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In late October 2025, HSE University students achieved outstanding results in several Capture the Flag (CTF) competitions on information security. Five students joined the Moscow national team, which won the Russian Sports Programming Championship, while three other HSE teams became finalists and winners of the UralCUP CTF and the Kuban CTF tournaments. The CTF Academy, an initiative that brings together students and teachers, has served as a central hub for building HSE's CTF community.

Future cardiologists, geneticists, and IT specialists gathered at HSE University to learn how to 'read' DNA for diagnosing cardiovascular diseases. They explored modern sequencing methods and the complexities of working with digital twins of cardiac patients.

Why do statistical methods sometimes yield unexpected results? How does the creative approach help to process data in complex linguistic research? Is there 'a magic button' to analyse the results? The answers to these and other questions were the topic of the three-day autumn school 'Statistics in Psycho- and Neurolinguistics.'

Maria Andreeva became interested in satellite engineering in Year 6. Then, she was a prize-winner of the Top Class (Vysshiy Pilotazh) competition, gave lectures for school students, and took part in meetings with the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. Two years ago, a satellite she helped develop was launched into space. This year, Maria entered HSE University to study on the Information Science and Computation Technology programme delivered by the HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (MIEM). In an interview with the HSE News Service, the first-year student spoke about her passion for space and the opportunities she has found at the university.

Uliana Kisataeva, a student at the HSE Graduate School of Business, was one of the winners of the UN Global Compact PRME 2025 Business Case Competition supported by the United Nations. As part of the competition, Uliana presented a digital platform called Green B2B Match, which can help businesses reduce their carbon footprint and contribute to the development of responsible consumption. In an interview with the HSE News Service, she spoke about her project, the competition, and her victory.

Master’s students of the HSE ISSEK programme ‘Science, Technology and Innovation Management and Policy’ have released a joint research collection with the University of Campinas (Brazil) and Tsinghua University (China) titled ‘Being Innovative or Being on the Safe Side—Managing the Risk of Failure.’ The authors explore how organisations perceive risks and embrace innovation within different cultural contexts.

HSE University in Perm hosted a meeting with Tatyana Kim, head of RWB and founder of Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retail platform. The event took the form of an open dialogue and was devoted to the role of marketplaces in the digitalisation of the economy and the development of small and medium-sized businesses.

Expert sessions, an introduction to Russian culture, and international networking—on September 17–22, Nizhny Novgorod hosted the World Youth Festival Assembly. It united more than two thousand people from 120 countries and various Russian regions and universities, including HSE University–St Petersburg.