Thousands of participants, top-tier speakers, reunions with friends, and a dance party—all of this came together to make the traditional HSE festival. STUDENT NIGHT took place on January 24–25, 2025 at the Pokrovka campus, where contests were followed by extracurricular lectures, and master classes alternated with stand-up performances and dance battles.

HSE University’s Eastern Perspective expert club has held its first event—a business session dedicated to developing successful businesses in India. The club was created by HSE experts to discuss tools, trends, and insights for cooperation between Russia and countries in Southeast Asia, the Middle and Near East, and North Africa. The event featured experts with years of experience working in the Indian market on behalf of major corporations.

On January 30, the Rovesnik bar will host a screening of outstanding animations by students of the HSE Art and Design School. The programme features more than forty animated works exploring the themes of friendship and love, victory and defeat, and simply fun stories. In addition to artistic animations, visitors will be able to see advertisements, promos, and videos for nonprofit organisations. All of these works were created by students based on briefs from real clients.

Until March 16, 2025, the Machine Tool Museum, located in the Oktava creative industrial cluster, is hosting an exhibition organised by curators from the HSE Art and Design School. The exhibition explores the phenomenon of multisensoriality and features projects by the school's teachers.

A collaborative study by Sergey Stepanov, Associate Professor at the HSE Faculty of Economic Sciences, and experts from INSEAD Business School and NYU Shanghai, indicates that in making decisions under high uncertainty, where it is unclear which choice is superior, advice from independent experts may be more beneficial than a collective opinion from a group of experts. The study has been published in Games and Economic Behavior.

In 2024, the online Russian-taught master’s programme ‘Artificial Intelligence,’ offered by the HSE Faculty of Computer Science, saw a record number of first-year students—over 300. What accounts for such a high interest in AI, how the curriculum is structured, and what new skills will graduates acquire? Elena Kantonistova, the programme’s academic director, shares more.

How does one end up at United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) as an exchange student? Are classes at UAEU really single-sex? What is there to do at the weekend? ICEF student Ulyana Kobylkina and FES Economics and Data Science student Nika Prokudina share their experiences of their recent exchange.

This year, HSE University will open admission to ten new bachelor's programmes. Three of them—Architecture, Game and Digital Product Development, and Chemistry of New Materials—have recently been approved by HSE University's Academic Council. Here, we provide more details on these programmes.

In high school, Mikhail Shishkin used to dismiss probability theory as mere speculation, but today he applies it to solving problems in population genetics. In this interview with the HSE Young Scientists project, he discusses what a modern person's genome can reveal about the past, the question he would pose to the author of Fermat's Great Theorem, and The Ashley Book of Knots.