On August 6, the final of the SynBio Challenge international competition was held in Shenzhen Guangdong Province, China. The NSU Natural Sciences Department (NSD)Team, GeneMeow, won the gold medal in the "Synthetic Cell" category.
The results of the Russian Science Foundation mega-grant competition for fundamental scientific research and exploratory scientific research under the supervision of leading foreign scientists have been announced. Among the winners is a project submitted by scientists from the NSU Laboratory of Nonlinear Optics of Waveguide Systems, "The Kerr Self-Cleaning Effect of Multimode Beams in Specialized Fiber Light Guides and Its Application for Biomedicine".
The SuperJob portal published a ranking of the best universities in Russia according to IT specialist’s salaries. It was based on university graduate data from 2019-2024. Novosibirsk State University took 7th place, finishing behind universities in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
This is the best result in the last 10 years of the University's participation in the IMC.
This was NSU’s first experience conducting such a long event with the participation of young researchers from different countries.
On June 2, NSU hosted the grand opening of InteRussia 2025, an internship program for international engineering specialists. This is Novosibirsk State University’s second internship program.
The Moscow International School on Quantum Technologies (ISQT) brought together 30 of the best students from all over Russia. Among the participants were Ksenia Kozenko and Katerina Kozlova, first-year Master's students at the NSU Physics Department.
Compared to 2024, NSU rose two positions, from 7th to 5th place, to move ahead of Tomsk State University and St. Petersburg State University.
Over 600 thousand books weighing 180 tons will be transported over the summer to their home in the new NSU Scientific Library.
This year the II International Russia-Africa Cooperation Forum "Education, Business, Culture - 2025" will be held in conjunction with the XII International Forum "Technoprom-2025" in August. The event is organized by the Center for Public Diplomacy, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk State Technical University, and the Consortium of Russian Universities for the Development of Cooperation with African Countries.
The NSU Institute of Medicine and Medical Technologies (IMMT) reports that more than 90% of the work on stained glass windows and the ventilated facade has been completed. Similar work at the NSU Scientific Research Center (NSU SRC), is 80% done.
The Russian Federation Presidential Scholarship for postgraduate and adjunct students announced 500 winners in its second year competition. The monthly scholarship is 75 thousand rubles and can last from 1 to 4 years. In 2025, the number of NSU Presidential Scholarship winners more than doubled to 17.