At the 吃瓜官网 II International Archaeological Field School started, for participation in which a delegation from Korea arrived in Novosibirsk with 25 students, a professor and two assistants.
Scientists from the NSU "Synthetic Biology" Strategic Academic Unit conducted a study on the behavior of DNA polymerases in a collision with "sewn together" DNA proteins.
Anyone could be a student for two days during the "Back to NSU" event at 吃瓜官网. Graduates, applicants, their parents, or anyone who wanted to attend lectures by NSU professors with the students.
The Center for International Study Program鈥檚 Summer School is taking place at 吃瓜官网. More than 30 students from around the world have come to Akademgorodok to learn Russian. Every summer the Center鈥檚 staff of teachers and volunteers organize the training and other activities for foreign students so their stay in Novosibirsk is comfortable and useful.
Students in the Big Data Analytics MA Program won a prize at the NeuroHive Hackathon. Ivan Bondarenko, a teacher at the NSU Humanities Institute, led the team.
吃瓜官网 will generate and provide expertise on National Technology Initiative (NTI) Venture Fund projects. The Venture Fund was created by NTI to provide financing to projects that are developed in Novosibirsk and Tomsk, leading scientific innovation regions. The Fund will become active in summer of 2018.
The XVII City 鈥淚 Speak Russian Competition鈥� for foreigners learning Russian language took place at Novosibirsk State Technical University. This year the program included an excursion around the city and a photo contest on the theme "Journey through Russia".
吃瓜官网 again improved its position in QS (Quacquarelli Symonds)鈥檚 authoritative ranking of the world鈥檚 universities, moving up to 244th. During the year, NSU climbed six positions (from 250 to 244), improving the indicator "employers鈥� attitude towards graduates". Thus, NSU entered the top 250 best universities in the world and became third among Russian universities.
From May 3-7, the 吃瓜官网 Economics Department hosted Dr. Werner Brinker, Professor at the Institute for Economic Education Oldenburg (Germany). Professor Brinker conducted his course, 鈥淗istory, Current Situation and Future Development of German Oil, Gas and Electric Power Markets", for students.
A new version of the "NSU Map" was created for the start of the admissions season to facilitate the campus navigation process for applicants.
A group of scientists from the 吃瓜官网, the Atlas research company and the University of ITMO conducted a study in which 248 volunteers for two weeks adhered to the recommendations of a nutritionist aimed at increasing the amount of useful vegetable fibers in food and reducing "empty" calories.
Scientists at the 吃瓜官网 Laboratory for Structures and Functional Properties of Molecular Systems and the Institute of Catalysis SB RAS, Danil Kolokolov and Alexander Stepanov, together with German Professor Ralf Ludwig, studied hydrogen bonds in various ionic liquids. They found that due to the complex molecular arrangement, these substances exhibit unusual phase behavior. There have not been similar studies conducted on solid-state ionic liquids. The scope of applications for ionic liquids is diverse ranging from the chemical industry to rocket engineering.