photoshoot day of materials samples by the Materials Platform
The Materials Platform organizes photoshoot sessions for materials samples on a regular basis. All Aalto University researchers who are involved in materials research are invited to participate.

New opening hours serve the evening teaching and other activities better
Undergraduate Centre, Väre and Ekonominaukio, also Harald Herlin Learning Centre are now open later than earlier.

Student films had success at Tampere Film Festival
Films by Tinja Ruusuvuori, Reetta Huhtanen, Tiia Kouvo and Lauri-Matti Parppei were awarded.

“I got an idea of the masters programme, in which I could apply to"
Katariina Korolainen studies second year Information technology at the School of Science. Her studies are quite multidisciplinar but she chose to have UWAS-studies from the School of Arts, Design and Architecture already at the earlty period of her studies.

“I got competitive edge from a minor of another field of study”
Otto Saikkonen studies Applied Physics and Mathematics at the School of Science. He chose to have UWS Studies from the School of Business, because he taught the Funding minor would suite for his Systems Sciences major.

The startup space to explore
How Aalto University’s campus became the hottest startup hub in the Helsinki region.

Aalto Space mobile application develops and extends its range of buildings
During the autumn of 2018, the use of the application was facilitated by adding several new functionalities and identification was enabled for different user groups.
