HSE University Life

HSE Nizhny Novgorod Management faculty students Anastasia Shikina and Alesya Zaporozhchuk have returned after a year in Austria’s Johannes Kepler University. They share their impressions of studying at our partner university.

Oleg Golishnikov, an Asian Studies master’s student in HSE’s Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, took first place in the essay competition ‘Euro-Atlantic Security: The Role of the OSCE in the Changing World’.

Kerri Matulis is majoring in Psychology and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is spending a semester at the Faculty of Economics of HSE. If students use any of the gym space in the HSE dormitories, they have probably seen some of these items present. While these fitness materials aid students in their quest either to get into shape or to maintain some level of physical fitness, Kerri wants to suggest that there is definitely another option, which can add to both your fitness and sight-seeing routine: running.

Ekaterina Ageeva, third year student on the Fundamental and Computational Linguistics programme at the HSE Faculty of Humanities participated in the international conference on machine translation and presented her paper.

First-year student at the Postgraduate School in Philology Anastasia Preobrazhenskaya is starting a two-month fellowship at the Artes Liberales department of the University of Warsaw. She has spoken to HSE News Service about her experience studying at HSE and future academic plans.

Master's students in the Political Linguistics programme presented papers at a joint Russian-American seminar.

Alexandra Bassel, student of the full-time advanced postgraduate programme at the School of Philology, told the HSE News Service about her internship at the University of Göttingen.

Respect for the environment brings future teachers, architects, economists, programmers and linguists together – as HSE Nizhny Novgorod campus take part in a project to restore forests that suffered in the 2010 forest fires.

619 HSE students entered the Jaguar Game Changer Business case competition. It is the first event of this kind organised as part of HSE’s cooperation with Jaguar Land Rover.

Angi Skhvediani, a fourth-year Management student, recently spent a semester as an exchange student at Audencia Ecole de Management in Nantes. Angi spoke to the HSE News Service about his everyday student life in France.

The Kremlin in Izmailovo, a unique centre for culture and entertainment, hosted the 2nd annual HSE Spring Ball on April 25. The event, organized by students in the Faculty of Economics, saw a large number of participants dressed in historic costumes dating back to the reign of the Tsars. From the observer’s point of view, it seemed as though they had travelled two centuries back in time.

The second annual student contest ‘HSE Face’ has taken place at HSE Perm. Student pairs presenting each bachelor’s programme competed with each other for the title of ‘HSE Face’. Anastasia Bayushkina and Konstantin Faletov, a pair of software engineering students, won the competition.