On February 14th, the SUSU Sociocultural Adaptation Centre offered interactive games for international students at the Sigma academic building. The event was dedicated to Valentine’s Day.
Preparations for the event began in the beginning of February: volunteers of the Sociocultural Adaptation Centre prepared blank valentines to be sent and a mailbox. The organizers also made a big, beautiful sign, where students could profess their love.
The annual student wedding was held at South Ural State University. Dozens of SUSU student couples participated in contests and held weddings in the improvised ZAGS (Civil Registry Office).
This event dedicated to Valentine’s Day was held for the fifth time. The main station was “registration”. At this station, a couple gets married, with putting on the rings and a veil, and after that the newlyweds take photos.
Times Higher Education (THE) international ranking agency has published the results of the THE Emerging Economies Rankings 2020. SUSU has become included in this ranking for the first time.
South Ural State University hosted Kaspersky CyberDay Conference. Kaspersky Lab international company and the SUSU School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science organized the conference.
South Ural State University celebrated Student Teams Day, in the framework of which the Rector met the SUSU student active core, and a new art object and recreation area were introduced.
SUSU student teams have always been among the best in our country. They have acted as an excellent launching site for the self-realization of future professionals. Nowadays when the student team movement is actively developing, the trend of being a person, who knows how to work, has once again become popular.
Scientists from South Ural State University jointly with Chelyabinsk State University are creating a new technology of structural material with unique properties based on aluminium alloys. The research aim is obtaining a light alloy with high strength, which will allow using it in aviation and the rocket and space industry.
A concert dedicated to Defender of the Fatherland Day will be held in the South Ural State University Assembly Hall on February 20th. On that day, congratulations will be addressed to all of the men of our university.
The Defender of the Fatherland Day has become an annual date when students and staff from SUSU hold an event in memory of the defenders of our nation.
On February 6, 2020 President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin set a simplified procedure of employment for foreign citizens and for persons without citizenship, who are studying full-time in professional educational institutions. Specialists of the Institute of Law of South Ural State University analysed how this law will influence the life of our university’s international students.
The opening ceremony of the 11th Championship in Project Management among 10th-11th-form pupils within the Chelyabinsk Region Governor’s PMCup was held in the beginning of February 2020.
On that day, the SUSU Sigma auditorium gladly hosted teachers and upperclassmen of schools from Chelyabinsk and the Chelyabinsk Region. As per tradition, the geography of the participants spanned the whole region: Chelyabinsk, Miass, Zlatoust, Karabash, Kyshtym, Ozyorsk, Snezhinsk, Tryokhgorny, Kopeysk, Magnitogorsk, and other cities.
The phrase “Think globally, act locally!” has been a moto of the GAIDPARK Winter Discussion School of the Yegor Gaidar Foundation, in which Nikita Volkov, a 2nd-year Master’s student of the Department of Social Studies of the Institute of Media, Social Sciences and Humanities, took part. At the discussion school in Saint Petersburg Nikita represented not only South Ural State University, but also the city of Chelyabinsk.
Scientists from South Ural State University are creating a new material with targeted properties. It could be used for production of microwave elements in electronics, as well as for data transmission, and protection against wave action at high frequencies.
The research results have been published in Journal of Alloys and Compounds, indexed in Scopus and Web of Science databases. The research studies hexagonal ferrites, the current demand for which is mostly related to using them in microwave elements in electronics.
All-Russian Kickboxing Tournament Moscow Open was held in the Moscow Region (Ershovo settlement). Over 800 sportsmen from 31 Russian regions took part in the competitions. One of the participants was a student of the Institute of Sport, Tourism and Service of South Ural State University.
The participants of the tournament competed in three disciplines: “point fighting”, “light contact” and “solo compositions”. A student of the SUSU Institute of Sport, Tourism and Service Kirill Vorobiev became the best three times:
The Dance Festival of Student Teams will be held at SUSU for the 13th time. Students will perform in the categories of contemporary, street and pop dance and will compete for the winning places.
The event is to take place before the Russian Student Union Day celebration. The students will dance on the university’s stage on February 16th. This year, the main topic of the event is “Russian Student Union BOOM: Style. Labour. Hype”. The participants want to show the audience that it is both interesting, fun and fancy to be a part of the Russian Student Union.
Tatiana Stroganova, Head of the Press Office of South Ural State University, member of the board of the Union of Journalists of the Chelyabinsk Region, received a journalistic “Oscar” for articles in Russian media that popularize science.
The ceremony of honouring the laureates of the highest award in journalism of the Russian Federation called the Golden Pen of Russia Award took place in Moscow at the Novaia Opera theatre as part of the 28th press ball. The prize has been awarded since 1996. Many prominent journalists received it from then on.
Starting from February 7, 2020 applications for participation in the SUSU PostDoc-2020 contest are being accepted. SUSU PostDoc is a program for supporting the university’s research activity by attracting staff members. The program is being fulfilled through the scientific research being conducted by young scientists (postdocs) with the advisory assistance of our university’s scientists.
The Faculty of Journalism of Lomonosov Moscow State University held the International Science-to-practice Conference on Journalism in 2019: Creativity, Profession, and Industry, which addresses modern issues of theory and practice of journalism.
Every year, February 8th, the scientific community of the Russian Federation celebrates its professional holiday, approved by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation: the Russian Science Day. Being one of the flagships of the development of science in Russia, South Ural State University fulfils the development strategy within the framework of digital industry, materials science and ecology, what meets the global research trends.
The Global Game Jam, a video game development competition, was held at the SUSU School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science January 31st through February 1st. The major worldwide contest was organized at SUSU for the seventh time already.
Participating in the Global Game Jam is the best way to start designing games, meet some like-minded people, and fulfil your experimental ideas. This year, South Ural State University has gathered more than 100 participants, 44 of whom are SUSU students.
South Ural State University provides young scientists with a unique possibility to fulfil their scientific potential. Students are actively participating in various contests, and one of these is UMNIK program. In 2019, the contest’s prize-winner was a 1st-year postgraduate student of the SUSU Institute of Engineering and Technology Mikhail Shalashov, who suggested a unique design of a spacecraft propulsion system.
Dear colleagues, postgraduates and students! I heartily congratulate you on the Day of Russian Science! This professional holiday is annually celebrated by representatives of the scientific community of our country.
Scientists at our university have been making their contribution to the storehouse of science for 76 years now. Over the years of formation and development, our university has acquired the status of one of the leading universities in Russia, the centre of science and innovation.
On February 1, the final stage of the Zvezda (Star) Multidisciplinary Engineering Olympiad, one of the most broad-scale school Olympiads in the Russian Federation, started at South Ural State University. The event takes place at 85 venues in our country.
SUSU is the main coordinator of the Olympiad along with the Russian Engineering Union, and 68 leading Russian universities are co-organizers. The winner’s or prize-winner's certificate of the Olympiad allows the applicant to receive benefits when entering almost any university.
At the end of April, a boxing competition was held as part of the Student Games for Higher Education Institutions at Ural State University of Physical Education (UralGUFK). At one of the most popular competitions, more than 50 athletes from Rank 3 to Master of Sport of Russia entered to compete.
This year the SUSU Children’s Online University Educational Centre has celebrated its second anniversary. Since 2018, the project has been promoting scientific fields of the university and research and development creativity for children. The project has no age restrictions; any schoolchild of the 1st through 11th form can participate in the project and take electronic courses.
On February 3, South Ural State University hosted the meeting on the Smart City project implementation in the city of Chelyabinsk. The SUSU staff and representatives of the city business community took part in the event.
The Chairman of the Chelyabinsk City Duma Andrei Shmidt offered a welcoming speech to the participants of the meeting. He spoke about the events to promote “Chelyabinsk, a Smart City” project.
The women’s badminton championship and billiard tournament were organized by international students of South Ural State University with the support of the South Ural Association of International Students (AIS).
Throughout the year, the AIS is holding a number of events, aimed at creative, cultural and sports development of international students who came to Russia to gain higher education. Each time they are trying to somehow enrich these events, so the lives of international students will be more event-packed.