‘The Graduation Ceremony Was the First Time We Saw Each Other’: 2023 MASNA Graduates Celebrate in Person
On July 3, the HSE University building on Pokrovka hosted the graduation ceremony of the Master’s in Applied Statistics with Network Analysis (MASNA). The programme, which trains students to use modern approaches in data and network analysis, is taught fully online in English. We spoke to Jiaxuan Wang, Sergio Camposortega, and Iris Cilenšek, three international students who came to Moscow for the graduation ceremony. The recent graduates shared their thoughts about the online format and finally meeting their classmates in person.

ANR-Lab research assistants successfully defended their Undergraduate theses
The research assistants of the laboratory defended the final qualifying works (theses) for the Bachelor of the educational programs "Political Science" (Lika Kapustina) and "Sociology" (Arsen Khabibullin, Daniil Khomchenko, Vasilisa Vashchenko and Anna Pishchikova). We congratulate our research assistantss and decided to share some information about their works.

MASNA Graduation 2023
On July 3, the graduation of the master's programme 'Applied Statistics with Network Analysis' was held for students of the 2021 enrollment.
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MASNA Х ‘Nuzhna pomosh’
Ksenia Babikhina and Karina Pipiya, researchers of the 'Nuzhna pomosh' charitable foundation, as well as Ivan Klimov, academic supervisor of the online master’s programme 'Applied Statistics with Network Analysis', have discussed the cooperation prospects of students project-based learning.

ANR-Lab and HSE Online launch Network Analytics for Business online specialization
A specialization with a focus on current industry cases is designed for practicing business analysts who seek to supplement their professional toolkit with the latest analytical methods.

13th ANR-Lab Summer School "Network Analysis and Contemporary Decision Sciences"
From August 1 to September 3, the 13th summer school of the International Laboratory for Applied Network Research "Network Analysis and Contemporary Decision Sciences" was held. More than 50 people took part in the school. The program was based on the courses "Introduction to Social Network Analysis", "Advanced Social Network Analysis" and "Contemporary Decision Science". The classes were taught by professors from Ljubljana, Vladimir Batagelj and Luka Kronegger, as well as ANR-Lab employees Dina Yakovleva and Daria Maltseva.

ANR-Lab’s minor “Applied and network analytics”
Since September 2022, ANR-Lab continues to train 3rd year students at the “Applied and Network Analytics” minor.

Summer School of the HSE Centre for Sociocultural Research
ANR-Lab members Daria Maltseva and Stanislav Moiseev took part in the XII Summer School of the Centre for Sociocultural Research "Cross-cultural research design development" for students, graduate students and academic staff, which took place in Zvenigorod from June 26 to July 1.

MASNA 2020 graduation
On July 2, 2022, the solemn presentation of diplomas to graduates of the 4th cohort of the Master's programme “Applied Statistics with Network Analysis” took place.

Maria Matveeva is the winner of the 1st degree of the Major League Olympiad for Students and Alumni
ANR-Lab research assistant Maria Matveeva won the 1st degree of the Major League Olympiad for Students and Alumni in the direction of Sociology in the track “Applied methods of social analysis of markets.”