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Dialogue: Let’s make resilience a community resource – not an individual obligation

Is there any skill more important in today’s work world than the ability to cope during challenging times and bounce back quickly?
Aalto Magazine
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Jani Romanoff ja Maria Joutsenvirta seisovat hymyillen ja rinnakkain pienen välimatkan päässä toisistaan valkoisen seinän edessä. Kuvan yläosassa näkyy kuparipintainen portaikko. Joutsenvirta näyttää heiluttavan oikeaa kättään, josta lähtee kuvanmuokkauksella luotu sähkövirtaa muistuttava vaaleansininen viiva kiertäen yläkautta kohti Jani Romanoffin päätä. Kuva: Jaakko Kahilaniemi.

Schedule your autumn My Dialogues conversation

Check out these key tips for having a quality 1-1 discussion.
For Aalto community
University
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Two people talking and smiling

Iina Salmela has started as the premise attendant and Tiia Melander as the building attendant at Ekonominaukio 1

Service requests to building maintenance and feedback on cleaning should be given via the systems
For Aalto community
Campus
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Kauppakorkeakoulun käytäviä. Kuva: Aalto-yliopisto / Mikko Raskinen

Echoing a kindred spirit from a century past

Counsellor of Education Alma Muukka-Marjovuo grew up surrounded by art. Now she works to ensure that all children and young people in Finland have access to top-notch art education.
Aalto Magazine
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Sini-punasävyisessä henkilökuvassa on dramaattinen tunnelma ja vahvat varjot. Alma Muukka-Marjovuon ilme on vakava. Kuva: Aleksi Poutanen.

New loss mitigation technique paves the way for perfect optical resonators

Aalto researchers demonstrate how to create high-quality resonators using optically absorbing materials
Press releases
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Red waves intersect above a rectangular slab with golden squares layered throughout.

The latest Aalto University Magazine delves into the invisible

The September issue asks if we would make different decisions if we could see beneath the surface and know better.
Aalto Magazine
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Kolme kappaletta kumpaakin kieliversiota, suomenkielisiä ja englanninkielisiä, kuvattuna ulkona auringonvalossa, puolukanvarpujen ja sammalten päällä. Kuva: Anni Kääriä.

Professor Matti Kuittinen: 'Hey, take a break at the construction site!'

New construction should be put on hold until we figure out a sustainable solution, says Kuittinen
Aalto Magazine, Research & Art
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Matti Kuittinen seisoo pohdiskelevan näköisenä, leukaa käteensä nojaten valkoisen marmorikuvioisen kiviseinän edessä. Seinään muodostuu hänestä voimakas tumma varjo. Kuvaaja: Nita Vera.

Students learned to solve real life challenges at the Unite! summer school

The Unite! summer school on design thinking and product development brought together over 30 students from six universities in the Unite! alliance.
Studies
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Students working in groups at the Unite! Summer School on Design Thinking and Product Development in August  2023

Openings: Creativity helps us navigate the invisible

Riikka Mäkikoskela’s leading article in Aalto University Magazine describes the combination of rational reasoning, emotional intelligence and radical creativity as an invisible tool in order to birth something new.
Aalto Magazine, Research & Art
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Vihreään asuun pukeutunut Riikka Mäkikoskela istumassa keltaisella tuolilla sivuttain, nojaten käsivarrellaan tuolin selkänojaan. Taustalla on vaalea seinä, jossa on sinisiä, oransseja ja vihreitä aaltoilevia viivoja.

Seed funding call for major interdisciplinary research proposal planning is open

Aalto internal seed funding is targeted for the preparation of major interdisciplinary consortia proposals seeking funding from external funding agencies or industry. The internal funding call closes 15th of October 2023.
For Aalto community
Research & Art, Studies
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Man and woman working together with a laptop

Solved: Problems with AV systems on campus, update 6.9.

Problems with AV systems are now solved
For Aalto community
Campus
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service error notice

Mari Lundström appointed Visiting Professor of the WISE Wallenberg Initiative Material Science for Sustainability at KTH

Mari Lundström does not believe in simple answers and get inspired by people who get excited of unsolved problems. She is new Visiting Professor of the WISE Wallenberg Initiative Material Science for Sustainability at KTH.
Appointments
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Lundström

A summer job as a spatial data trainee made Bai-Bai Bairoh to choose Geoinformatics as his study path

While working as a research assistant during his studies, Bai-Bai has been learning how to bridge the gap in understanding between experts of spatial data and those who know almost nothing about it.
Studies
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Portrait of Bai-Bai Bairoh

Aalto community members awarded for their impressive work

The recognition awards were granted to researchers from the Department of Applied Physics, the creators of Little Finlandia, the student Wappu, the quality audit team, and projects Kielibuusti, Finland Works, and Finland Studies – watch the videos and the recordings!
Awards and Recognition, University
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Recipients of Aalto Awards on Aalto Day One 2023

New academic year kicked off

Aalto Day One highlighted the community’s diversity and internationality
University
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Akateeminen kulkue matkalla lukuvuoden avajaisseremoniaan. Edessä Ida Parkkinen ja Ilkka Niemelä

Guidelines on good scientific practice and research integrity (RI guidelines) updated

Tutkimuseettisen neuvottelukunnan (TENK) antama Hyvän tieteellisen käytännön ohjeistus (HTK-ohje) on uudistunut. The guidelines have been drafted by TENK in cooperation with the Finnish research community.
Research & Art
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New Aalto Distinguished Professor Riitta Salmelin traces the brain’s own ‘fingerprint’

Riitta Salmelin believes that her field of brain imaging has matured to a stage where questions ignored in the early days can now be addressed
Appointments, Campus, Research & Art, University
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Riitta Salmelin

Significant new funding to investigate the impacts of human actions on the water cycle worldwide

Researcher Miina Porkka's ERC-funded research project AQUAGUARD investigates how human actions modify the water cycle and how these changes affect life on Earth.
Research & Art
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Miina Porkka, Aalto University 2023

Ilkka Niemelä to the Finnish Government: Innovations and sustainable growth will be lost if immigration policies are implemented

Internationality has accelerated innovation and helped many Finnish companies from Aalto along their growth trajectories. Nearly half of Aalto University’s academic staff come from outside Finland, and Aalto students are from more than 100 countries.
Press releases, University
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Ilkka Niemelä in his official black ceremony clothes giving speech

Tiny organisms, big discoveries: How swarming shrimp could influence a new wave of ‘mesorobotics’

Aalto researcher aims to understand the complex movement of brine shrimp—a gateway to physics on an unfamiliar scale
Press releases
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Assistant Professor Matilda Backholm looks at shrimp via a screen connected to a microscope.