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21.1.2019

Society & economy

Who runs Russia's prisons? Judith Pallot, who transferred from Oxford to Helsinki, knows prison hierarchy

In Perm, Russia, Professor Judith Pallot met prisoners who were picking mushrooms. Most of the locals are current or former prison camp inmates.

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7.1.2019

Language & culture

Environmental and animal rights arguments have been around for millennia

Animal rights were a popular topic already in ancient Greece, in 17th century England and during the debate on vegetarianism in the 18th century...

15.1.2019

Science news

Finnish efforts to prepare for mission to twin asteroid Didymos

Researchers at the University of Helsinki are equipping a space mission with the purpose of studying a binary asteroid system, i.e. consisting...

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23.1.2019

Society & economy

The Main Building of the University of Helsinki to undergo renovation

23.1.2019

Teaching & studying at the University

Jari Lavonen: The Finnish education system cannot be copied, but parts of it can be exported

23.1.2019

Teaching & studying at the University

Salla Jokela: Future challenges are so complex that solving them requires multidisciplinary groups, collaboration and new kinds of learning

22.1.2019

Health news

GSK and Sanofi join FinnGen, a large scale genome study of the Finnish population

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