Dipoli Newsletter, April 2018
Dipoli newsletter compiles key matters related to Dipoli work spaces and practices.
Info for customers: Learning Hub Arabia closes Fri 25.5.2018
Please observe that some services will be affected a week before the closure.
President Ilkka Niemelä’s Delegation at Singaporean Universities: Life-long learning and interdisciplinarity in limelight
Aalto University has active cooperation with four leading Singaporean universities: National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore Management University (SMU) and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).
Launch of the new travel claim system M2 Blue will be rescheduled
Earlier this month we announced that Aalto will start using a new travel and expense claim system called M2 Blue in April.
Career skills and joy of helping – Application for the Student-Alumnus Mentoring Programme is open!
Aalto University Mentoring Programme brings together alumni and students with a view to promote students´ career knowledge and self-development of both parties.
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.
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.
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.
Millennium Youth Prize on uusi teknologiakilpailu 14–18-vuotiaille nuorille.
Aalto-yliopisto ja Tekniikan Akatemia TAF järjestävät ensimmäistä kertaa teknologiakilpailun 14–18-vuotiaille nuorille.
The search for food safety
Students from Aalto and the University of Nairobi are examining food’s value chain from maize fields to the milk glass.
Campus envisioned as a green oasis
An open space plan designed by an award-winning landscape architecture firm would introduce more nature and housing to the Otaniemi campus.
The areas of specialisation at the School of Business were introduced at Meet Your Community event
Selecting a specialisation is an important decision for a student.
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.
The new Magazine issue is available online
The Aalto University Magazine issue 22 examines solutions for sustainable development.
Column: Dear climate change
These thoughts were written down by Aalto University students who participated in the Climate change and me – are you anxious? debate group in spring 2018.
Mushroom farming as part of the circular economy
18 million kilos of oyster mushrooms could be grown with the spent coffee grounds Finns produce each year.
Save our lakes by eating roach
Each roach an angler pulls up also removes phosphates, a key factor in eutrophication, from the water system. These phosphates are bound in fish bones.
Coupling magnetic molecules on a superconductor
Shawulienu's results on controlled coupling of magnetic molecules on a superconductor out in Nano Letters.
