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Prize in Lighting Technology

Mr. Heikki Pulkkinen received the Best Thesis Award of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) of Finland.
Awards and Recognition, Research & Art
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Tuula Teeri appointed President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences

Tuula Teeri will leave her position as the President of Aalto University probably in the late autumn.
Press releases
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President Tuula Teeri. Photo: Aalto University/ Janne Lehtinen

Researchers pave the way for ionotronic nanodevices

Discovery helps develop new kinds of electrically switchable memories.
Research & Art
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Researchers performed imaging and resistance measurements in a transmission electron microscope using a sample holder with a nanoscale electrical probe. Photo Mikko Raskinen.

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship awarded to study spin entanglement and Dirac materials

Researcher Pablo Burset intends to separate the unruly pairs of entangled electrons with an exciting new device, a Cooper pair splitter, to advance the development of quantum technologies.
Research & Art
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Researher Pablo Burset is working on an exciting new device, a Cooper pair splitter. Photo: Mikko Raskinen.

Adobe Reader DC for Windows workstations

ITS starts updating Adobe Reader PDF reader from version XI to DC in all centrally managed Windows workstations
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Save your lunch! ‒ Restaurant Alvari is experimenting with selling food waste

Amica has started selling the food waste from Monday to Thursday at 5.15-5.30 pm and on Fridays at 3.00-3.15 pm.
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Wiki services are being updated on Saturday 25.2.2017

Our Wiki service provider is doing update work in their network on Saturday 25.2.2017.
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Five new professors pitched their research interests

Provost Ilkka Niemelä welcomed the five new professors and the 60 other faculty members to the networking event organised at the School of Business on 15 February.
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Change affecting the printing charges

Printing services will move from 1 April 2017 into two different types of charging methods.
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Equality questionnaire for students 2016, results published

Aalto University and AYY conducted a questionnaire on equality for students in the autumn 2016.
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Aalto Open will support IPv6!

Aalto Open supports soon IPv6 protocol (Internet Protocol Version 6).
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Emotional expressions of love and loathing clearly differ in motions

Social eMotions research project of Aalto University culminates in an interactive dance performance.
Press releases, Research & Art
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The upper row shows portrayals of love, lower row loathing. The lines show trajectories of limb movements, line widths indicate velocities. Picture: Klaus Förger.

Record-breaking tiny centenary celebration logo only a hundredth of a millimetre in size

The logo for Finland’s centennial was created from silicon with the same method as the world's smallest Aalto vase.
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The smallest logo for Finland’s centennial from two different angles. The first structure included the flag. In the measurement scale below, 5 µm equals two-hundredths of a millimetre. The distance from one edge to another is almost precisely one-hundredth of a millimetre. Images: Nikolai Chekurov/Micronova, Aalto University

Stiff and strong yet light

Assistant Professor Luc St-Pierre studies and develops materials that have a cellular or a grid-like microstructure.
Research & Art
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Aalto University School of Engineering

Hospital clowns’ new costumes made at Aalto

36 new hospital clown costumes were created in the collaboration project of Costume Design and the Finnish Hospital Clowns Association.
Cooperation
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Hospital clowns I.Vipittäjä, Tomera, Vähä-Pokka and Hösselström in their new costumes. Photo: Sairaalaklovnit / Juuso Partti.

On the Monte Carlo Description of Hot Carrier Effects and Device Characteristics of III-N LEDs

Jingrui Li and Patrick Rinke contributed to the collaborative study on III-N LEDs with Aalto scientists and alumni Pyry Kivisaari, Toufik Sadi and Jani Oksanen.
Research & Art
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Professor Patrick Rinke returned to his high school in Germany

Patrick Rinke’s high-school physics teacher Ralf Prüßmeier reported that the students were inspired by the visit and studied with renewed enthusiasm.
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LUMA Centre at Aalto University has two new coordinators

Two new coordinators have started at the LUMA Centre at Aalto University.
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Lecture Halls with High Quality Wireless Network

Aalto ITS has increased the capacity of wireless networks in lecture halls and the number of free power sockets have been calculated.
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Algorithm can create a bridge between Clinton and Trump supporters

Twitter case study aims to minimize the controversies.
Research & Art, Press releases
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Endorsement network of US Elections: each dot indicates a Twitter user and a line between two dots indicates that one user retweeted the other. The two sides, red - republicans and blue - democrats do not endorse each other, while endorsing their own sides heavily. Picture: Kiran Garimella / Aalto University.