Higher School of Economics

Daria Morozova holds a bachelor’s and a master’s from HSE and serves as the Head of Retail Business Analysis and Planning within the Financial Management Department at Rosbank. In this interview, Daria shares how combining work at a bank and study at HSE helped her find solutions to workplace challenges, and how she realised that preventing employee burnout is essential in leading a team.

On November 24, a training session for international students on ‘How to Make a Good Impression in an Interview: Non-Verbal Communication’ took place at HSE University. It covered the basics of nonverbal communication and body language; non-verbal mistakes; nonverbal tricks, and much more. Together with the expert, HSE students worked on self-confidence and solved real communication cases.

In early November 2023, a delegation from HSE University visited the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shenzhen. HSE University representatives took part in CUHK-Shenzhen 2023 International Partner Day and discussed the existing student exchange agreement with colleagues from China.

Valery Kalyagin, Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science and Tenured Professor at HSE University in Nizhny Novgorod, has been named a laureate of the national ‘Professor of the Year’ award in the Central Federal District.

Photography Week took place on November 20–25 at the HSE Art and Design School. As part of the festival, the HSE ART GALLERY presented works by students of the Photography track from recent years, while CREATIVE HUB hosted a conference titled ‘Photography: More than Art.’

A team of researchers from the HSE Centre for Language and Brain and Alexeev Mental Health Clinic examined the relation between subjective complaints about language function and objective language performance in elderly people. It was found that participants who expressed higher concerns about their language function compared to their memory faced greater difficulties with language tasks. 

Based on the assessment results, the programme's strengths were identified as its broad coverage of educational disciplines, in-depth exploration of theoretical aspects in machine learning, the quality of staff, and the involvement of potential employers. This is the fifth educational programme at the HSE Faculty of Computer Science to receive this accreditation.

The Student Activist Group at HSE University in Perm has held the large-scale ‘SAWalk: Step into Art’ event. This time, the quest walk was dedicated to Perm art: painting, literature, cinema, theatre, and street art. More than 200 students and 40 teams took part in it.

On November 17-19, The HSE Faculty of Computer Science, SBER and cloud technology provider Cloud.ru organised HSE Sber ML Hack, a hackathon based around machine learning. More than 350 undergraduate and graduate students from 54 leading Russian universities took part in the competition.