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V盲re鈥檚 public art collection examines equality
Collection was published with 鈥淕lobal Equality鈥 as its art concept.

Aalto鈥檚 faculty and students power Helsinki Design Week
Aalto University people play a prominent role at Helsinki Design Week (HDW), which starts today.

Olli Ikkala appointed Aalto Distinguished Professor
Professor Olli Ikkala at the Department of Applied Physics has been appointed as Aalto Distinguished Professor. The title is awarded to Professors of exceptional academic merit.

Appointment to a tenured position at the Department of Finance
Assistant Professor (2nd term) Elias Rantapuska to Associate Professor (tenured)
鈧17 million to fund European detection and imaging innovation pipeline鈥攑roduct development sparred by Aalto Design Factory
The ATTRACT initiative will fund 170 breakthrough projects in advanced technology for a year with 鈧100.000 each.

Regulations on non-competition agreements are in need of development
Commissioned report by economics working group published on Akava Works webpages.

Textile revolutionaries, public health healer, and lots more
Members of the Aalto community presented the achievements with big impact
Special prize to the Aalto KitSat training satellite in The World Challenge Finland 2018 Competition
Global service for preventing wildfires won the main prize at the UN's international innovation contest in Espoo.
Nearly half of residents in housing companies would like to acquire solar panels 鈥 spreading requires legislative amendment
Gaps in legislation are preventing the adoption of solar PV in Finnish housing companies.

M8 Art Space opens up a new series of exhibitions
Video works by Jemina Lindholm were selected as the first exhibition.

Bodily sensations give rise to conscious feelings
A Finnish research group from the University of Turku, University of Tampere and Aalto University has mapped the organisation of human conscious feelings and found them to cluster into five major categories: positive emotions, negative emotions, cognitive functions, somatic states, and illnesses.

Carbon in colour: First-ever coloured thin films of nanotubes created
Researchers present a technique to produce large quantities of pristine single-walled carbon nanotubes in select shades of the rainbow. The secret is a fine-tuned fabrication process鈥攁nd a small dose of CO2.

Marita Niemel盲 Alumna of the Year 2018 of the School of Chemical Engineering
Curiosity and constant learning are the driving forces for the Vice President, Engineering and Technology at Neste Engineering Solutions Oy.

Berzelius Prize for Professor Riikka Puurunen
The Swedish Catalysis Society presented the prize to Professor Puurunen in Copenhagen on 27 August 2018.

Aalto makes an impact in design research
Aalto people made important research contributions in the Design Research Society DRS conference in Limerick, Ireland.

What happens when you mix cellulose with wool or rice straw? CHEMARTS students spent the summer finding out
Students in this year鈥檚 CHEMARTS summer school have spent three months in the lab learning how to use biomaterials in fresh ways.

Aalto University and VTT launch a major innovation ecosystem aimed at doubling the value of forest industry
Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland signed a collaboration agreement on the CERES flagship programme.

Platform economy and global marketplaces are currently shaping the field of trade
The project supported by Business Finland took almost three years to complete and was concluded at the end of August.
Centre for Quantum Engineering funding awarded for four projects
A total of EUR 318 000 has been granted for project proposals that represent new openings, support emergence of new technologies, applications, and/or industrial collaboration.

Top tools for artificial intelligence and IT are presented to hundreds of conference visitors at Aalto University in August
The tools have been used to improve the safety of drug tests for children, and to understand the cosmos through galaxy clusters.