The Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (INSM) of South Ural State University combines fundamental scientific training and modern technologies, what allows it to be a competitive “supplier” of employees on the current labour market. The Institute comprises three faculties (Faculty of Mathematics, Mechanics and Computer Sciences, Faculty of Physics and Faculty of Chemistry), maintains active scientific bonds with the leading universities of Great Britain, Germany, USA, Spain, Serbia, and Finland.
June 6th is Pushkin Day. 219 years ago, the great writer and poet, whose compositions are considered to be classics of international literature, was born. On the occasion of this day, Director of the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, Head of the SUSU Department of Russian Language and Literature, Elena Ponomareva, told us about the unique features of philology students’ training.
In the course of several decades of its existence, South Ural State University provided training of thousands of talented specialists and brilliant scientists. In 2018, the university celebrates its 75th anniversary, and now it is represented by entire scientific dynasties, including the Ryabukhin dynasty.
A delegation from SUSU visited Geographical Institute Jovan Cvijić of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Belgrade, Republic of Serbia). The goal of the visit was to discuss future joint research in the sphere of tourism, as well as its development in Russia and Serbia.
June 4th and 5th workshops were held at South Ural State University as part of the visit by a consultant of QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) Company Jacques de Champchesnel. QS specializes on holding expert and analytical studies, and publishes yearly most authoritative rankings of the world’s best universities.
The Day of Ecologist is celebrated in Russia in the beginning of June. The professional holiday of volunteers and specialists in the sphere of nature protection has existed for 10 years already. It was established by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, dated July 21 of 2007, upon an initiative of the State Duma Committee for Ecology, on the World Environment Day.
Is it possible to create building material which would be some kind of analogue to fragile glass: possess concrete’s strength and at the same time transmit light?
Scientists thought up how to combine these likely incompatible properties in one and invented material of the future which is as good as its foreign analogues. And now the scientists are working on imparting it with new characteristics.
Within the framework of fulfilling the Philosophical Practice strategic scientific program the Department of Philosophy of the SUSU Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities prepared a Brief Dictionary-Presentation Language of Philosophical Practice, in Russian and in English.
This dictionary is a contribution of Russian scientists – SUSU’s lecturers, who are fruitfully collaborating with their foreign colleagues in the field of philosophical practice.
The organizers of the My Law-making Initiative all-Russian contest for educational institutions and scientific organisations for the best work are State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation and All-Russian Non-governmental Organisation “National System of Development of Scientific, Creative and Innovative Activities of Russian Youth “Integratsiya”.
Scientists of South Ural State University developed a new generation of protective materials with high strength. Work on this important project was supported by a grant by the President of the Russian Federation.
Anna Nechaevskaya, who became bronze medalist of the Winter Olympic Games–2018 in Pyeongchang, defended her dissertation dedicated to the study of physical education effect on development of troubled adolescents. The Olympic medalist completed her master’s degree studies at the SUSU Institute of Sport, Tourism and Service in the program of “Physical Education”. The athlete expressed her gratitude to the university for the support during her study.
A delegation from the university, including Associate Professors of the Department of Combustion Engines and Automotive Electronic Systems of the Polytechnic InstituteGeorgiy Lomakin and Viktor Shishkov and analyst of the International Scientific Collaboration Department, Yuliya Balakina visited the first coordination meeting for the ERASMUS+ project entitled “Improvement of university training on heat and power systems for cleaner environment and advanced training for PhD (ASIA
Master’s and postgraduate students of the SUSU School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science have the unique opportunity to study in two universities at one time and obtain two degrees – one from South Ural State University and one from Lappeenranta University of Technology (Lappeenranta, Finland). In the new academic year, SEECS is once again inviting applicants to joint Russian-Finnish master’s and postgraduate programs.
South Ural State University staff visited three academic institutions in the Kyrgyz Republic. The delegation participated in meetings with representatives of international universities to strengthen and create contacts with SUSU May 18th through 23rd. The Head of the SUSU International Affairs Division Olga Yaroshenko speaks about the agreements the parties came to.
– Who was part of the delegation from South Ural State University?
The Day of healthy diet and excess food refusal is celebrated in Russia starting from June 2 of 2011. It reminds us that we should have a conscious approach to eating in order to be healthy and beautiful. But in the modern pace of life with office hours, overloaded schedule and constant stress, food often becomes not just a source of energy but a cult. Senior expert of SUSU’s Research and Development Center of Sport Science, Professor Tatiana Vladimirovna Popova told us how to find a right approach to food.
South Ural State University keeps expanding the boundaries of international cooperation. Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and International Trade, whose delegation visited our university on May 24th and 25th, expressed the willingness to become a partner of SUSU for the first time. Representatives of the educational institution had a glimpse at the possibilities that SUSU can give to its students.
Students of the SUSU School of Economics and Management undertake internships in the leading enterprises of Chelyabinsk and the region. More than a hundred of enterprises provide future economists and managers with the opportunity to carry out financial calculations and operations, analyze indicators and results of business and financial performance, and implement development of project and managerial decisions under conditions of real-life production.
Pushkin Institute Research, Education and Coordination Center invites everyone to Sigma Education Building (Room 309) on June 6th at 13:00 for a celebration event on the occasion of Alexander Pushkin’s Birthday.
Children’s Day is celebrated around the world on June 1st. South Ural State University pays special attention to developing modern technologies, which facilitate intellectual and physical development of people of various ages. Innovations for Kids Company (StandUp Innovations LLC) is a successful SUSU’s small innovative enterprise, which jointly with the university employees is working on creating unique programs for interactive complexes. The company’s Director Dmitry Andreev shares on their developments which do not have analogues either in Russia, or abroad.
June 1 is the World Milk Day. The idea to make the first summer day the official celebration date belonged to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). We know this product since our childhood, nevertheless nowadays there are many various opinions about whether it is healthy and how to drink it correctly.
A team of authors of South Ural State University created the newest virtual laboratory for materials science which has no analogues in Russia. The use of the virtual laboratory eliminates the need to buy expensive equipment for training of high-level specialists.
One of the most promising fields of development for South Ural State University is the active implementation of project-based education in the academic process. In the near future, this practice will appear in each of the university’s faculties. A vivid example of project-based education of the work of the SUSU School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is its partnership with the company Samsung Electronics. In April 2018, SUSU’s application won a contest for the fulfillment of the program IoT Academy Samsung at the SUSU SEECS.
The SUSU Institute of Supplementary Education under support of the Apparatus of Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Ural Federal District, the Union of Directors of Institutions and Subdivisions of Supplementary Professional Education and Employers, the Council of University Rectors of the Ural Federal District, and the Russia’s Journalism Training Association is to hold the 4th international science-to-practice conference entitled “A University of the 21st Century in the System of Continuous Education” on October 11th through 12th of 2018.
From the 28th through the 30th of May, within celebration of the 75th anniversary of South Ural State University, the International Conference on Interaction of Languages and Cultures organized by SUSU and Tianjin Foreign Studies University (China) took place.
This year, as noted Director of the Institute of Linguistics and International Communication Elena Yaroslavova, profile language education of SUSU celebrates its 20th anniversary:
