The forum on new media culture Med will be held in Chelyabinsk from August 26th through 28th. Tatiana Mingalimova, editor of the vDud project and author of the Nezhnyi Redaktor; Irina Chesnokova, creator of the Bar in the Big City show and film and television actress; Artur Sokolov, head of the video production company Russia Today; Taras Sychev, head editor of Lentacha; and representatives of MSU, FederalPress RIA, and others will come to Chelyabinsk to share their knowledge and experience.

On the 8th of August, the International Alpinism Day is celebrated all over the world. Students of South Ural State University have the opportunity to exercise this sport without leaving the campus – on the climbing wall at the Institute of Sport, Tourism and Service.

September 5th through September 12th Chelyabinsk will be welcoming Predchustvie international film festival for the second time. Last Friday, the organizers shared on the major projects of the forthcoming big-scale cultural event.

The number of enrollees is a proof to the fact that SUSU is rightfully placed as one of the best in various rankings of the country and the world. At that, the major part of those getting enrolled has high EGE points. Enrollees told us of what made them choose South Ural State University.

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Scientists of South Ural State University are studying enzymes that can break down stress hormones. They are also finding a way to regulate the activity of these enzymes. It will help to cure diseases caused by stress. It is a joint research between SUSU and the Institute of Molecular Physiology and Genetics, and the Institute of Experimental Endocrinology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (Slovakia, Bratislava). The primary results of the study were published in one of the most widespread scientific publications among stress experts the journal Stress.

South Ural State University actively cooperates with the major employers in our region. Leading companies and enterprises work with the university in the training of specialists. Many students can get acquainted with a particular company through practical training and internships. Special opportunities in this regard are provided by the Department of Cars and Car-Caring Service of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, which was formed at Reginas automobile complex.

South Ural State University extends the possibilities of cooperation with the Republic of Uzbekistan. One of the leading technical higher education institutions of the Republic – the Namangan Engineering-Construction Institute – opens its own faculty of SUSU.

Lecturer from the Law Institute of SUSU took part in the Summer Law School “Transnational Tort Litigation: Jurisdiction and Remedies”, July 15-19th in Ravenna, Italy. The Summer Law School is a traditional annual event held in the Faculty of Law of the University of Bologna – one of the oldest universities in the world.

During the week, participants examined relevant issues of dealing with civil disputes with a foreign element under the guidance of reputable scientists and practitioners from the USA, Italy, Spain, Lithuania and the UK

Students of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at South Ural State University are undertaking internship at one of the largest companies working in the sphere of electronics and metrology.

ElMetro Group Company specializes in development of devices for the industry, particularly the control and measurement equipment: flowmeters, measurement of the level, pressure, temperature, etc., - everything that is needed for power engineering, oil and gas industry, and chemistry.

Within the university’s admissions campaign, SUSU ISSH’s Department of Journalism and Mass Communication arranged a meeting between enrollees and a representative of the advertising and PR market of Chelyabinsk, Head of the Advertising Department at Pervoe Vystavochnoe Obyedineniye (first Exhibition Association) LLC, Maria Gerdler, who introduced son-to-be students with professional peculiarities of specialists in the sphere of integrated communications.

Nowadays, composite materials are becoming more and more popular. One of the primary composite materials for modern structures is glass fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP), which is commonly used in aviation, modern transport, wind power plants, etc. Scientists of South Ural State University carried out extensive studies in order to research ballistic properties of this composite material, which is to allow improving the efficiency of its use in the future.

Students of the Faculty of Energy and Power Engineering at South Ural State University obtained grants for studying abroad in the frameworks of academic mobility programmes. Now they are to study in China, Slovakia, Hungary and Germany.

European Congress of Psychology took place in Moscow. For the first time in history, the Congress, which was the 16th, was held in our country. This massive and important for the world’s whole psychological community event was arranged by the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations and the Russian Psychological Society and held at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

For the first time in Russia, scientists from South Ural State University conducted an integrated experiment using the ECG T-shirt, which proved the possibility to perform simultaneous heart monitoring for several constantly moving people from any point on the planet. This will allow doctors to perform distance monitoring of patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases, as well as improve the system of athletes’ training.

The programme of Island 10-22 is coming to its end; however, the work pace still remains intensive. In the second half of the workshop, members of the SUSU team took part in operation of such laboratories as Architecture of Entrepreneurial Activity at a University; Advanced Training of Cadres; Industrial projects on data management; Digital transformation of a university, and many other. Besides, all members of the SUSU team took part in a joint project work on implementation of the university’s digital model.

Students and lecturers from the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication of the Faculty of Journalism at SUSU ISSH have successfully completed their study at the International Summer Academy of Mass Media at the Aristotle University in the city of Thessaloniki (Greece). International Summer Academy of Mass Media is an educational forum designated to study new tendencies in mass media and journalism. This year, Thessaloniki brought together 42 attendees from Italy, Russia, Germany, USA, China and Turkey.