A newspaper for international students, “Otherside”, has appeared at South Ural State University. The newspaper publishes the most important news from the university and announces events that may be of interest to students from other countries.
On the last day of the SUSU International Science Council’s program, the representative of the farthest continent – Australia – gave a lecture. Doctor Muthupandian Ashokkumar from the University of Melbourne is a physical chemist specializing in sonochemistry. He has greatly contributed to the production and materials for the food and dairy industries.
The Boxing World Championship, which gathered 300 students from 24 countries, was held in Thailand. They gave out 13 sets of medals – 10 among men and 3 among women. Two awards were won by Chelyabinsk boxers. Among them, SUSU master’s student Artem Garashuk, who won silver in the 75 kilogram weight class. The student of coach Sergey Novikov defeated an athlete from the host country and a boxer from Kazakhstan, but lost in the final round to Ukrainian athlete Valeriy Kharlamov.
The program for the meeting of the Internatinal Science Council included a range of open lectures from leading international researchers on their topics of research. Doctor Maria Zhozefa Yuzuel (Spain) – honored professor of the University of Barcelona, member of the Royal Academies of Science and Art, the Academy of Granada, and the Royal Academy of Zaragoza. Throughout her career she has been awarded national and international awards multiple times. She was a representative and the vice president of the Spanish Optical Society.
A delegation of representatives from the SUSU International Science Council learned about the PlantWeb laboratory of artificial-intelligence based measurement systems which is a joint project between the university, the Emerson company and Metran, the leading Russian company in the development, manufacture, and service of artificial-intelligence based automation.
One of SUSU’s breakthrough areas of work in the 5-100 program is the program for developing alternative energy sources including the creation of materials for solar batteries (photosensitizers) which can increase the efficiency of solar batters and reduce costs per energy unit received. Representatives of the SUSU Institute of Natural and Hard Sciences introduced this and other areas of research to the International Science Council in their presentation of the “Materials sciences and natural sciences” block.
Open lectures by world-class scientists are continuing at SUSU. On October 11th, the president of the Emerson company Edward Monser discussed the true meaning of leadership and shared his personal experience as the head of a large corporation.
On Tuesday October 11th, doctor Mohammed Milad, member of the International Science Council and assistant professor of the Harvard Medical School department of psychology held two lectures at SUSU dedicated to fear. Where the first lecture was mostly dedicated to the nature of this phenomenon, in the second doctor Milad talked about how a person can dull this feeling with the help of medical technology.
As part of the program for the SUSU International Science Council’s meeting a new event was held: presentation of the block “Engineering Science” for the delegation of international scientists. Representatives of our university touched on a global issue and brought the delegates’ attention to the development of one of the breakthrough areas of university by the university: global asteroid safety (Aerospace Engineering Project).
On October 11th the first open lectures were held by international scientists visiting SUSU as part of an International Science Council meeting.
The marathon of lectures was opened by Mohammed Milad, assistant professor of the Harvard Medical School and director of the laboratory of behavior neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
On October 10th at South Ural State University, world-class researchers gathered to become acquainted with the university’s structure, its position in the educational system, and its prospects for future development.
The International Research Council from South Ural State University is holding its first formal meeting in Chelyabinsk October 10th through the 12th.
The International Research Council is a new structure that has been created at the University to coordinate research and educational activities in accordance with the best international practices.
Similar councils are being created at all the Universities participating in Project 5-100, which is aimed at helping Russian universties enter the top-100 worldwide before 2020.
A seminar by the country’s leading methodologist in the area of accounting, Igor Sukharev, and director of the National Nongovernmental Accounting Regulator, the Accounting Methodology Center, Oksana Sukhareva, was held at SUSU. These two are the developers of the leading standards for accounting of fixed assets, inventory, and intangible assets.
From October 6th through 27th, the SUSU OkNo Gallery of Modern Art will be presenting projects by Olga Grazhdankina and Pavel Pakharukov, “Meaning and Intention: Contamination” (graphics, ceramics, and installations).
October 10th-12th at SUSU the first meeting of the International Science Council (ISC) was held. The goal of this council is to coordinate the university’s research and academic activity with the best world practices. This is one of the most important initiatives for realization of the university’s Road Map program in the 5-100 Project.
Head of the laboratory of crystal growth at the Nanotechnology research center, assistant professor of the Department of Materials Sciences and Materials Physical Chemistry, and chairman of the Society of Young Scientists and Specialists of the Chelyabinsk Oblast, Denis Vinnik, was named SUSU’s most cited author in September 2016 according to the professional scientific social network www.researchgate.net.
On Tuesday, September 27th, South Ural State University attended a delegation for the company Emerson, a leader in the area of system automation in industry and a long-time strategic partner to the university. As part of this business meeting, representatives of the company discussed directions for collaboration with the university.
September 23rd-25th at the SUSU “Science” Recreation Center the 1st International Practical Science Conference, “Dialogue of Eurasian Cultures” was held. Organizers for the conference included the Pushkin Institute methodological and academic center and the Russian as a Foreign Language department of the Institute of Linguistics and International Communication (ILIC).
An order from the Russian Ministry of Education and Science confirmed the recipients of the Russian Federation Presidential and Government Scholarships for the 2016/2017 academic year. The financial awards are given for outstanding abilities in academic and scientific work (winners of Olympiads, artistic competitions, authors of scientific breakthroughs, two or more inventions, scientific articles in central publications).
From September 13th through 16th in Liverpool (Great Britain) the 28th Annual Conference and Exhibition of the European Association of International Education was held. This is the main European venue that gathers experts in the area of higher education from all around the world. South Ural State University was presented at a combined booth for Russian universities participating in the 5-100 Project.
In the beginning of September, project 8.1.3, Implementation of a System of Deeper Language Training in Bachelor's Programs, started as part of the 5-100 Project (project initiator – Elena Yaroslavova, project curator – Viktor Katochkov, portfolio director – Liudmila Shestakova.)
International conference “The Future of the Eurasian Space” was held on September 8th at South Ural State University. The government of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Fund for Socio-economic Development “Eurasian Community”, South Ural State University, and the M. Osimi Tajik Technical University participated as organizers of the event.
Experts from Russia, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and representatives of expatriates of the Central Asian region in the South Urals and in the Khanty-Mansisk autonomous region participated in the international conference.
Annual ratings of universities by the V. Potanin Charitable Fund have been published once again. The rating was compiled over the last 12 years at the conclusion of the Fund's academic programs for students and professors and is one of the leading independent ratings of the quality of higher education in Russia.
South Ural State University notably improved its indicators and took the 29th position this year (last year the university was in 42nd place).
