HSE University Life

The HSE's Banking Institute has selected the team that will represent the University at the CFA Institute Research Challenge 2014-2015 international student completition in financial analysis.

This edition takes a closer look at the  Faculty of Social Sciences, its departments, people and projects. New international academics Marie Arsalidou and Tadamasa Sawada, both Assistant Professors at the School of Psychology, and Mahama Tawat, Assistant Professor at the Public Policy Department, introduce themselves in short interviews where they discuss their plans and aspirations.

Marco Colosio, M.Sc., the first foreign PhD student at the Centre for Cognition and Decision Making, arrived in Moscow three weeks ago. Marco talks about his scientific interests, his background in Italy and his first impressions of Moscow and CDM-Centre. Marco is a graduate student at University of Padua (Italy), specializing in psychology psychobiology and cognitive science.

Christopher Gerry, the Academic Supervisor of the Department of Humanitarian and Social Sciences, has worked at the Higher School of Economics’ St. Petersburg campus since September 2014. Professor Gerry previously taught at University College London, where he conducted research on the economics of healthcare. More specifically, Professor Gerry studied how the economic situation affects a population’s health and the reforms BRICS countries carry out in this sphere.

Applications continue to be accepted for the Golden HSE, the university’s main prize. We asked those who have either nominated candidates or who have received the award themselves about what it means for them personally and for the university.

HSE’s Extreme Sports student club is organizing this year’s open skiing and snowboarding trip to the slopes of Mount Elbrus and Mount Cheget. The club invites not only students, alumni and staff of the HSE to participate in the event, but also their friends from other universities.

In early October, members of the Moscow HSE's Student Council met with the University's Rector Yaroslav Kuzminov.

Dr. Martin Wenke, Professor of Economics, Ecology and Ethics at Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Germany, gave a lecture for Nizhny Novgorod students on the current situation in Europe as a whole, and Germany in particular.

As part of the 'Managing Human Resources' course, Perm HSE has hosted a lecture by Academic Supervisor of the Research Section on Public Private Partnership, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Management at the University of Padua (Italy), Dr. Paola Valbonese.

ICEF BSc graduate 2007 Eyno Rots defended his PhD thesis in Economics at the Boston University (USA).Topic: 'Essays on Unsecured Credit, Uncertainty, and Learning'.

‘My whole life has in some way been connected with Russia, and not only academically, but also though family. My wife is Russian and our three-year old daughter has dual citizenship. Secondly, I am someone who cannot sit in one place. After about five years I need something different. And the German Academic Exchange Service offers opportunities for teaching abroad, including in Russia,’ Department of History Associate Professor Wulff Dietmar notes about his academic work. Professor Dietmar also shared the secrets of teaching, as well as his impressions from the first weeks of working at the HSE St. Petersburg.

Anastasia Kulbeda, a second-year student in HSE’s Faculty of Management, paired with Dmitry Pleshkov at the 2014 World DanceSport Championship to take home the silver medal in the freestyle division. Freestyle is a 3-4 minute dance number performed by a pair of dancers. The dance has a certain idea behind it and consists of several types of dances. The championship took place in Chengdu, China.