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Simple yet effective ways to act on climate change – tips for everyday life

Author and Creative Sustainability student Rinna Saramäki and AaltoSDG mobile application encourage everyone to take action to mitigate climate change.
Student Service Design Challenge 2020 -kilpailussa toiseksi sijoittunut Aallon opiskelijaryhmä hymyilee kuvassa
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Winning service concept to bring better healthcare for Roma people

Team No Pressure from Aalto University won 2nd place at the international Student Service Design Challenge 2020.

Aalto continued with excellent performance in ShanghaiRankings

Ten subjects rank in the top one hundred worldwide.
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ShanghaiRankings by subject 2020, Aalto is 24th in the world in Business Administration

Stopping the unstoppable with atomic bricks

Aalto University theorist part of a team that developed a method for trapping elusive electrons
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Scanning tunneling microscope tip confining electrons in graphene

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.
Press releases, Research & Art
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Aivokuori seuraa äänen piirteitä hyvin täsmällisesti ymmärtääkseen puhetta. Kuva: Aalto-yliopisto

The coronavirus pandemic encouraged hundreds of experienced professionals to study change leadership

The Facilitating Change online course saw as many as 500 registrations, with the majority of participants already within working life
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Tõnn Talpsepp's paper published in the Journal of Banking and Finance

Dr. Tõnn Talpsepp's joint paper with Kristjan Liivamägi and Tarvo Vaarmets has been published in the Journal of Banking and Finance.
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Artificial intelligence produces data synthetically to help treat diseases like COVID-19

The ability to produce data synthetically makes studying of the COVID-19 disease significantly easier.
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Violetti- ja beigesävyinen kuvituskuva, jossa näkyy ihmisiä ja numeroita

McKinsey Finance Teacher of the Year 2020

Finance Assistant Professor Peter Nyberg has been nominated as the McKinsey Finance Teacher of the Year.
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Assistant Professor Peter Nyberg, McKinsey Teacher of the Year 2020.

Otaranta closed to motor vehicle traffic as of week 27

The construction of the light rail has reached the southern part of Otaniemi.
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Raide-Jokeri havainnekuva Ainonaukio, Otaniemi Kuva: Raide-Jokeri

Aalto University ranks high in two listings for young universities

Aalto University was ranked 9th in the world by QS and 20th by the Times Higher Education in their rankings of universities under 50 years of age
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Infografiikka jossa luku 9.

Like a massive golf ball - Metsähovi Radio Observatory got a new radome

The Metsähovi Radio Observatory's landmark protects the telescope and enables year-round study of the Sun and black holes.
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Changing the Aalto University's Metsähovi radio observatory radome. Photo: Kalle Kataila

Thought-provoking summer listening - dive into the world of podcasts

Our podcasts provide diverse content on learning, science, business, work life and philosophy, among other things. Don on your earphones and get listening!
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Aalto-yliopiston valkoinen 3D-logo, iso A huutomerkillä, kampuksen nurmikolla / kuvaaja Mikko Raskinen, Aalto-yliopisto

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.
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Nature-imitating coating, picture: Juho Heiska

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Advert showing "Forces of the Quantum Vacuum" seminar series
Lectures and seminars – (recurring)

Physics Research Seminar Series: Prof. Ulf Leonhardt- Forces of the Quantum Vacuum

Prof. Ulf Leonhardt (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) will give an online seminar series on "Forces of the Quantum Vacuum".
Advert showing "Forces of the Quantum Vacuum" seminar series
Lectures and seminars – (recurring)

Physics Research Seminar Series: Prof. Ulf Leonhardt- Forces of the Quantum Vacuum

Prof. Ulf Leonhardt (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) will give an online seminar series on "Forces of the Quantum Vacuum".
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Department of Computer Science: MSc Thesis Presentations

SECCLO students Sonika Ujjwal, Gilang Mentari Hamidy, Kidus Mammo, Ngadhnjim Plaku, Christian Yudhistira and Satenik Hovsepyan will present their MSc theses on Monday 27 July at 10:00 via Zoom.
Advert showing "Forces of the Quantum Vacuum" seminar series
Lectures and seminars – (recurring)

Physics Research Seminar Series: Prof. Ulf Leonhardt- Forces of the Quantum Vacuum

Prof. Ulf Leonhardt (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) will give an online seminar series on "Forces of the Quantum Vacuum".
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