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Communication and interaction are essential to boost students' academic performance in online courses
Aalto University Summer School taught its entire curriculum online this summer. Staff and faculty now share their take on online learning.

Solid Ground tells the story of ceramics
Nathalie Lautenbacher's book intertwines essays with photos of contemporary ceramics in a charming way.

Practices identified at Terveyskylä for facilitating the adoption of online health care services
It is important to involve professionals in the fields of information technology and health care as well as patients in the development of services

Engaging with materiality and colour through biocolourants
The BioColour project organizes a broad audience event on Monday 17.8, concentrating on different points of view on materiality and colour. Julia Lohmann, designer and Professor of Practice in Aalto University, is one of the project’s researchers and a speaker in the event.

The story of a fabric
Matilda Palmu, who will graduate from the Fashion, Clothing and Textile Design master's programme in autumn 2020, describes her artistic process.

Saara Saarela to direct The Guardian of Water
The movie based on Emmi Itäranta’s award-winning novel Memory of Water has begun filming. The Guardian of Water (Veden vartija in Finnish) is directed by Saara Saarela, professor of film directing at Aalto University.

From her own little world to the other side of the globe
Her studies and her parents used to be her whole world, but now Dr. Avleen Malhi lives on the other side of the world, designs an Airbnb for car drivers, and encourages women to pursue their goals

How vaping companies exploit Instagram for youth-oriented marketing?
Researchers use artificial intelligence to analyse hundreds of thousands of Instagram posts about vaping

A quarter of the world’s lowland population depends critically on mountain water resources
Global water consumption has increased almost fourfold in the past 100 years, and many regions can only meet their water demand thanks to essential contributions from mountain regions

Sleep apnea is a threat for public health - students developed an application that recognizes its signs at home
The app is currently being tested, and its usability and reliability will be improved based on test users' feedback

Deciphering the structure of nanosystems with machine learning
The CEST group joins forces with a team in Austria to solve a long-standing puzzle in nanoscience.

The human brain tracks speech more closely in time than other sounds
The way that speech processing differs from the processing of other sounds has long been a major open question in human neuroscience.

Nature-imitating coating makes batteries more durable and efficient
Aalto University's researchers were the first in the world to make use of carbon dioxide in the production of a battery protective coating.

‘Helsinki School – The Nature of Being’ group shows in Berlin and Fotografisk Copenhagen
This Summer Persons Projects / Helsinki School presents the group exhibition 'The Helsinki School – The Nature of Being' at their gallery space in Berlin and at Fotografisk Copenhagen as a part of CHART Art Fair.

Record number of Academy Projects
Of the 37 Academy Projects awarded ʵ by the Academy of Finland, 31 focus on natural sciences and technology. In total, the funding granted ʵ from the September 2019 call rose to 25.3 million euros.

Patrick Rinke awarded Academy of Finland funding
The LearnSolar project receives funding for machine-learning based discovery of new solar cell materials.

A project led by Professor of Practice Pekka Mattila received funding from the Academy of Finland
The aim of the study is to explain the development of Finnish business management training and to understand the factors affecting it.

Researchers preparing a new type of brain-stimulation therapy for clinical use
Patients with severe depression, chronic pain, or stroke could benefit from multi-locus TMS. The new project will try to make it cost effective and simple

Prof. Quan Zhou received new funding from the Academy of Finland
We just received a new grant from the Academy of Finland, titled: “Robotic Magnetic Needle Characterization of Single Nanoparticle Uptake in Cells”, in cooperation with Prof. Hélder Santos of the University of Helsinki.

Joint project seeks low-emission industrial solutions
Converting electricity into another form of energy and then back into electricity can be applied to the production of synthetic fuels, chemicals and the edible proteins known as 'electric' foods.
