Campus news at HSE University

of HSE teachers feel that their work is important for the university’s operation.

HSE Professor Konstantin Sonin has accepted an invitation from Chicago University to serve as a Professor in its Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies. Chicago University is one of the world’s top 10 academic institutions, and the Harris School is one of the United States’ top 5 analytical centers on public policy.

is how long HSE students and lecturers will spend on Solovetsky Islands during HSE summer school.

trees and shrubs were planted by HSE students and staff as part of the ‘Green mobilization’ campaign.

First year MA student at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs’ School of Asian Studies Darya Marshuk took part in the G200 Youth Forum, held from 29 April to 3 May in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.

On May 7th 2015 HSE’s Academic Supervisor Evgeny Yasin celebrated his 81st birthday. There’s hardly a soul in HSE who needs to be told just how much Professor Yasin has done for the university. He isn’t only the initiator of research at HSE. It is thanks to him, and some like-minded people, that the university actually came to life. What began as a university for graduates, has rapidly, and uniquely, become one of the top universities in the country.

The Department of History at the Higher School of Economics – St. Petersburg and the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) will begin student and teacher international mobility cooperation for the 2015/2016 academic year.

Columbus University Professor Andrey Okounkov is the Academic Supervisor of HSE’s International Laboratory of Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics. In an interview with Afisha, he discusses how mathematics education differs in Russia and the U.S., where his insight comes from, and whether it is true that mathematicians are in fact ‘strange individuals.’