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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.

From June 2nd to 5th, an international online conference was organized and hosted by NU, Nur- Sultan, Kazakhstan. During the conference, new results were discussed in the areas of dynamical systems, nonlinear dynamics, chaos, and more broadly, complexity science.

What is academic honesty? Is it important in school and university education? Why is it necessary to maintain high standards of academic integrity?Academic integrity is upholding the principles of truthfulness, trust, respect, fairness, and finally, responsibility. It is necessary to adhere to these principles even when no one is watching and controlling.

COVID-19 pandemic is the biggest challenge the world is facing nowadays. It has already affected all spheres of human activity.

Our next guest is Leila Tlebaldiyeva, who completed her doctoral studies in Science, Engineering and Technology at the NU School of Engineering and Digital Sciences. She successfully defended her doctoral thesis in April this year.

This year marks one decade since the establishment of NU – an initiative of the First President of Kazakhstan N. Nazarbayev.

Scientists from the National Laboratory of Astana NU are planning to study the DNA of individuals who have had COVID-19 in Kazakhstan. Currently, protocols for biomaterial intake are being developed and blood collection in hospitals has been started.

Our interviewee is Abdikenov Beibit Bolatgazyevich, who defended his PhD at the School of Engineering and Digital Sciences in Data Science. Currently, Beibit is a co-founder and director of the ReLive group of companies.

How does startupper overcome a crisis? Are there any positive aspects and how to find them? What does s/he need to do? How to get rid of the constant anxiety and fatigue of uncertainty?In our next article of the series “Quarantine mode” Bolat Sultangazin, the Head of Business Accelerator PI “NURIS” shares his useful tips. – There is an old motivational story about the word “crisis”, which became popular thanks to John Kennedy.

Starting on April 6, all educational institutions switched to distance learning and with this change mandatory program components such as theses defences needed to adapt. Related to this, NU organized an online doctoral dissertation defences.