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The online lecture “Smart Sustainable Cities” took place as part of the cooperation between NU and the Embassy of the Netherlands in early April. NU students had the opportunity to listen to a talk by senior researcher on energy efficiency and lecturer on renewable energy, Dr.

Today we will be talking with Professor Uli Schamiloglu, Chair of the Department of Kazakh language and Turkic studies at NU. The professor told us why he moved to Kazakhstan, how and when he got acquainted with the Kazakh language, and what, in his opinion, prevents Kazakhstanis from mastering the state language.

‘Creation of a 3D map of underground utilities of the urban area”, – a joint project lead by the “KazAeroSpace” Technopark resident and Professor Peyman Purafshari of the School of Mining and Geosciences, won a grant from the Office of Commercialization of NU. According to the project developers, this development will solve one of the main problems of the urban infrastructure: the uncertainty of the exact location of the underground networks.

NU researchers started their psoriasis drug testing in Nur-Sultan. The medication developed by NU scientists with the support of the NU Commercialization Office, is now being administered to volunteers.

NU students won the Samruk Hackathon 2021 international competition. Young programmers and software developers competed in designing solutions for Samruk-Kazyna portfolio companies’ IT problems.

The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society of Oxford University Press has published an article written by researchers from the Department of Physics at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. The publication – “Impact of rotation on the evolution of convective vortices in collapsing stars” was written by NU Associate Professor Yernazar Abdikamarov, French astrophysicist, Professor Thierry Foglizzo and Olzhas Mukazhanov, 4th year NU physics student.

NU community celebrated one of the most anticipated spring holidays – Nauryz meyrami. For the first time in the history of the university, all the festive events were conducted online.

NU signed a memorandum of cooperation with the leading Qatari higher education institution – Hamad bin Khalifa University. The negotiations started in support of the development of educational and cultural ties between the two countries through the Inter-Governmental Committee back in 2020.

Central Asian scholars can receive up to £30,000 in research grants from the PEER Network organization. This international academic network unites 4 leading universities from Kazakhstan (NU), South Africa (Cape Town University), England (University of Sussex) and Northern Ireland (University of Ulster).

NU Career and Advising Center (NU CAC) has participated in a study on “International Trends and Innovation in Career Guidance” in the context of rapid changing labor markets and the future of work conducted by European Training Foundation (ETF). The ETF study highlighted the key role and ever-increasing importance of career guidance and how it responded to new challenges with innovative approaches in the EU, partner countries and internationally.