On May 24, the opening of the exhibition of art works of the School of Architectural and Artistic Endeavor took place in the SUSU Hall of Arts. The school was founded in 2010 by the Department of Design and Arts. The Head of the Department is Associate Professor, a member of the Union of Russian Artists Larisa Surina.
On May 24th, the Day of Slavic Literacy is celebrated. This is a holiday dedicated to Cyril and Methodius who are the creators of the first Cyrillic alphabet. Today, Russian language is also studied by international students. We spoke with the head of the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language of the SUSU Institute Linguistics and International CommunicationElena Kharchenko about how foreign students perceive Russian language.
Ice Arena “Traktor” for the 21st time held the traditional automobile exhibition “Ural Motor Show. Commercial Vehicles”. More than 70 companies from 13 regions, including representatives of the SUSU’s Autotractor Department participated in the event.
A team of students from South Ural State University who won an international competition for young architects in Milan at the end of April have received a special award from KB Strelka. The award marked the team’s participation in an open, national architecture competition to develop a concept for the improvement of key public spaces in 15 Russian cities. The students and graduates of the South Ural State University Faculty of Architecture presented their vision of how Chelyabinsk’s Revolution Square should be re-imagined.
Russian education is gaining increasing popularity among foreign students. Today over 2100 students from 48 countries all over the world study at SUSU in different specialties and concentrations. And according to forecasts, there will be more of them in the coming years. It is not surprising because there are comfortable accommodation facilities and all learning conditions for foreigners in SUSU. They have a great opportunity to get acquainted with Russian culture and start speaking "the great and mighty" Russian language.
A strategic session on main areas of applied science development was held on May 20th at South Ural State University in the framework of the work plan implementation “Roadmap of the Project 5-100”.
The SUSU Center for Computing Engineering started to get ready for the opening of a unique laboratory, in which engineers in the field of production and product life cycle management will be trained.
The National Association for Mass Media Researchers and the Lomonosov MSU Faculty of Journalism have tallied up the results for the 2017 media research contest.
From May 22th to May 27th a massive sport event called Week of Sport is being held across Chelyabinsk.
Everyone can find something to do here. New kinds of sports (flatball, flag football, archery tag, and more), educational training sessions, trips through the Yu.A. Gagarin Park in the form of daytime or nighttime bike quests, and the Festival of Sports, where the most progressive sports will be displayed – all of this is waiting for you.
Master's Degree students from Iraq majoring in Philology (Theory and Practice of English Language) presented the results of their research at the IV International Scientific and Practical Conference "Destiny of Ethnic Cultures Under Globalization" in Chelyabinsk State University. Under the supervision of academic advisors, who are the candidates of philological sciences, associate professors of the Institute of Linguistics and International Communication of SUSU (B.G. Fatkulin, E.I. Khabirova, E.S. Balandina), the postgraduates studied topical linguistic problems.
Museum day, celebrated all around the word for more than 30 years, is May 18th. In honor of this holiday we spoke with the director of the SUSU Museum of Art, Galina Trifonova about the idea of creating a university museum and leading pieces of art and got to know one of the museum’s benefactors, Olga Grazdankina.
“The Week of SUSU Art 2017” is already over. Its closing ceremony was held on May 19 in the main building of SUSU.
Talented students of our university have uncovered their artistic skills in all art forms and participated in contests for five days. The participant Ansar Fatkulin has shared his impressions: “Everything was good and very creative. The people who organized this event did a great job. I was happy to come every day and see how they create something interesting.”
In the beginning of May, the CHEAP festival of street poster art was held for the fifth time in the Italian city of Bologna. For this year’s theme, the organizers of the festival chose "Disorder, please!", suggesting artists and designers to create posters that would go beyond the artistic language, breaking the usual aesthetic order that fits in the dichotomy of “good / bad” , “decency / vandalism”, “legal / illegal”, and would bring up acute issues, reinforcing contradictions.
Franck Leprévost, Vice-President of the University of Luxembourg, visited the International School of Software Engineering at SUSU. The University of Luxembourg is in the world’s top 20 young universities in the world. In the interview, he talked about the importance of information security, his work experience, and the development of South Ural State University.
The international day of museums isn’t just for those who store valuable exhibits, but also for those who find these exhibits.
Archaeologist Aleksandr Tairov, doctor of historical sciences, director of the Eurasian Studies Research Center of the SUSU Institute of Socio-Humanitarian Sciences, has been completing digs in the South Ural region for many years. Among his “spoils” are some completely unique and surprising finds. Aleksandr Dmitriyevich told us about what a museum is in his understanding, how people find their roots and what a gorit is.
On the18th of May the whole world celebrates the International Museum Day. This holiday officially exists since 1978, when during one of the International Council of Museums’ meeting it was decided to establish a new memorable date in the international calendar. Nowadays this holiday is celebrated in more than 150 countries, expressing appreciation and respect to museum workers and visitors.
Over two days in the framework of the Software Engineering International School Franck Leprevost is going to talk about cryptography, science about confidentiality methods.
Franck Leprevost is a Vice-President of the University of Luxembourg, established in 2003. Today the university is ranked among Top-20 Best Young (less than 50 years from the date of foundation) universities of the world.
On May 16, the international scientific and technical conference “Prom-Engineering” was held at South Ural State University.
It is for three years already that SUSU is the base for holding the event. The annual organizers of the conference are still the South Russian State Polytechnic University (Novocherkassk), the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, and the Far Eastern Federal University (Vladivostok).
Since 2012, the Composite Materials Laboratory has been successfully developed at South Ural State University. It appeared as a result of the reorganization of the Composite Materials and Constructions Academic Research Center. Now, the laboratory is within the Expert Mechanical Engineering Research Institute and its research has significant theoretical and practical importance.
The SUSU Week of Art 2017 opened on May 15th. This is a project by students of the Institute of Architecture and Construction for students of our university.
Organizer Kseniya Yanova shared her emotions about the work completed.
“We did this for people so that they expressed themselves, so that they had more art in their lives. Of course we worried a lot, because it’s a large event, but we tried. We succeeded, although there were many problems with finding sponsors, equipment, and signing all of the orders.”
Modern research in the sphere of solar power engineering give us hope that in the nearest future we will be able to use power energy while minimizing damage for the environment. Besides, switching to solar arrays of the new type will allow for considerable reduce expenditure for power consumption. At the present time SUSU scientists are actively conducting research in the sphere of solar energy use.
