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Paula Hohti Erichsen awarded the Roland H. Bainton Prize for Art History
Professor Hohti Erichsen is specialized in the study of early modern dress, textiles, fashion and decorative arts.
Chemical engineering education is valued in working life, say graduates of 2015
According to the latest five-year survey, alumni of the School of Chemical Engineering are satisfied with their careers. The next career monitoring survey will run from 4 October to 13 December 2021.
School of Business donor stories: Krista Kuuttiniemi
‘University life was a valuable experience for me. Donating felt like the appropriate way to show my appreciation towards Aalto University School of Business.’, says Krista Kuuttiniemi, our Economics alumna.
Summer interns' projects in MMD group
Internships 2021 in Multifunctional Materials Design research group
Maintenance break in ACRIS on 1 November, and new features
Maintenance break between 14-20. New features will be introduced.
Oops: A circular economy workshop abuzzed activity and ejected personal biases
Head of Radical Creativity Riikka Mäkikoskela witnessed the power of creativity while leading a workshop.
Insulation from old jeans, walls from waste concrete – less guilt and more solutions are needed for construction
The biggest environmental act would be not building at all. But a circular economy can also mitigate the environmental impact of construction.
Material can be trained like a Pavlov dog – Professor Olli Ikkala and his team develop new materials
The sharpest tip of materials science is coming up with answers to questions such as can materials ‘learn’ new properties or how to keep a cancerous tumour alive outside the body.
Four years and lots of tears – three experts tell how they succeeded in making the change
Many entrepreneurs and researchers set their goals based on a realisation that something needs to be done differently. The change they envision might be a new product or material, or it can be a new way to do things. Implementing change isn’t always easy, however, and it demands a stomach for uncertainty, say Professor Michael Hummel and entrepreneurs Annu Nieminen and Richard Nordström.
Nuclear Finance: Bank Management in Disruption
A new book by Aalto Emeritus Professor Risto Tainio, Taisto Kangas & Anders Kjellman on bank management.
A surprising winner of the Campus Sustainability Champion 2021 award
The campus sustainability champion was chosen now for the fifth time.
School of Business student story: Johan Salim
Johan Salim, a second-year student of the Bachelor's Program in International Business, appreciates the important skills he has learned during his studies: “You will be equipped with all the tools you need to head out and build the career of your dreams.”
Covid-19 contact-tracing apps are less trusted by those from socially disadvantaged backgrounds
People who are mistrusting, socially disadvantaged, or have less digital access, are generally more negative towards the idea of using digital contact tracing apps to control COVID-19.
Irene Purasachit saw the floral industry’s waste problem firsthand – now she makes material for handbags from discarded blooms
Nearly half of cut flowers end up in the trash, never making their way to dinner tables or first dates
Machine learning helps to predict blackouts caused by storms
Train delays related to adverse weather can also be predicted with good quality training data, a new thesis shows.
A greenhouse out of wood: new design makes vertical farming greener
Efficient insulation halves energy consumption and could boost the income of vertical farms
Alum Iines Veistola: I gained a strong and diverse foundation for working life from the School of Business
‘My current job offers me exactly the things that I enjoyed most in school too: I get to learn something new every day, study all kinds of phenomena and constantly challenge myself.’, says our alumna Iines Veistola.
‘A deeper understanding of landscape can be the key to designing better cities’
I claim series presents landscape architect Maria Jaakkola.
Recent policy recommendation: How to accelerate platform economy in the education sector
Platforms can be used to create increasingly individualized learning solutions and more efficiently distributed learning materials while reducing production and publishing costs.
‘I wanted to reorient my career towards sustainability’
Beatriz Ramírez shared her story of starting a new career in Finland as part of the Finland Works open online course.
