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On the 10th of January, elections to the Mazhilis and Maslikhats were held in Kazakhstan. We are pleased to inform you that two NU alumni were elected as deputies to the Mazhilis of the Parliament and Maslikhat of Almaty city.

The full-sized skeleton of an ichthyosaur, found by school children in the West Kazakhstan region, will be assembled and installed in the School of Mining and Geosciences, NU, in 2021. The large-scale reconstruction project will be overseen by Laurent Richard, Associate Professor of Geology at NU, Davit Vasilyan, paleontologist from the Swiss Jurassica Museum, and SMG students.

Aidyn Zhuniskhanov, Teaching Assistant in the School of Sciences and Humanities, participated in the preparation of the 4th volume of the encyclopedia “Sacred Kazakhstan”. The Sacred Kazakhstan project is an encyclopedic work in five volumes.

Denis de Crombrugghe, NU Graduate School of Business (GSB) professor, together with his colleagues from the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, have published his research on economic slumps as sequences of structural breaks in the World Bank Economic Review. The researchers have studied the scientific literature on economic growth and recession and found out that more attention was paid to the beginning of growth onset and growth acceleration, rather than to the onset of declines or the duration of contractions.

We continue our series of interviews with NU PhD students, this time we will talk to our international researchers. Today’s interviewee is Kayode Olaifa, NU School of Engineering and Digital Sciences PhD candidate.

The article of a second-year graduate physics student Tilek Zhumabek “Capturing light by arbitrarily thin cavities” was published in the Physical Review Research journal, published by the American Physical Society since 1893. In the article, the author, together with Professor Valagiannopoulos, theoretically investigates the absorption of light by artificial materials structured in nanometer scale.

The consequences of climate change were discussed at the “Climate Talks” conference organized by NU Green Campus, UNDP, and corporate foundation “National Conservation Initiative”. More than 100 people from various countries participated in the conference, with ecologists, representatives of state bodies and NGOs, NU students and professors among them.

NU and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Kazakhstan held their first joint meeting on gender equality and harassment. During the online roundtable, the parties discussed an action plan for creation of equal opportunities and safe work, learning and social space.

NU researchers, Professor Naureen Durrani (Graduate School of Education) and Dr. Helene Thibault (School of Sciences and Humanities) have won a prestigious and highly competitive grant in collaboration with three international universities.

Stefanos Xenarios, Associate Professor of the NU Graduate School of Public Policy, has been doing research on water management issues in Kazakhstan for more than five years. He commented on the current state of the industry and told how to improve management issues.