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International cooperation
21 May 2020
Reunião do Comitê Coordenador Nacional da Universidade em Rede do BRICS (BRICS UR)

Uma reunião à distância do Comitê Coordenador Nacional da Universidade em Rede do BRICS (BRICS UR) realizou-se em 20 de maio de 2020, com a participação de representantes do Ministério da Ciência e Ensino Superior da Federação da Rússia, assim como de instituições do ensino superior integrantes da Universidade em Rede do BRICS.

International cooperation
20 May 2020
Congratulations to the winners and prize-winners of the RUDN Open Olympiad for foreign citizens

The jury summed up the results of the RUDN Open Olympiad for foreign citizens held in full-time format in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Ethiopia before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Education
18 May 2020
“I spend about 14 hours a week on checking one assignment in one discipline. It’s almost 2 full working days, ” says Daria Kapralova, Ph.D. in biological sciences, senior lecturer, Department of Environmental Monitoring and Forecasting, RUDN University

Education
18 May 2020
“The doctor should not be afraid to stain the coat”: medical students pass their main exam

About how the practice was organized for medical students of the 4th and 5th years, which residents were “hired” back in March and which exam is the main one for the final year students - in an interview with Alexei Abramov, MD, professor, director of RUDN University Medical Institute.

About RUDN
18 May 2020
RUR-2020: RUDN University takes 7th place among Russian universities and 4th in teaching quality

According to RUR World University Rankings 2020, RUDN University is on the 7th line among Russian universities and 369th in the world, showing an increase of 49 positions among world universities during the year. In the quality of teaching, the university is among the four leaders in Russia.

Life in RUDN
18 May 2020
Measures taken at RUDN

We have collected relevant information on distance education and work under current conditions of coronavirus infection spread. The information on the page is constantly updated.

Life in RUDN
06 May 2020
“Education is the most important channel of human socialization. You cannot enjoy that at a distance. After all, the greatest luxury is communicating with interesting people”, Daria Kazarinova

Why does a lecturer need an interlocutor, how to prepare for the lesson, and why do you want to isolate yourself even more in self-isolation at home – read in an interview with Daria Kazarinova, Ph.D. (Political sciences), assistant professor of RUDN Department of comparative political science.

Life in RUDN
30 Apr 2020
Sketches of facades, sketches of interiors, sketches of costumes, a large drawing in a stretcher...

How landscape students protect creative projects online - in an interview with Tatyana Zhukova from the Agrarian and Technological Institute of RUDN University.

Science
28 Apr 2020
RUDN University chemist discovered a way to quadruple the speed of toluene photooxidation

A chemist from RUDN University has proposed a new way to control toluene photooxidation using composite catalysts — artificial diamond and titanium dioxide. The discovery refutes the previously existing physical hypothesis about the process of photooxidation of toluene.

Education
27 Apr 2020
“I miss those moments when you see a question in the eyes”, assistant professor Pavel Davydenko

“The very name of the form of training – “full-time” (ochny in Russian) - means the opportunity to teach, looking in the eyes (ochi in Russian)." Do you think these are the words of a philosopher or a philologist? They are not. This is engineer Pavel Davydenko, assistant professor of the Department of Mechanic and Instrument Engineering, RUDN Engineering Academy. In distance teaching he uses his son's toys to explain the principle of gearing and manipulators of industrial robots. And the daughter gives him room at her desk after she takes online lessons at school.

Life in RUDN
27 Apr 2020
Kindness has no nationality: RUDN volunteers lend a helping hand

Students from different countries who walk on campus, play sports, sit on benches, ringing laughter in national cuisine cafes - a familiar picture for RUDN University. But today you won’t meet anyone but rare passers - by, who are likely to be volunteers in a hurry to help a student, employee or university veteran.

Science
26 Apr 2020
RUDN University biologist developed new model for analyzing photosynthesis in vivo

A RUDN University biologist has developed a model for the analysis of photosynthesis in vivo. This method allows you to calculate the absorption coefficient of light by chlorophyll, based on its reflectivity. Analysis of light absorption is important for assessing ecosystem productivity, which affects the state of the biosphere and the global climate.