On January 24th the Press Center of the Arguments and Facts Newspaper organized a press conference with the participation of representatives of Chelyabinsk universities and the Regional Ministry of the Education. The meeting was devoted to a regional situation in the sphere of higher education.
The Vice Rector for Academic Affairs Andrey Shmidt and the executive secretary of the SUSU Admission Commission Aleksandr Gubarev represented SUSU.
Leading researcher Manus Patrick Henry visited South Ural State University and held a lecture on the topic “Techniques for developing signals for the new generation of intelligent sensors and measurement systems”.
In the beginning of 2016, the events of one of the biggest and most important exhibitions of Russia VUZPROMEXPO-2016, were held in Moscow.
One of the key topics was discussing the work of Russian engineering centers. The main goal of creating these centers is the advancement of innovative scientific developments in automobile and tractor building in the Russian Federation.
South Ural State University took part in VUZPROMEXPO 2016, an annual national multi-industry exhibition and forum. The event is held with support from the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Education and Science and is dedicated to demonstrating the best practices in implementing innovative developments in domestic manufacturing.
An awards ceremony will be held on December 15th at 11:30 in the SUSU Pushkin Hall to wrap up contests for the financial support of research projects among the university’s students, postgraduates, and young pedagogical staff.
On South Ural State University’s birthday, 50-thousand ruble grants will be awarded to student projects which entered the finals and won the Intellectual Breakthrough contest. 200-thousand ruble grants will be awarded to SUSU postgraduates who won the Scientific Prospects intellectual competition.
The SUSU department of foreign languages is organizing a seminar on December 19th, Introduction to English as a Medium of Instruction. The creator and moderator of the seminar is Tony Bryan, expert in the area of developing courses for teaching academic disciplines in English.
English as a medium of instruction (EMI) is a growing global trend dominating higher education. In many European countries, more than 70% of courses for graduate and postgraduate students are taught with English as the medium of instruction.
The first meeting of the Supervisory Council was held recently. The creation of the council required a change to the university’s organizational form, from a state budgetary to a state autonomous establishment.
On December 12th and 13th, specialists from the company QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) will visit SUSU. The company carries out expert analyses and annually publishes the leading ratings for the best universities in the world. As part of the execution of the Plan of Events for Realizing the Program for Increasing Competitiveness (“Road Map”), specialists from QS and SUSU will discuss various developments and the implementation of a range of measures for increasing the university’s reputation on the international stage.
South Ural State University became a participant of the 5-100 Project for Increasing the Competitiveness of Leading Russian Universities in 2015. From that moment, some broad changes began at SUSU, one of which was the creation of a University Supervisory Council. The council includes representatives of government agencies and non-governmental organizations, and leading experts and authorities in various fields.
Phillipe Bertrand, deputy director of science and innovations at the National Engineering School of Saint Etienne, read a lecture to SUSU students about laser technologies in the production of 3D-functional items.
This topic was not chosen randomly. Over the course of several years SUSU students have been attending courses for specialist training in this field.
The Interfax Russian National Rating published the results of evaluations of Russian universities’ activities in socialization and internationalization. Based on independent research, university ratings were created.
An article about children in the bronze age prepared within the walls of the SUSU Institute of Socio-Humanitarian Sciences has been included in the first quartile of the Web of Science.
The project dedicated to the creation of laboratories at SUSU under the leadership of authoritative international specialists, has reached a new level.
As part of the first meeting of the International Science Council, held at SUSU October 10th-13th, 2016, its participants chose eight candidates for head of the innovative laboratories which are planned to open at the university soon.
On the last day of the SUSU International Science Council’s program, the representative of the farthest continent – Australia – gave a lecture. Doctor Muthupandian Ashokkumar from the University of Melbourne is a physical chemist specializing in sonochemistry. He has greatly contributed to the production and materials for the food and dairy industries.
The program for the meeting of the Internatinal Science Council included a range of open lectures from leading international researchers on their topics of research. Doctor Maria Zhozefa Yuzuel (Spain) – honored professor of the University of Barcelona, member of the Royal Academies of Science and Art, the Academy of Granada, and the Royal Academy of Zaragoza. Throughout her career she has been awarded national and international awards multiple times. She was a representative and the vice president of the Spanish Optical Society.
A delegation of representatives from the SUSU International Science Council learned about the PlantWeb laboratory of artificial-intelligence based measurement systems which is a joint project between the university, the Emerson company and Metran, the leading Russian company in the development, manufacture, and service of artificial-intelligence based automation.
One of SUSU’s breakthrough areas of work in the 5-100 program is the program for developing alternative energy sources including the creation of materials for solar batteries (photosensitizers) which can increase the efficiency of solar batters and reduce costs per energy unit received. Representatives of the SUSU Institute of Natural and Hard Sciences introduced this and other areas of research to the International Science Council in their presentation of the “Materials sciences and natural sciences” block.
Open lectures by world-class scientists are continuing at SUSU. On October 11th, the president of the Emerson company Edward Monser discussed the true meaning of leadership and shared his personal experience as the head of a large corporation.
On Tuesday October 11th, doctor Mohammed Milad, member of the International Science Council and assistant professor of the Harvard Medical School department of psychology held two lectures at SUSU dedicated to fear. Where the first lecture was mostly dedicated to the nature of this phenomenon, in the second doctor Milad talked about how a person can dull this feeling with the help of medical technology.
As part of the program for the SUSU International Science Council’s meeting a new event was held: presentation of the block “Engineering Science” for the delegation of international scientists. Representatives of our university touched on a global issue and brought the delegates’ attention to the development of one of the breakthrough areas of university by the university: global asteroid safety (Aerospace Engineering Project).
On October 11th the first open lectures were held by international scientists visiting SUSU as part of an International Science Council meeting.
The marathon of lectures was opened by Mohammed Milad, assistant professor of the Harvard Medical School and director of the laboratory of behavior neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
On October 10th at South Ural State University, world-class researchers gathered to become acquainted with the university’s structure, its position in the educational system, and its prospects for future development.
The International Research Council from South Ural State University is holding its first formal meeting in Chelyabinsk October 10th through the 12th.
The International Research Council is a new structure that has been created at the University to coordinate research and educational activities in accordance with the best international practices.
Similar councils are being created at all the Universities participating in Project 5-100, which is aimed at helping Russian universties enter the top-100 worldwide before 2020.
October 10th-12th at SUSU the first meeting of the International Science Council (ISC) was held. The goal of this council is to coordinate the university’s research and academic activity with the best world practices. This is one of the most important initiatives for realization of the university’s Road Map program in the 5-100 Project.
