The Laboratory for studying ontology and epistemology of rationality, which is about to appear at the Philosophy Department, plans to study the rational basis of scientific knowledge and social activities.
Researchers from NSU and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS, who excavated the Strashnaya Cave in the Altai region, Russia, during the 2015 field season, found some anthropological materials (calcius) referring to the period of 35-50 thousand years ago.
NSU graduates Vitaly Drozdov (Department of Information Technology) and Sergey Ermolaev (Physics Department) have developed a software application for parents to control their children’s mobile devices. The project Smelophone is aimed at cutting the time spent by the teens playing games online and motivating them to do their homework and some housework.
Two NSU students, Marina Rakhmanova from the Natural Sciences Department and a graduate of the Economics Department, Anna Isakova, are busy developing a portable device for personalized diagnostics. It will quickly measure the level of female hormones to a nicety and predict the time of ovulation.
Students from École internationale des sciences du traitement de l'information (EISTI) and ParisTech (France) came to NSU on a student exchange program between Russian and France universities.