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On 17 and 18 of May, 2018, within the framework of Astana Economic Forum “Global Challenges Summit 2018” (AEF), NU hosted a series of meetings with key speakers from the AEF event. Students, teachers, and staff had an opportunity to attend 16 public lectures given by well-known experts and entrepreneurs: the founder of Shazam – Chris Barton, the famous film director – Krzysztof Zanussi, the gerontologist and mathematician – Aubrey de Gray, and many others.

On April 26, 2018, Professor İlber Ortaylı gave a lecture on “The Turkic World and Current Issues in Turkology”. During the talk, which was organized jointly with the Yunus Emre Center (Astana) and the Department of Kazakh Language and Turkic Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, participants discussed: the importance of studying ancient history and philology, developments in the 19th century for understanding the current situation, studying literature for having a deeper command of modern Turkic languages including Kazakh, as well as the importance of more modern genrese of cultural production such as theater and film.

On April 5, 2018 at NU in the framework of celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Astana was held literary and musical evening “Zhyr-Semser, Kui-Kudiret, Olen-Ornek”. This event was dedicated to poet-zhyrau Makhambet Utemisuly, great composer Kurmangazy Sagyrbauly, and poetess Fariza Ongarsynova.

On Saturday, April 7th, 2018, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS), held its first annual undergraduate capstone conference. The conference was a culmination of a year-long capstone course that has allowed ten graduating fourth-year SHSS students majoring in either Anthropology or Sociology to conduct original research and present their findings to members of the department, the SHSS community and the larger community of Astana, Kazakhstan.

Asian Universities Alliance’s (AUA) Board Meeting was held on April 9th in Sanya, China. Senior officials from 15 founding member institutions of the Alliance participated in the meeting, including Mr.

On April 10, 2018, NU Library welcomed the event “Let the fairy tale live ” dedicated to the International Children’s Book Day for 20 children from “Children’s home № 1 for orphans and children left without parental care from Akkol city”, and 20 children from low-income families from Astana. As part of the holiday, children actively participated in games, guessed crossword puzzles, showed the scene “Little Red Riding Hood” in English, and each child received a book as a gift.

NU School of Medicine (NUSOM) is delighted to invite you to its OpenHouse Day!This is an exclusive opportunity for prospective students to get to know NUSOM, its academic community and learn more about available programs and facilities. The program includes a presentation from the Dean, hourly tours of the NUSOM building and state-of-the-art facilities for education and research, and the opportunity to meet with program directors, faculty members, staff and current students.

On April 4, 2018, Professor Zhaxybay Zhumadilov was appointed as Chairman of the Board of the Corporate fund “University Medical Center”. Prior to his appointment, Professor Z.

Academics from the UK and Kazakhstan had worked together to discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with the transition to the mandatory social health insurance in Kazakhstan at the workshop in March 26-27, 2018 in Astana at NU. In 2015, a group of researchers from the London School of Economics (LSE) and NU received a Newton Fund Institutional Links Programme research grant from the British Council for the project titled “Macroeconomic Effects of the Health Policy Reform in Kazakhstan”.

After months of hard work on a unique ultra-energy-efficient car in the Technopark NU, “NU Team” tested their car at one of the most prestigious student competitions in the world. The car was designed and assembled by the students of three NU Schools: School of Engineering, School of Science and Technology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences.