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Today our interview is with Bakhytzhan Baptayev, a graduate of the School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, who this year successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in the “Science, Engineering and Technology / Materials Science and Engineering” program. What is the subject of your dissertation?My PhD research focused on a type of 3rd generation solar cells.

A group of researchers from the Graduate School of Public Policy: Stefanos Xenarios, Ronan Shenhav, Iskandar Abdullaev, and Alberto Mastellari, reviewed water security in Central Asia. The subject of their research was the issues of transboundary water resources in Central Asia, problems of water resources management, and climate change in the region.

Since its opening NU has taken a course towards the development of green technologies. The University cultivates respect for the environment and promotes an environmental agenda.

The NU (NU) community has been actively involved in the fight against the spread of COVID-19 since the very beginning of the virus’ entrance into the country. NU contributes to fighting the pandemic by means of its professors’ expertise, campus infrastructure, and by providing material, technical and management support.

Comics have been a part of our lives for a while now. Sometimes they can even change the way we think and behave.

Investment in Knowledge Pays the Best Interest, Benjamin Franklin once said. Are Industry conferences and corporate executive education interventions effective? Is there any value of meetings and events in terms of being applied to benefit the organization? And to what extent?Professor DiVanna teaches courses in Finance and Banking at NU Graduate School of Business, and also in Cambridge University.

This year NU is celebrating its first major anniversary: ​​10-year jubilee!It’s a great opportunity to look back on the goals achieved, missions completed, explore new possibilities and plan future steps to take. What are the main outcomes after these 10 years? – questions many people pose right now.

Dear Nursultan Abishevich!Kazakhstani society faces an invisible enemy – the coronavirus epidemic, which, unfortunately, has not bypassed you, as well as many thousands of Kazakhstanis. On behalf of all students and graduates of NU, we wish you and all those sick a speedy recovery and hope that our support will help raise your spirit in the fight against this ailment!Exactly 10 years ago, on your initiative, the doors of our University were opened, and during this time the University became the flagship of the national higher education system, striving to compete on equal terms with the leading universities of the world.

This spring, for the first time in the history of NU, several doctoral students of the University defended their theses in a new online mode. One of those who successfully defended his scientific work was Talgat Manglayev, a student of the PhD program in Science, Engineering and Technology at the School of Engineering and Digital Sciences.

On June 14, 2020, NU hosted a virtual Graduation ceremony. The 2020 Ceremony is special as this year NU celebrates its tenth anniversary and for the first time due to the COVID-19 pandemic the Ceremony was digital.