HSE University Life

Tenured Professor Vladimir Kantor became one of the honored guests at the 41st international book fair (Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires).

Alexandra Bassel, student of the full-time advanced postgraduate programme at the School of Philology, told the HSE News Service about her internship at the University of Göttingen.

The Kremlin in Izmailovo, a unique centre for culture and entertainment, hosted the 2nd annual HSE Spring Ball on April 25. The event, organized by students in the Faculty of Economics, saw a large number of participants dressed in historic costumes dating back to the reign of the Tsars. From the observer’s point of view, it seemed as though they had travelled two centuries back in time.

The second annual student contest ‘HSE Face’ has taken place at HSE Perm. Student pairs presenting each bachelor’s programme competed with each other for the title of ‘HSE Face’. Anastasia Bayushkina and Konstantin Faletov, a pair of software engineering students, won the competition.

On 25th April 2015, the HSE students’ project Agents of Health Against Stroke took first place at a pitching session for non-commercial organisations at the Fifth Lime International Festival of Social Advertising in Moscow.

At the media competition Front Page in Nizhny Novgorod at the end of April, the student newspaper 'Vyshka' and the website 'The Vyshka' representing the Moscow HSE campus, took first place in three categories.

HSE Open 2015, an international tournament, was held by the HSE Debating Society in March. Participants included a number of highly experienced Russian debaters as well as a large number of international teams from Turkey, the U.S., the Netherlands and Germany.

In Nizhny Novgorod, battery collection boxes can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Today, thanks to the initiative shown by HSE students, there are four more boxes.

In April The HSE Look is devoted to  presentation of academic achievements. The editors cover the XVI April Conference  – presentations of plenary speakers and impressions of international participants. Keyong Hun Lee, Assistant Professor at the International College of Economics and Finance (ICEF), shares his research projects and experience of working with students at HSE. 

How often do you think about the environment? Every day? Once a month? Never? The Green HSE movement asks you to think about it at least once a year during its Strawberry event, which takes place from April 22 – 24, 2015. On April 22, Earth Day, founded by the UN in 2009, is celebrated globally. In Moscow, 12 universities, including MSU, MGIMO, RUDN, and Moscow Institute of Architecture, will host events on this day as part of the VuzEcoFest 2015 festival.

Students from the Faculty of Social Sciences and international Master’s students at HSE Moscow are launching Read Square — a new online magazine in English. Read Square will be updated every three weeks and will offer international insight and opinion on Higher School of Economics news, science and future perspectives in a global world.

Perm hosted the Russian Championship for formation dance, a special type of team competition in which several pairs of dancers synchronously perform a number that typically consists of a series of Latin American dances. The Duet Ensemble, which is made up of three female students from HSE Perm, was the winner.