Students from the Urban Planning and Studies -program got together to test the HINSight-board game on 22.4., continuing the collaboration between University of Helsinki and Newcastle University!

The Computational Chemistry Days are the main annual event of computational chemists and materials scientists in Finland. The event has a well-established tradition, and serves the purpose of bringing ...

The multidisciplinary City Centre Campus in the very heart of Helsinki is the largest campus of the University of Helsinki with its approx. 17 000 students. The City Centre Campus houses the Faculty ...

In general, you are eligible to apply for a doctorate if you meet these conditions: You have completed, or will complete by the deadline, a degree that gives you eligibility to doctoral studies. You ...

The Faculty of Theology prepares students for duties requiring expertise in religions, worldviews and values. We are among Europe’s largest faculties of theology measured by the number of students.

A study conducted at the University of Helsinki, Finland set out to determine how 13 dog breeds performed in various cognitive tests. With a sample size of over 1,000 dogs, the researchers found ...

Researchers at the University of Helsinki have succeeded in something that has been pursued since the 1970s: explaining the X-ray radiation from the black hole surroundings. The radiation originates ...

Researchers at the University of Helsinki have demonstrated that certain strains of Desulfovibrio bacteria are the likely cause of Parkinson’s disease in most cases. The study enables the screening of ...

An abundance of genes has journeyed all the way from Siberia to Finland, a recent study indicates. As late as during the Iron Age, people with a genome similar to that of the Sámi people lived much ...

A study based on Finnish twins shows that reproductive history is associated, at the population level, with women’s lifespan and biological aging. In the study, mothers of large families, women who ...

The online course designed by the University of Helsinki and a learning company MinnaLearn is free and open for everyone. It provides easy-to-understand information and practical examples on the topic ...

The FinnGen research consortium has successfully collected and generated genomic data from 500,000 individuals. Now, the project will continue its search for genetic clues to disease progression and ...