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.
This was NSU’s first experience conducting such a long event with the participation of young researchers from different countries.
Novosibirsk State University, with the support of the Center for Public Diplomacy, has opened a preparatory department at Thomas Sankara University in Burkina Faso.
This is the best result in the last 10 years of the University's participation in the IMC.
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.
Kim Il Sung University, the leading university in the DPRK, is exploring the possibility of opening a representative office in Akademgorodok.
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.
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.
Novosibirsk State University is discussing the possibility of opening a full-time Biomedical Preparatory Department in Cairo or Alexandria Egypt by the end of 2025 in partnership with Rossotrudnichestvo and an Egyptian recruiting company.
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".
Students at the NSU Institute of Intelligent Robotics (IIR), Nikita Zelenkov, Yan Komarevtsev, and Ilya Trushkin, participated in the NSU Startup Studio and created the ACMS Censor system that hides unwanted content in video and audio files.
Alam Md Mustaqim Bin, a second-year student at the NSU Physics Department from Bangladesh, finished among the top 8% of participants and won a silver award.