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Aalto Startup Center celebrates its 25th anniversary as a pioneer in Finnish startup culture
Aalto Startup Center has played an important role in the construction of the Finnish startup ecosystem.
TAPPI awards Professor emeritus Patrick Gane “Outstanding Educator”
TAPPI awards Professor emeritus Patrick Gane “Outstanding Educator”
How to accelerate innovations, ensure food sequrity and make cities green? Sustainability Science Days seeks answers to the huge sustainability challenges of our time
Sustainability Science Days 2022 focuses on global system-level solutions for food systems, cities, governance and more. Sustainability Science Days is Finland's largest two-day science conference on sustainable development, organized by Aalto University and the University of Helsinki.
Alexander Wirtz receives a master’s thesis award
The winning thesis is in the field of finance, and it looked at a wide range of factors that have been hypothesized to affect an individual investor’s equity allocation decisions
Aalto University becomes a founding partner in Ioncell Oy
The new company will commercialise and develop ecological textile fibre technologies.
Donor Pentti Ahnger: A strong foundation for working life from The School of Business
I became interested in student mentoring, while I was still at work, and got to know many nice and smart kylteri (business student).
Planmeca and FCAI collaboration: Machine learning for oral and maxillofacial imaging
The second video in FCAI's new video series presents collaboration between FCAI, health equipment manufacturer Planmeca and Tampere University Hospital.
‘Painting Energies’ Podcast Explores Light and Energy at the Intersection of Art and Science
A new podcast hosted by physicist Janne Halme and artist Bartaku explores the connections between light and color, plant and microbe, art and science. The Painting Energies podcast builds upon their visionary artscience workings that have been evolving at Aalto University since 2017. Painting Energies is not to be missed for any scientist, artist or student looking to find new ways of combining art and science.
Art for All festival returns in August
The cross-artistic festival will take place 26.-28.8.2022 in the Helsinki Botanical Garden. The event features pieces from performing arts to installations and audiovisual works.
The aurora borealis can be heard even when they can’t be seen
Recordings reveal sounds linked with geomagnetic activity that’s too weak to cause northern lights at the same spot
The 16th Ceremonial Conferment of Degrees at the School of Business was celebrated
See a few pictures from The Act of Conferment and the Procession
New Academy Research Fellows and postdoctoral researchers
Funding granted by the Academy of Finland brings six new Academy Research Fellows, and 14 postdoctoral researchers ʵ University – congratulations to all!
Melina Nummi enhances student mobility between Unite! universities
Melina Nummi is the planning officer for international mobility at Aalto University. Melina's interest in enabling internationalisation for everyone, comes from her own background as she has studied and worked outside Finland for quite many years.
Foundation for Economic Education donates 850 000 euros ʵ University’s business studies
'The importance of donations is emphasized as we increase the intake of students in our school.'
Questions and answers about space giants
Why is it important to study black holes? Read more about the Event Horizon Telescope project in the questions and answers column.
Researchers’ bio
Researchers from Aalto University, University of Turku, and Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO participated the project taking a photo of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy.
Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy
Researchers from Aalto University, the University of Turku and the Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO were part of the international research group in taking a revolutionary picture.
Changes in traffic arrangements at the intersection of Konemiehentie and Maarintie
Changes in traffic arrangements will start on Monday, May 16 at Konemiehentie in front of the Computer Science building.
Artificial intelligence can offset human frailties, leading to better decisions
‘Centaurs’ are human-AI partnerships that collaborate for better decision-making
Aalto University students’ hedgehog robot wins first place in robot competition
Valentin Rainio and Sakari Harjunpää, students at the Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, built the robot as part of the popular Electric Workshop course.
