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January 22-23, 2018 the NU Library conducts a training seminar on “Media and Information Literacy” together with the International Journalism Center MediaNet and IREX Europe with the support of the British Embassy in Kazakhstan, as well as the Association of Libraries of Universities of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The aim of the seminar is to increase the awareness of librarians about information and media literacy, its promotion in libraries and library users’ communities; increase knowledge of the media, Internet security; training in critical thinking skills and media content analysis to further transfer the acquired knowledge and skills to colleagues.

We are happy to share the great news: six out of ten winners of the 2018 Research Internships in World Laboratories competition, sponsored by the S. YessenovFoundation, are students of NU…and all of them are the students of the School of Science and Technology! The 2018 Research Internships program aims to identify, select, and support ten talented students from Kazakhstan interested in research and science.

In 2017, NU students became winners of various national as well as international sport events. Men’s football team won the first place in FFA Astana Students’ League and took part in the Silk Way International Football Cup in Hannot city, China, and Women’s football team won the third place in the Astana Universiade Futsal Tournament.

On January 9th, 2018, a group of active students from NU School of Science and Technology (SST) has been accredited by the American Chemical Society as an International Student Chapter. – Just a year ago, we started collecting all necessary documents for the Chapter initiation.

On December 1st, 2017 the President of Kazakhstan met the winners of the Republican project “100 new faces”. Among the winners was Zarina Sautbayeva, the junior researcher and instructor of School of Science and Technology, NU.

On November 4-5, 2017 NU held the 2nd NU Alumni Reunion. This year Alumni Reunion was represented by a 2-day weekend program (Official part and Sport Festival).

On the 27th of October, 2017 the President of NU Mr. Shigeo Katsu sealed a label onto the first batch of the medical device HeartStitch KwiKnotTM that was assembled by the “Educated Medical Solutions” LLP team at the NU Technopark site.