On March 14th, Spring at SUSU 2018 Student Creativity Festival will start at South Ural State University. The festival is being held within the framework of Youth of Chelyabinsk Program, and Russian Student Spring Program for Support and Development of Student Creativity in order to support creative activities of students of our city.
Spring at SUSU 2018 Festival is one of the stages of Student Spring 2018 Festival. The next stage will be held at a city level in April.
SUSU students and teaching staff participated in themed events aimed at forming corporate culture among students and staff of the Polytechnic Institute.
The “Five Elements” quest opened the Week’s events. This name choice is not an accidental one: each station represented one of the 5 faculties of the Institute, and by completing all of the tests, the teams had to build their “rockets” and prepare them for launch.
On March 14 of 2018, an award ceremony of medal winners of the first professional Olympiad of students entitled “I am the Professional”, which is a part of the project platform entitled “Russia is the country of possibilities”, was held on the venue of the Russia is the Country of Possibilities Forum at the VDNH.
SUSU’s Office of Academic Writing opened an admission to courses of English language improvement for successful preparation of scientific publications in the following areas:
English language: introduction course of article writing;
English language: fundamentals of academic literacy. Grammar and vocabulary;
The team of SUSU-TV television and radio company and the SUSU Marketing and Strategic Communications Department named Bez Suflera (Without a Souffleur) won a cup of the first in Chelyabinsk’s history Brainfight among mass media.
The venue gathered representatives of television and radio broadcasting, printed and Internet editions and photographers competing in an intellectual fight. According to the game rules, the team which obtains more points by the results of the whole game, becomes the winner.
Innovative researchers from Khimki, near Moscow, have thought up how to look inside matter “with the help of a finger”. This is exactly the thing: on their mobile phones users can simply indicate their “point of research”, and the electronic device will analyze it on atomic level!
March 16 is the World Sleep Day. On this day, conferences and symposiums dedicated to the increase of awareness about the importance of sleep, problems of sleep, and the influence of diseases connected with sleep disorders on the health of people and the society in general are organized. At SUSU, the topic of sleep is studied within the study of stress carried out in School of Medical Biology.
On March 20th Ascension to Parnassus Poetry Contest will be held at South Ural State University.
Student Parnassus Literature Association was created at the SUSU Creativity Center in 1998. It is headed by Lidia Kuleshova, member of the Union of Writers of Russia. At the same time with the Club’s establishing an idea of the Ascension to Parnassus festival came to mind to popularize and support creative development of student young poets.
On March 14th a meeting with Deputy Chairperson of the Federation Council Committee for Agriculture-and-Food Policy and Use of Natural Resource Irina Gekht was held at South Ural State University.
Social and agricultural policies became the topic of the meeting. Changing priorities in social support with consideration to targeting and needs was discussed.
March 18th through 23rd, during the Ecology Week event, SUSU students will be able to learn everything about the importance of separate collection of waste, hand over items they don’t need for recycling, visit a free market, and create items from recyclable materials at one of the master classes.
Gazprom-Media Entertainment TV company announces the launch of their first hackathon, in which they are searching for projects with ready-made solutions, as well as for young developers and analysts who have ideas on creating new algorithms for data processing. The Hackathon will be held in Moscow, April 7th-8th.
Gazprom-Media Entertainment TV is part of Gazprom-Media Holding and owns the channels TNT, TV-3, Pyatnitsa!, TNT4, 2x2, and Comedy Club Production and Good Story Media producing companies.
The issue of using human- and environment-friendly technologies is a topical one throughout the world. One of the most contemporary methods of environment cleaning is photocatalysis. A scientist from South Ural State University Igor Krivtsov collaborating with Spanish University of Oviedo is successfully working on creating an innovative photocatalyst.
Today on the market of pipeline fittings a significant segment is occupied by flanges used for connection of pipes. Despite the fact that Russian companies are leaders of this market, they often use outdated technologies. The scientists from South Ural State University are working on expanding technological possibilities of processes of hot die forging to make them more cost-effective.
International Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th. This unofficial holiday was thought up by physicist Larry Shaw in 1987. He noted that in the American system of dates, in which the month is written before the day, the date of March 14th – 3/14 – matches the first numbers of π – 3.14. The SUSU Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics prepared an internet quest dedicated to this holiday.
Academic Readings: Fundamental Sciences and Clinical Medicine all-Russian scienсe-to-practice conference for young researchers and specialists in various fields of science and medicine will be held in Chelyabinsk. This is a large space for the exchanging experience and gaining new knowledge and contacts for the whole scientific community.
Student of the SUSU Institute of Sport, Tourism and ServiceAnton Bulaev became the winner of a gold medal in the team event at the First Stage of the Asia Cup on archery.
Anton is a first-year student at ISTS under Physical Culture program. He has been training in archery for 10 years already and has earned many honourable awards over this time.
Healthy lifestyle is not just a complex of healthful habits and exercising. Healthy nutrition requires special attention as well, think researchers of South Ural State University. Precisely in this area, a series of the most prospective research projects are implemented nowadays.
On February 6th the final round of the 5th All-Russian Winter Universiade 2018 completed in Nizhni Tagil. As a result of the competition SUSU team took the 2nd place in the team scoring in orienteering. The team’s coach is Associate Professor at the Department of Self-perfection in Sports of the Institute of Sport, Tourism and ServiceElena Savinykh.
The Head of the legendary SUSU’s Ballroom Dancing Group celebrates her anniversary.
Tatiana Zenina is an Honoured Cultural Worker of the Russian Federation. Tatiana Aleksandrovna has received many reputable awards, which are only given to those who are true professionals in what they do. For 18 years she has been the Head of the SUSU’s Ballroom Dancing Group established in 2000.
From the 12th till the 18th of March, a week dedicated to the Polytechnic Institute is to be held at South Ural State University; within the week, students and teachers will take part in theme-related events targeted at formation of corporate culture of SUSU Polytechnic Institute’s students and staff.
Events of the Week of Polytechnic Institute
On March 13, deans will have meetings with group activists
South Ural State University is successfully supporting gifted students. All winners of the On to Discoveries contest held at SUSU under Project 5-100 earned grants for completion of their research projects. One of those winners was Andrey Efremov, a student of the SUSU Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
Every year, every second Sunday of March a Day of the Workers of Geodesy and Cartography is celebrated in Russia. In SUSU this holiday is celebrated by the employees of Geoinformation Systems Research and Education Center.
The Center deals with creating and filling geoinformation systems: processing of satellite images, creating of orthophotomaps, cartographical materials and digital terrain models.
On March 10th a special event will be held at South Ural State University on the occasion of the 65th Anniversary of the Honoured Cultural Worker of the Russian Federation Tatiana Zenina.
