5 RUDN students become Potanin Scholarship holders
The in-person round of the competition was held in the format of business games and cases and revealed the winners:
- Timofey Mazurchuk – 1st-year Master student, Faculty of Economics
- Pamila Osipova – 2nd-year Master student, Institute of Biotechnology and Nanotechnology
- Radmila Pokrayats – 1st-year Master student, Law Institute
- Ekaterina Slutskaya– 1st -year Master student, Institute of Biotechnology and Nanotechnology
- Maria Tislenko - 1st -year Master student, Faculty of Economics.
“The competition surprised with its non-standard interactive tasks where we had to show leadership skills - erudition, teamwork, organization, creative approach to solving problems.” said Radmila Pokrayats, a student at the Law Institute.
Oksana Oracheva, Director General of the Vladimir Potanin Foundation, said that, in addition to excellent social skills, the participants have a high academic culture and interests in the advanced areas of education. In addition, all scholars showed a desire for positive changes around them, many of them already have experience in volunteering and designing, others noted that they wanted to start participating in public life.
According to the results of the extramural testing, 1,998 people entered the second round, and 500 Master students were declared winners.
The winners of the Scholarship Competition will receive a monthly stipend of the Vladimir Potanin Charitable Foundation in the amount of 20 thousand rubles a month from February 2019 until the end of their studies in the magistracy.
December 15, Minsk hosted the IX International Student Olympiad in Human Anatomy. It was attended by 9 teams from Russia and Belarus. Students of RUDN took two 3rd places in the theoretical and practical rounds.
The VI Firsova Readings conference “Modern languages and cultures: variability, functions, ideologies in the cognitive aspect”, held at the Faculty of Philology brought together speakers from Russia, England, Hungary, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands, working in 9 thematic sessions. The conference featured a workshop, a round table and three seminars in Russian and English.
RUDN University will again become the most international platform for the Geographical Dictation, which will be held on November 19, in Russia and abroad. The dictation is held annually by the Russian Geographical Society on the initiative of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The key goal of the project is to popularize geographical knowledge and increase interest in the geography of Russia. Test your geographic literacy!