HSE University Life

Aleksandra Sazhina (Khamadieva), Lecturer in the School of Management at the HSE Campus in Perm, presented the interim results of her dissertation research at the 2nd International Winter School of the NES Center for the Study of Diversity and Social Interactions. The school was devoted to ‘The Impact of Cultural and Social Diversity in Economic Development’.

An HSE student team majoring in software engineering and business informatics won in a category of the Hackathon for developers of mobile applications and web-services in Perm. The students developed an application for diagnosing a patient’s condition based on symptoms.

The Latin category of the World DanceSport Federation World Championship took place in December 2014 in Bremen, Germany. Duet Ensemble, which included students from HSE Perm took home the silver medal.

The HSE Student Support Unit organized a trip to Etnomir ethnographic park, where our international students immersed themselves in the atmosphere of old Russian life, played traditional games, and even baked rye bread in a workshop.

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).

Alexandra Dvoytsova, a soloist with Sona Hovsepyan Dance Company, won the silver medal at the world tap dance championships in Riesa, Germany. She scored just one point below the gold medal winner, a dancer from the U.S.

On December 3, 2014, a delegation consisting of some of the largest Chinese universities from the BRICS Universities League visited HSE St. Petersburg. The group included the Vice President of Zhejiang Normal University, the Deputy Dean of Tsinghua University's Institute of International Relations, and leadership from Fudan University's Centre for BRICS Studies.

On December 5, 2014, the winners of the Cultural Marathon, an intellectual quest for HSE students, were honoured at a ceremony at HSE.

The visit by our Chinese partners is an organic part of the agreement between our universities to work together in academic and research fields. This year a group of Chinese students attended an HSE Nizhny Novgorod summer school and in September our students returned from Sichuan province where they were studying Chinese law-enforcement practices.

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.

If you are interested in any mountaineering activity, be it skiing or snowboarding then this is the club for you. Every year Extreme Sports Club organizes trips to the mountains, so that everybody can enjoy skiing and snowboarding. From February 21st to March 1st, 2015, the Club is organizing a trip for HSE students, lecturers and staff, as well as their friends to Gudauri, one of the best ski resorts in Georgia. Registration is open until February 16th, 2015.

On December 5,the Coursera: First Results roundtable will be held. Coursera, an international online educational platform, has been used for 12 HSE courses. This first cycle of courses has come to a close, with more than 340,000 students from around the world having signed up for HSE courses so far. Another 10 courses are currently open for registration.