New Year is around the corner and today The HSE LooK shares holiday traditions from India and Korea contributed by our international professors and postdocs.
On Campus
At a meeting of the HSE Academic Council, Director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College, HSE International Advisory Committee Member, Philip Altbach was awarded the title of HSE Honorary Professor.
For New Year's special of The HSE LooK we have been gathering winter holiday traditions from around the world and many of our findings were kindly shared by our international professors and postdocs. Today we present contributions from Brazil and the US!
New Year's special edition of The HSE LooK is now available for read and download! For this issue we have been gathering winter holiday traditions from around the world and many of our findings were kindly shared by international professors and postdocs. Today we present contributions from Germany and Italy.
We welcome aboard Matteo Feurra, who joined HSE in September 2014 as Assistant Professor at the School of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences. Dr. Feurra spoke to The HSE LooK about his research and work plans.
With 172 lifts in 5 minutes, he beat his own record at weightlifting of 55 kg weights that he set in June 2014 (153 times in 5 minutes).
Each year, HSE holds a competition for the best teacher. For the first time, this year’s elections for the best teachers will be open to foreign students at HSE on academic exchange programmes. Elena Artyukhova and Svetlana Samsonova speak about how voting will be organized for foreign students.
On December 5, the Higher School of Economics hosted the Piano Evening for Two. The event lasted two hours, during which time Michel Grabisch, Professor of Computer Sciences at University Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, and Sergei Erofeev, Vice Rector of HSE, performed compositions by Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Ravel and Bach.
This issue continues the series profiling the new HSE Faculties. This time it brings the Faculty of Economics into the spotlight. The Faculty’s Dean, Oleg Zamulin, explains how the faculty was formed and outlines the current major development priorities. The editors also welcome aboard new international professors, who began their work at the university, and draw readers’ attention to the calls for papers for PhD Seminars planned as part of the XVI April International Academic Conference.
The November issue of The HSE LooK continues our series profiling the new breakdown of HSE Faculties. This time we will bring the Faculty of Economics into the spotlight. The Faculty’s Dean, Oleg Zamulin, explains how the faculty was formed and outlines the current major development priorities. This article is based on a conversation with Prof. Zamulin.