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How to avoid dangerous water shortages for 70 million Central Asians

Urgent need to replace competition with cooperation in the Aral Sea BasinBy Stefanos Xenarios, Iskandar Abdullaev and Vladimir SmakhtinNur-Sultan City, Kazakhstan – The water resources in Central Asia’s Aral Sea Basin support the lives and livelihoods of about 70 million people — a population greater than that of Thailand, France, or South Africa. And, unless well-funded and coordinated joint efforts are increased and competition is replaced by cooperation, ongoing over-withdrawals compounded by climate change will cause dangerous water shortages in this huge, highly complex watershed spanning six nations: Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.

Stars become closer

The team of the NU Energetic Cosmos Laboratory completed the second phase of the NUTTelA-TAO project on the remote control of the star observation telescope. To control the observatory, including telescope, dome, cameras, and other processes in real-time is now available directly from the university laboratory, 1000 km away from the observatory.

NU Day in Almaty

Within the framework of this 3-day event, the participants had the opportunity to learn about NU’s Master’s and Doctoral programs, how to apply, gain admission, student grant opportunities, about the available campus facilities and educational conditions of each program. Professors of NU held a series of lectures and master classes, and shared their discoveries in various fields such as artificial intelligence, medicine, oil engineering, business, education, economics, Eurasian Studies, and PSIR.

NU authors published a book on policy communication in Kazakhstan

The book “A Primer on Policy Communication in Kazakhstan” is written by three authors from the Graduate School of Public Policy with case studies based on Kazakhstan’s policy situations Book presentation of the “A Primer on Policy Communication in Kazakhstan” was held at NU on November 12, 2019. Basskaran Nair, a visiting professor from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, Saltanat Janenova, an assistant professor at the NU Graduate School of Public Policy and Balzhan Serikbayeva, a Ph.

Made in NU: Wireless charging for electric vehicles.

Many countries today are concerned about environmental issues, and are especially worried about pollution caused by automobile emissions. Atmospheric pollution is a growing problem for humankind, because levels of carbon dioxide and other harmful emissions continue to increase annually.

“Poet and his Muse”. The theatrical performance of NU students

On November 7, 2019, NU held a literary and theatrical evening entitled “Aqyn zhane onyg muzasy” (Poet and his Muse) dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the great poet Ilyas Zhansugurov. First and fourth-year students[1] from SSH, SEDS, and SMG presented a theatrical performance based on the famous poem “Kuishi” by Ilyas Zhansugurov and the tragedy “Khan Kene” by Mukhtar Auezov.

Open Access Week – 2019 at NU

We are celebrating the annual Open Access Week aiming to increase the interest in making scientific works, research ideas and other intellectual products freely available for anyone to use, adapt, distribute, translate and share with no or very minimal restrictions. This is not only about cost savings but about the belief that the world’s knowledge is a public good and should be accessible to all.

About radio, family, love and physics

Azel Murzabekova graduated from NU School of Science and Technology with a Bachelor’s degree in Physics in 2019. The same year she entered the Ph.

Social project Makeathon “TOM: NUR-SULTAN” started at NU

On October 25, 2019, NU holds the second stage of the IХ TOM Makeathon. At this stage, the seven teams of 35 participants meet a month after PreTOM with a completed idea and its implementation into a prototype.

Online registration to the undergraduate program at the NU without completion of the NU Foundation Year Program (Direct Admission) for the 2020-2021 academic year is open now!

First round of online registration (early admissions) to the undergraduate program at the NU without completion of the NU Foundation Year Program (Direct Admission) is open from October 21, 2019 until February 16, 2020 (inclusive). Regular admissions will be available from February 17 until April 30, 2020.

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