HSE University Life

On September 26 twelve HSE faculty members were promoted to Tenured Professors.

On Thursday, September 18, HSE’s Perm campus held a master class led by Monash University (Australia) Professor Graeme Hodge.

HSE-St. Petersburg has hosted the Social Media and Social Movements conference, organized by the Laboratory for Internet Studies (LINIS). Over two days, participants from Germany, Sweden, the UK, the Netherlands, Iran and other countries presented reports about the connections between individuals' activity on social media and their offline activity, and on whether social media impact the desire to protest or take part in social movements.

HSE’s Nizhny Novgorod campus has a new professor. Invited Professor Rajarshi Mitra teaches advanced microeconomics to master’s and Ph.D. students, as well as time series analysis and the academic seminar ‘Econometric Analysis and Modeling in Economics and Finance.’ Professor Mitra comes to the HSE from India, though he has many years of experience working and teaching in the West.

The 22nd HSE Open Tourist Rally will take place on September 20-21, 2014. The rally has been organized by HSE Extreme Sports club, and is open to all HSE students, as well as alumni and faculty. HSE students from Saint Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod often come to Moscow to take part in the event. This time the rally will feature an additional quest element and lots of fun competitions as well as live music.

On the 10th of September, the Higher School of Economics received a lecture entitled 'Luxembourg: the European Fate of a Small State' from Pierre Ferring, Ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to the Russian Federation, and Pierre Frank, Head of the Department of Investment Policy and Foreign Economic Activity of the Ministry of Economics.

Dear students and colleagues, we are asking you to help a fellow member of the HSE family. Ksenia Kapranova, a graduate of HSE Nizhny Novgorod’s Faculty of Law, has recently been diagnosed with diffuse astrocytoma of the left parietal and temporal lobes and is in need of an urgent and expensive operation that can only be done in the U.S. or Germany.

Starting at university is always a bit stressful, if only because there is so much new information to cram into your head, not just academic but organisational too. Where to go, who to ask, how can you not get muddled? Don’t panic!

This summer Lin Yang, a master’s student at ICEF, won one of the prizes in the creative contest ‘How I Decided to Come Study at the HSE’ for his work ‘The Journey of my HSE Life’. HSE News Service has taken the opportunity to talk to Lin about his experience studying and living in Moscow.

In February-March 2014, the HSE launched six new international laboratories following a tender of three-year projects under the supervision of leading international researchers. One of the projects is the Laboratory of Stochastic Analysis and its Applications. The HSE News Service keeps on interviewing new staff members of the laboratory. This time Alexander Veretennikov, Leading Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Stochastic Analysis and its Applications, agreed to tell us about his work and plans at the HSE as well as about his hobbies.

HSE’s first Summer University has come to an end. Some 40 students from an array of countries, ranging from Brazil and the U.S. to South Korea and China, took part in the University.

HSE’s student summer camp in Ruza, Moscow region, has ended.  The two sessions lasted a total of one month and saw the participation of around 350 people. The camp did not separate participants into special groups, and there were no required activities. Members of the camp were in charge of deciding for themselves how to relax and spend their time. They thought up activities and invited their friends to participate in them. Let’s recall what they did.