While AlmaU welcomed first-year students to Orientation Week in Almaty, participants in the ‘500 Scientists’ program by Bolashak attended ‘Adaptation Week’ at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the US.
The orientation week started with an introduction to the university campus located in the merged cities of Urbana and Champaign, in the centre of the state of Illinois.
Some statistics about the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
– The university is made up of 650 buildings
– It first opened its doors in 1867
– It has the 4th biggest academic library in America (after Harvard, Yale, and Columbine)
– It has seen 30 Nobel Prize winners and 27 Pulitzer Prize winners!
The Director of Global Education and Training, Matthew Rosenstein, greeted the program participants and told them about the university’s opportunities for students.
The students were also introduced to the safety guidelines in campus life, where Detective Tara Herless spoke about the available help provided by police for the residents of the university city.
Scientists from AlmaU established contact with this educational institution, one of the best research universities in the USA, for the first time in 2021, when the Vice-Rector for Academic Development, Assel Aryn, and the Dean of the School of Digital Technology, Kuanysh Abeshev, took part in the semi-annual internship in the framework of the Bolashak Program. This year, the third stream of participants included 15 people, all representing different universities in Kazakhstan. This year, 4 employees and teaching staff from AlmaU are participating in the program, including the Dean of the School of Management, Aiman Melisovna, the Dean of the School of Transformative Humanities, Nurken Abayuly, and teachers Zhuldyz Abiyeva and Sanim Zhanbyrbayeva.
There are 9 months of internship ahead, where the scientists will conduct research and write scientific works on specific themes to do with education, linguistics, and management, among other industries.