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Current news related to WiTLAB
Color of Science: Rethinking Inclusion and Diversity
The organisers of the Color of Science initiative discuss the project, its outcomes, and what the future holds.
Alumna Katri Kaitila: Of the skills I learned in my time at the School of Business, I consider the basics I learned in accounting courses to be the most important
Katri Kaitila works as an Audit Manager at PwC in Private Company Services. What sorts of skills have been useful in Katri's work? And what advice would Katri give herself at the beginning of her studies? Read about Katri’s career path.
Does environmental stress drive migration?
New comprehensive analysis ranks environmental and social factors for explaining migration globally as well as in each country—and it’s more complicated than previous understanding suggests
Doctoral student Hunter Jones wins a significant award
The ACR award goes to a paper with potential for significant scholarly impact.
Celebrating a Decade of Aalto Fablab
Aalto Fablab celebrates 10 years of innovation, participation, digital manufacturing, and creation with an exhibition and a birthday fiesta on the second half of November 2021!
‘Research allows you to pursue your interests, to learn something new, to broaden your mind and to challenge yourself in new ways’
Postdoctoral researcher Ali Khosravi is in the Stanford list of top 2% researchers in the world. His expertise is in using energy engineering and artificial intelligence to model energy systems that are carbon neutral and affordable. What led Ali to pursue career in research? And what are his tips for young researchers who want to make their research visible?
You can still register for training in research data management and open science
So far, we have over 1,500 registrations for our RDM and open science webinars this autumn.
ITP 2021 was successfully completed with 17 projects and creative solutions to business challenges
Information Technology Program (ITP) was organized for the 26th time this year. Multidisciplinary and international student teams successfully completed altogether 17 business projects.
ºÚÁÏÍø Speech campaign awarded as the best European audio project in 2021
Professor of Speech and Language Processing Mikko Kurimo believes that other small languages and countries can model the successful and award-winning concept
Applications now open ºÚÁÏÍø International Talent Program – initiative brings companies and international students together through group mentoring
Student applications for Aalto International Talent Program are open 1 -15 November 2021. The program brings together international students and Finnish companies.
Students coded an open-source microprocessor that companies can use as they wish
The new processor is suitable, for example, for 6G transceivers and encryption technology. The project encourages young people to study microelectronics; skills that are in high demand in Finland.
Aalto University receives 1 million euros for software-centric industrial automation program
Schneider Electric donation of industrial automation technology, software licenses, and teaching support is to answer for growing need for automation expertise.
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.
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.
Nuclear Finance: Bank Management in Disruption
A new book by Aalto Emeritus Professor Risto Tainio, Taisto Kangas & Anders Kjellman on bank management.
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
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.
