May 31 – Memorial Day for victims of political repression in Kazakhstan. Professor of the Department of History, Philosophy and Religious Studies, historian Mikhail Akulov gave a lecture on the memory of a difficult past for the project called “omindkz”. […]
Kazakh TV made a documentary with a 4th year student Moldir Mekenbaeva. The film is part of the full project called New Generation, and will be broadcast in 8 countries with translation into 8 languages. Moldir Mekenbaeva is a future NU graduate in mathematics, a two-time world champion in Jiu-Jitsu in the middle weight category, […]
Supporting the initiative of home-based education, the Tselinniy Center for Contemporary Culture has initiated a series of podcasts called “Around the bush”. In the first episode of the podcast, historian, assistant professor of the school of sciences and humanities Mikhail Akulov and journalist Arslan Akanov talk about what the Soviet bourgeoisie is and how it […]
Research group: Uli Schamiloglu (Professor and Chair Department of Kazakh Language and Turkic Studies, SSH), Aidyn Zhuniskhanov, Ayken Askapuli This project supports the interdisciplinary research of Professor Uli Schamiloglu into the social, economic, cultural, and environmental history of Central Eurasia in the late medieval period. Schamiloglu’s original work focused on tribal politics and social […]
The word ‘Persia’ to the Victorians was not just the name of a territorial entity but a matrix of different notions, created and crafted by a range of oral and written stories, themes and tropes. ‘Persia’ was a product of a mental vision with a long historical heritage, formed by a variety of sources, and […]
The research performed by Associate Professor of Nazarbayev University Physics Department Constantinos Valagiannopoulos in collaboration with scientists from USA, Poland and Italy. It has been picked as front cover to the Advanced Optical Material, one of the most highly-selective research journals in Material Science, current issue. It has been discovered that zinc oxide when found […]
The Tselinniy Center for Contemporary Culture conducts a series of online lectures from leading experts in Kazakhstan and other countries created under quarantine. The first invited guest was Alima Bisenova, an assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at the School of Sciences and Humanities. In a short lecture course “Ethnography of the Kazakh steppe of […]
Recent DDCA: Khiva, Uzbekistan, 2015, http://ddays2.sci.uz/, Nazarbayev University 2016, Bukhara, 2017, Uzbekistan, http://www.ddaysca4.las.uz/, The focus of these conferences is to present and discuss newly emerged issues in the science of complex nonlinear systems and their future prospects. In the past decades the science of Complexity has dealt with various fields of natural and social sciences […]
Dear applicants of the undergraduate programs! We inform you that in connection with the cancellation of international standardized tests due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, the Admissions Committee of Nazarbayev University decided the following within the competition for the 2020-2021 academic year: 1) to conduct ALEKS PPL test for applicants who are not able to […]
Due to unforeseen circumstances as a result of COVID-19 Coronavirus Infection Pandemic and in response to the temporary closings of testing centers, within the competition for the 2020-2021 academic year Nazarbayev University decided to consider candidates for graduate programs who are not able to provide IELTS/TOEFL with minimum passing score based on Duolingo English Test […]
