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Hollywood costume design goes sustainable
A textile artist sees natural materials as the future for costumes in television and film.
Everyday choices: Nitin Sawhney, how do we cooperate in times of crisis?
Professor of Practice Sawhney examines the role of technology and cooperation in crisis using transdisciplinary human-centered design practices.
Master's student Noah Peysson: ‘I learnt problem solving from the holistic aspect of the Creative Sustainability programme’
The program also helped me develop a more critical perspective on the information and solutions that are given to us.
Simple accuracy boost for core excitation calculations
Relativistic corrections that are important for core excitations in molecules and materials are incorporated in complex quantum mechanical calculations in an efficient manner.
When honey flows faster than water
Physicists surprised to find that in specially coated tubes, the more viscous a liquid is, the faster it flows
Aalto University's 10th anniversary was celebrated on 10 October
After Aalto University President Ilkka Niemelä's greetings, Alumni Studio featured three Aalto alumni discussing sustainable development and the most pressing global challenges of our time. The event was concluded with an entertaining science show where Aalto's top researchers stepped into the limelight to explain why their research is important right now.
BepiColombo, en route to Mercury, flew by Venus – simulation shows clouds of particles escaping from the planet
Researchers at Aalto University have been involved in building the equipment on board the probe, which are used in studying phenomena such as space weather on Venus and Mercury.
Professor Zhipei Sun elected as a Fellow Member of The Optical Society
The honor is granted for professor Sun's pioneering contributions to photonic and optoelectronic applications with low-dimensional materials.
New Aalto University Open Science and Research Policy was published
The guiding principle of Aalto University Open Science and Research policy is ‘as open as possible, as closed as necessary’. This means that research outputs should be open if there is no valid reason to restrict access to them. Aalto University Research Services provides help in research data management and opening publications, data, protocols and code.
Aalto ARTS Books participates in the Helsinki and Frankfurt Book Fairs
Both the Helsinki Book Fair and the world's largest book fair, the Frankfurt Book Fair, will take place online this year due to the covid-19 pandemic.
High-speed photos shine a light on how metals fail
By combining experimental and theoretical work, researchers discover what happens when metals are stretched to their yield point
Circular Design Challenge Competition teams selected
The Circular Design Challenge Competition launched by Aalto University, Geological Survey of Finland GTK, Natural Resources Institute Luke, Finnish Environment Institute SYKE and VTT in May collected altogether 26 cross-organizational ideas. Nine teams received funding to develop their idea into a concept or proposal.
Scientists develop a sound device to allow monkeys living in a Finnish zoo to play sounds and music
The use of sounds is a promising way to improve the life and wellbeing of animals living in captivity
Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation granted Aalto University EUR 10.5 million to establish a bioinnovation centre
The centre will accelerate the transition to a circular economy and bioeconomy, and create opportunities for sustainable economic growth in Finland.
How mobile apps grab our attention
First empirical study on how users pay visual attention to mobile app designs shows larger and brighter elements don’t catch our eyes after all.
7 Experiences Summit giving birth to multidisciplinary experience research as a field
The conference brought together experience researchers from different fields for the first time worldwide.
This time round, Professor Henrikki Tikkanen defended a doctoral dissertation in economic history
Tikkanen's doctoral studies at the University of Jyväskylä focused on organisational and naval history.
Let’s all be Urban Miners!
Do you have an old, redundant cell phone at home? It won’t matter if it is broken, you can still bring it to IT Service Desk to be recycled!
School of Business ranked second in B2B marketing in prestigious international journal’s evaluation
Fruitful co-operation between Finnish universities and excellent university-business collaboration essential
