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Aalto University endowment portfolio returned 3.1% in the first half of 2017

The purpose of the Aalto University endowment is to generate additional funding for top quality research and education.
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Alumni Ambassador Xiang Ye: Learning will continue also after the graduation

Xiang Ye encourages students to create networks and emphasizes the importance of continuous learning.
Cooperation
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School of Business Alumni Ambassador Xiang Ye

Sino Finnish Challenge summer camp focuses on urban development in China

Students came from Asia, and the instructors were from Aalto, MIT and Stanford.
Studies, Cooperation
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The challenge began with an idea competition that received 661 proposals from 3 000 people. The prizes for the first phase of the challenge were awarded in Otaniemi.

Design is shaping the ministries’ future – from office to carrot fields

The students of Aalto University Design for Government course studied the collaboration skills of Civil servant 2.0 and the locality of public food procurement in Forssa.
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Photo: Alisa Javits

New statistical model effectively predicts the toxicity of pharmaceutical molecules

A statistical component model can be used to identify associations between chemicals and toxicological effects.
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The component model describes statistical links between chemicals and the effect of their molecular toxins. Picture: Juuso Parkkinen, Aalto University.

Digital transformation is also changing Japan's retail business

The Global Marketplaces research project seeks to identify forerunners in the retail business in Japan.
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In addition to language and culture differences, it is more difficult for foreigners to enter the Japanese market because actors in the Japanese retail business are very competitive and set the bar high.

Quantum researchers around the globe gather at Aalto

The conference covers quantum effects and connects research directions at the frontiers of mesoscopic quantum coherence.
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Olli V. Lounasmaa Memorial Prize 2016 laureate Prof. Michel Devoret gave a scientific talk at the conference on Saturday 5 August at Hanasaari. Photo: Mika Sillanpää

Alumni Ambassador Minna Rissanen: Aalto University enables countless study combinations, and that is how everyone can find their own thing

Ambitious Minna Rissanen has gained a huge advantage from the interdisciplinary programs at Aalto University, and encourages current students to take on new subjects, also outside their own degree.
Cooperation
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School of Business Alumni Ambassador Minna Rissanen

International students coming to Otaniemi to tackle climate change challenges

Aalto University is hosting an international Journey Summer School focusing on climate change innovations.
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Noises as well as claps associated with the Northern Lights

A mathematical model confirms the hypothesis of the origin of the auroral sounds.
Research & Art
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Chemical route towards electronic devices in graphene

Essential electronic components, such as diodes and tunnel barriers, can be incorporated in single graphene wires (nanoribbons) with atomic precision.
Press releases, Research & Art
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Schematic of the synthesis procedure for the graphene nanoribbon heterostructures

Aalto-1 satellite sends first image

The photograph was taken with the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland developed hyperspectral camera's secondary camera.
Research & Art, Press releases
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Kokoon house stacks up at the Flow Festival

The project by Department of Architecture’s Wood Program was built to offer affordable housing to migrant populations.
Cooperation, Research & Art
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The visitors to the Flow Festival can explore the modular Kokoon house. Photo: Juho Haavisto.

Green Core creates the tropics amid the Flow Festival

This installation, meant for relaxation, is created by students of interior architecture at Aalto.
Research & Art, Cooperation
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Green Core is a light installation that changes along the times of the day, and it has a core that is bursting with green plants. Image: Group 815.

Student animations light up the Flow Festival’s stages

The ‘Animated Maniacs’ series of experimental works make comprehensive use of different techniques from 3D computer animations to hand drawn pieces.
Research & Art, Cooperation
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Work in progress picture from animation “Human and Posthuman / Embodiment and Materiality. Sensorium as the Self and Infusion of the Environment". Image: Ville Niemi.

Aalto #7 in the world among universities under 50 years of age

Aalto is the best young university in Europe according to the latest QS ranking.
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Photo: Aalto University/ Mikko Raskinen

Assembly of the Suomi 100 satellite has begun

Final assembly of the next Finnish satellite began this week in Otaniemi. The Suomi 100 satellite should be ready in August and launched into space in December.
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Advanced Electronic Materials publication

"Microwave Admittance of Gold-Palladium Nanowires with Proximity-Induced Superconductivity" has been published in Advanced Electronic Materials.
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Aalto students paint a 100-meter mural for the Flow Festival

‘Jukeboksi’ painting is inspired by music at this year’s festival and it will consume 93 liters of paint.
Research & Art, Cooperation
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Sketches by Armi Teva and Miia Puustinen. Photo: David Lewis.

Management Communication course now totally on the web

Revised course Management Communication
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