From Agrarian Studies to Zoos: Professor Tracy McDonald Speaks about Her Interests
Tracy McDonald is a professor of Russian and Soviet History at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. In 2011, her first book, Face to the Village: The Riazan Countryside Under Soviet Rule was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2011. Currently she is conducting research for a book titled Behind the Iron Bars: A History of Soviet Zoos. She presented a lecture ‘Saving Beauty: Moscow and Leningrad Zoos during the Second World War’ in the HSE, Moscow and kindly agreed to answer a few questions for the HSE news service.
Experts Discuss Problems with Technology Parks
The third International Summit of Technology Parks and Business Incubators – ‘Technology Parks as New Drivers of Development for the National Economy’ – was held in Moscow. The summit was organized by the HSE together with the science park of Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) and Skolkovo’s technology park.
60%
of Russians are prepared to join up with other people for some sort of collaborative action if their ideas and interests coincide; 28% are not prepared.
HSE and GDF Suez Partnership: Results of the First Academic Year
HSE’s International Institute of Administration and Business (IIAB) is selecting students for the Master in European Business (MEB) programme. The programme is being carried out with the cooperation of several international companies. The head of the Russian division of French gas company Gaz de France (GDF) Suez, Albert Grigoryan, describes the format of the project.
HSE Publishing House to Present New Books
Each year the Higher School of Economics publishes a number of works on various topics that are of interest not only to specialists but also to a wide range of readers. From June 11 to 14, the Central House of Artists on Krymskiy Val will host the IX Moscow International Open Book Festival, which will feature the HSE Publishing House.
'I Try to Say Surprising Things, to Keep Students on Their Toes'
From June 3 – 18, 2014, you can hear Kennon M. Sheldon reading a series of lectures on the Positive Psychology of Motivation at the HSE. The lectures are open to all students and staff.
Virtual Art in Modern Museums - HSE Design Day at Intermuseum 2014
On June 6, 2014 as part of the international festival ‘Intermuseum-2014’ the HSE Faculty of Design held a Design Day at Moscow Manege. Leading experts of the HSE Faculty of Design delivered seven lectures during the festival. They covered museum branding, infographics as part of modern exhibition design, interactive elements in museum exposition, iPad applications for museums, mobile architecture and many others.
HSE Nizhny Novgorod Is Developing Its Links with Intel
Students at the HSE Nizhny Novgorod Faculty of Business Informatics and Applied Mathematics successfully completed the Intel Delta Course 2014 'Additional Chapters on Software Engineering' and were given their certificates.
'Big Data' Help Doctors Choose a Treatment Method
Over the course of 20 years, since the beginning of contemporary medicine’s transition into a digital format, a vast amount of largely unused data has amassed. The analysis of these data and the extraction of a new logic of control from them is one of the most popular areas of focus in applied mathematics, Oleg Pianykh, Professor in HSE’s Department of Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence and an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, said in a report. His report, 'Big Data in Medicine: How to Make them Work,' was presented at HSE’s academic seminar 'Mathematical Models of Information Technologies.'