HSE University Life

HSE’s Nizhny Novgorod campus has a new professor. Invited Professor Rajarshi Mitra teaches advanced microeconomics to master’s and Ph.D. students, as well as time series analysis and the academic seminar ‘Econometric Analysis and Modeling in Economics and Finance.’ Professor Mitra comes to the HSE from India, though he has many years of experience working and teaching in the West.

The Higher School of Economics is becoming more and more internationalized. It is for this reason that HSE Day, which took place at Gorky Park, reached an international level as well. Among the numerous activities at the event were ones that featured English as their main form of communication. Thanks to this, international students, foreign instructors, and all guests of the celebration who wanted to speak English were able to feel they could take full participation in the events.

The 22nd HSE Open Tourist Rally will take place on September 20-21, 2014. The rally has been organized by HSE Extreme Sports club, and is open to all HSE students, as well as alumni and faculty. HSE students from Saint Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod often come to Moscow to take part in the event. This time the rally will feature an additional quest element and lots of fun competitions as well as live music.

On September 17, the HSE Perm will host an open lecture by Professor Hodge on the phenomenon of public-private partnership. Graeme Hodge, Professor of Law at Monash University (Australia), studies issues of social and economic policy, public administration and law in Europe, Australia, the Philippines, Indonesia, and China.

On the 10th of September, the Higher School of Economics received a lecture entitled 'Luxembourg: the European Fate of a Small State' from Pierre Ferring, Ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to the Russian Federation, and Pierre Frank, Head of the Department of Investment Policy and Foreign Economic Activity of the Ministry of Economics.

Dear students and colleagues, we are asking you to help a fellow member of the HSE family. Ksenia Kapranova, a graduate of HSE Nizhny Novgorod’s Faculty of Law, has recently been diagnosed with diffuse astrocytoma of the left parietal and temporal lobes and is in need of an urgent and expensive operation that can only be done in the U.S. or Germany.

A team of students and alumni from the Higher School of Economics took part in the bicycle parade #WowMoscow on Moscow City Day. The cyclists rode 26 kilometers along Moscow’s streets and embankments, going all the way from the Worker and Kolkhoz Woman monument at VDNKh to Krasnaya Presnya Park.

Anna Shpektor, Research Assistant at the Centre for Cognition and Decision Making and student at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at Moscow State University took part in the Yale Summer Session this year. She gave the HSE news service a brief interview about her experience.

On the 16^th of August, CultFest 2014 was held at Tavricheskiy Sad, St Petersburg, organised by the international student organisation AIESEC. In addition to serving as an academic partner for the event, HSE conducted a workshop on international education for visitors and participants.

Starting at university is always a bit stressful, if only because there is so much new information to cram into your head, not just academic but organisational too. Where to go, who to ask, how can you not get muddled? Don’t panic!

Professor Vereshchagin has been elected to the Informatics section of the Academy of Europe. The Academia Europaea is a functioning European Academy of Humanities, Letters and Sciences, composed of individual members. Membership is by invitation.

From the 5 -9 August the Fourth Global International Studies Conference organised by the World International Studies Committee took place in Frankfurt. The dean of the the HSE Social Studies Faculty, Andrei Melville, spoke in his capacity as Chairman of the Programme Committee.