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The science field is actively developing in Kazakhstan, and the Young Research Alliance (YRA), which contains more than 340 enthusiastic researchers from different cities and countries plays a key role in that. One of the YRA founders, Beibit Abdikenov, shared that it is a voluntary, self-governing, non-profit public union, designed to develop proposals for government agencies on science development through scientific approaches.

German historian Robert Kindler published the book titled “Stalin’s Nomads. ” This scientific monograph is based on real historical data about the causes and consequences of the famine in the Kazakh steppe in the 1920-30s.

Before coming to NU, she lectured at Oxford and Exeter Universities. She has witnessed the university and Astana, which has become a second home for her, undergo significant development.

The project aims to create zero tolerance for harassment in the academic environment. Students Adiya Akhmer, Nikita Durnev, Nurshat Kaldybaeva and Assistant Professor at the School of Sciences and Humanities Dinara Pissareva spoke The Village about the importance of the campaign, how it went, as well as gender inequality in Kazakhstan overall.

The Khabar24 TV channel made an episode about NU Professor Caress Schenk for a program where they speak to foreign nationals who have found a home in Kazakhstan. Joining the Department of Political Science and International Relations in 2011, she specializes in comparative political science, national identity issues, immigration control, and Eurasian politics.

Kathiresan Sivakumar, a Mathematics PhD candidate at NU, relocated from Coimbatore, India, where he served as an assistant professor at Rathinam College of Arts and Science for 1. 5 years.

Amina Chaia, a researcher at NU’s Sustainable Development Solutions Network (NU SDSN), in her article for The Astana Times, describes the urban and climate challenges faced by cities like Astana in our region today. Against the backdrop of the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, Chaia emphasizes the importance of climate-resilient governance strategies, grounded in threshold, coping, recovery, adaptive, and transformative capacities.

NU students took part in the Q-bilim program on the Khabar 24 TV channel, where they spoke about their invention. The drone detects the fire using a database of thousands of pictures of fire in different weather conditions and then sends the signal to a ground station.