HSE University Life

Dr. Udara Peiris received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2010. He has been part of the HSE faculty for almost two years after accepting the position of Assistant Professor at the International College of Economics and Finance in 2012. Dr. Peiris spoke to 'The HSE LooK' before the summer break.

Prior to her arrival at the Higher School of Economics, Shivleta Tagirova headed the Department for Cooperation with International Organizations at the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia.

Hundreds of students, staff and alumni of the Higher School of Economics, as well as students of the HSE Lyceum and friends of the university, took part in the traditional HSE Summer Health Day at the Kant sports centre.

Dr. Emiliano Catonini, Assistant Professor at the International College of Economics and Finance of the HSE  shares his experience on the academic year 2013-2014 in an interview for The HSE LooK.

The HSE Nizhny Novgorod welcomed high-achieving prospective students and their parents to a ‘professorial breakfast’ on campus to meet with university staff.

HSE researchers Timofey Bordachev and Andrei Skriba published a chapter in the LSE’s special report ‘The Geopolitics of Eurasian Economic Integration’.

Ten students from the Faculty of Law at the HSE Nizhny Novgorod received International Legal English Certificates (ILEC) confirming their high level of English proficiency in the legal profession. ILEC is the world’s first Cambridge exam in English for lawyers and diplomats; those who receive it are recognized as professionals who can freely communicate in English on legal topics.

On June 16, 2014, the International Master in Comparative Social Research Open Day will be held at the HSE. The event is organized by the HSE Faculty of Sociology in Moscow and St. Petersburg together with the Laboratory of Comparative Social Research.

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 that was approved is the Laboratory of Stochastic Analysis and its Applications. Denis Belomestny, Lead Research Fellow at the Laboratory, agreed to shed some light on his work and plans at the HSE.

In the June Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) ranking, the Higher School of Economics took the lead among Russian economics institutes and centres for the first time in the ranking’s history.

Last year the HSE joined Coursera, the world's largest international educational website. Today the HSE offers a number of open online courses in economics as well as courses in applied mathematics, psychology, and courses at the intersection of these disciplines designed by HSE leading professors. Sergey Stepanov, Assistant Professor at ICEF and the Faculty of Economics, shared his expectations of the new online course he is currently working on in the May issue of the HSE Look.

For the first time at HSE’s St. Petersburg campus, the annual meeting of HSE’s International Advisory Committee (IAC) took place on May 23-24. As is tradition, the discussion focused mainly on the HSE’s development as an international university.