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Seven new Honorary Doctorates in Technology to be conferred at Aalto University

The Aalto University schools of technology will confer honorary doctorates on seven eminent persons in the fields of science, technology and architecture.
Awards and Recognition, Research & Art
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Aalto ranked #5 in Europe in empirical operations and supply chain management research

SCM Journal List ranks universities according to research output in top-tier journals in the field.
Research & Art
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Graduating students to receive a modern graduation pin as a mark of their achievement

Artist Inni Pärnänen’s multipurpose pin concept won the design compe-tition for the graduation pin to be presented ºÚÁÏÍø graduates.
Studies, Research & Art
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From spring 2018, bachelors students, masters students and architects graduating from Aalto University will receive a graduation pin as a timeless and stylish memento. Photo: Anni Kääriä

“What if… “ event offers the wittiest activities of the spring for the whole family

Take your whole family with you and join us on 19 May at Aalto University’s Otaniemi campus.
Research & Art
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Children in a laboratory

Microlitter – a challenge for wastewater treatment plants

Textile fibres have been found in Baltic Sea mussels
Research & Art
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The term microlitter normally refers to litter items less than 5 mm in diameter. Photo: Julia Talvitie.

Academician Risto Nieminen elected as foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences

The election is a prestigious recognition of Nieminen’s scientific achievements.
Research & Art, Press releases
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Image: Adolfo Vera.

The latest installation talks available on video

Petri Ala-Laurila and Guy Julier tell why the retina offers a pathway to the secrets of the brain and why design should be done with publics.
Research & Art
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Sound waves can be perfectly redirected at will by engineered thin layer

A new field of research at Aalto publishes its first results in Nature Communications.
Research & Art
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New research project on digital twins

The project partners include Aalto University, Konecranes, Siemens Osakeyhtiö, Ideal PLM, RD Velho and Remion.
Research & Art
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Digital twin of a crane

EU:lta kiistanalainen ehdotus digitaalisten tulojen verottamisesta jäsenvaltioissa

Tekniikka ja Talous -lehti on julkaissut Totti Könnölän, Ilkka Lakaniemen ja Ahti Salon artikkelin digitaalisten tulojen verottamisesta. Kirjoittajat tutkivat Aalto-yliopistossa alustatalouden haasteita Suomen Akatemian Platform Value Now -projektissa.
Cooperation, Research & Art
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AI-created family trees confirm class divisions in Finland in the 18th and 19th century

The genealogy algorithm AncestryAI efficiently combines huge amounts of birth data.
Research & Art, Press releases
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A small section of a family tree covering 13 generations that was derived by the algorithm. The colours show the socio-economic status of the individual. Image: Eric Malmi.

Sanna Lehto and Antonina Sedakova win at Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography

Sedakova takes Exception de Mixmind prize for collaboration in China while Lehto wins Public Prize in photography.
Awards and Recognition, Research & Art
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Photographer Sanna Lehto.

Ultrafast laser pulse created by golden nanoparticles

The creation of a fast, tunable and stable nanoparticle-array laser is a stepping stone to affordable and efficient sensing and switching.
Press releases, Research & Art
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Doctoral dissertation: Finland falling behind in competition for foreign regional headquarters

Regional headquarters have moved to Sweden or closer to mandated markets such as Russia, the Baltics or Poland, according to the doctoral dissertation by Iiris Saittakari.
Research & Art
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Helsinki to host Europe’s leading transport event in 2020

Transport Research Arena brings together science, industry and politics.
Research & Art, Cooperation
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What if retirement homes were replaced with grandma’s cottage? New article and video series begins

New article and video series looks into the future – and shows how people at Aalto are building it.
Research & Art
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Highlights from DigiSummit in Berlin

Key companies, government representatives and researchers from Finland and Germany gathered in Berlin on 19-20 April 2018 for a German-Finnish DigiSummit.
Cooperation, Research & Art
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UWAS Experiments, spring 2018 (Dipoli, Otaniemi)

The exhibition presents works from three University-Wide Art Studies (UWAS) courses together with research material produced by the members of the UWAS working group.
Campus, Research & Art
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A glass sculpture of a schematic fish, transparent except for the black tail, holding dry moss inside the belly.

What if retirement homes were replaced with grandma’s cottages? And what if touchscreens could be bent into any shape?

New article and video series looks into the future – and shows how people at Aalto are building it.
Cooperation, Research & Art, Studies
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2.7 billion tweets confirm: echo chambers in Twitter are very real

Bipartisan users, who try to bridge the echo chambers, pay a price for their work: they become less central in their network, lose connections to their communities and receive less endorsements from others.
Press releases, Research & Art
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The scatterplots display how the polarization on the topic of Obamacare content is distributed among Twitter users. Blue dots represent Democrats, and red Republicans. Image: Kiran Garimella and Michael Mathioudakis.