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PSU Speaker Participates Symposium at Oxford Botanic Garden 400th Anniversary

On 22 October, Perm State University (PSU) joined Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum for their celebration of 400th anniversary.  

The international symposium ‘Celebrating Botanic Gardens: Past, Present and Future’ united 26 world renowned speakers from 22 botanic gardens, arboreta, herbaria across the globe – to discuss the vital role botanic gardens play in horticulture research education and conservation, online.

On behalf of Perm State University, Sergei Shumikhin, head of PSU Botanical Garden, took part as a speaker at the Horticulture and Collections session – sharing Perm-based practices of horticulture, research, education and conservation. As Sergei Shumikhin has commented,

“Not only did I spoke for the PSU Botanical Garden, I was privileged to represent my country among the leading professionals across the world. So, in my report I did my best to refer to a whole system of botanical gardens in Russia, mentioning their contribution to our global mission, and its perspective.”

The Symposium reports showed the enormous role of botanical gardens in solving urgent global problems, including climate change and biodiversity conservation under new conditions. The participants expressed admiration about the high level the Symposium organization and its open friendly character.

“It was incredibly nice to see familiar faces and hear their voices – to mention Alex and Helen Coren, Prof. Simon Hiscock, Dr. Bob Price, Dr. Chris Thorogood, Dr. Lauren Baker and many others – with whom our garden has been in friendly and professional connection for many years,”

Sergei Shumikhin shares.

The oldest botanic garden in the UK, Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum has been running a year-long campaign of celebratory activities, explaining the importance of plants to people in the face of global challenges, and the critical role botanic gardens play around the world.

“Two days of the international Symposium proved to be a holiday of science, culture and friendship, which flew in a twinkle of an eye. Bringing at one ‘place’ inspiring speakers resulted in new acquaintances and academic contacts,”

recollects Sergei Shumikhin.

The event was sponsored by Plants, People, Planet and the New Phytologist Foundation.

Film by PSU Alumnus Nominated for Oscar

Lyubov Mulmenko, a graduate of the Faculty of Philology, Perm State University (PSU) is listed among the co-authors of the script for the film “Compartment No. 6 “, nominated for an Oscar prize (https://abc.com/shows/oscars), in a Category “Best Movie in a Foreign Language”, representing Finland.

“Compartment No. 6” (Finnish: “Hytti nro 6”) is a 2021 internationally co-produced drama, which shows a story of a Finnish student forming an unlikely friendship with a gruff Russian miner, on a train from Moscow to Murmansk. Based on a novel by Rosa Liksom, the film was co-written and directed by Juho Kuosmanen, and united a crew from Finland, Germany, Estonia and Russia. Lyubov Mulmenko was invited to work on dialogues in Russian, as a script had been originally written in English.

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit in the film industry. They are regarded as the most prestigious and significant awards in the entertainment industry worldwide, since 1929. Given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the awards are an international recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements, as assessed by the Academy’s voting membership.

Earlier, “Compartment No. 6” got the Palme d’Or Grand Prix at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.  Founded in 1946 in Cannes, France, it is one of the “Big Three” major European film festivals, and an event for the whole global cinema industry.

In 2021, the Cannes Festival saw another film by Lyubov Mulmenko, also performing as a co-screen writer (lead by Kira Kovalenko and a co-director Anton Yarush) – “Unclenching the Fists”, a family drama growing in a mining town in North Ossetia – a story of a young woman struggles to escape the stifling hold of the family she loves as much as she rejects. “Unclenching Fists” won the Grand Prix of the Uncleaning View author’s film competition at the 74th Cannes Film Festival.

The American Variety  Weekly has included Lyubov Mulmenko in the list of 12 Rising Russian Talents Ready for the Global Stage.

From a young age, Lyubov Mulmenko knew she would be a writer: “I just adored inventing the characters and the worlds they live in”. Gradually, she tried “to learn even more in the process.” At Perm State University, Lyubov studied journalism, and further art journalism at the Pro Arte Institute in St. Petersburg. For several years then, she worked in media, including the Sol Internet Newspaper, the Companion Magazine, the New Companion Newspaper, and wrote as a columnist for the https://Lenta.ru.

In 2014, Mulmenko made her screenwriting debut with a trio of drama films that screened in festivals including Rotterdam, San Sebastian and Karlovy Vary. Recently, Lyubov Mulmenko presented her directorial debut, “The Danube”, in the main competition of the Kinotavr Film Festival. “All I hope is to continue with storytelling,” she says, “but I’d like to write less for others and make more films myself.”

“Compartment No. 6” Poster.

“Compartment No. 6” Frame: – Official Trailer.

Lyubov Mulmenko Picture Source and “The Danube” poster: @lyubov.mulmenko on Facebook

“Compartment No. 6” at the Cannes Festival.

PSU Provides Access to Variety of Global Journals in Science

In the falls of 2021, PSU students and teaching staff will enjoy access to full-text global databases in science. Not only it is the opportunity to see articles online, but also download their full versions in pdf; several sources enable the use of multimedia and interactive tutorials.

Most of the resources are available at PSU IP-addresses allowing to use them remotely at any location, through different gadgets – via the University campus network, or an ‘extended’ VPN-connection.

Get a free VPN- pass through the University Internet Center at internet@psu.ru, indicating your full name, position and department (for employees); course and faculty (for students); and, date of birth. Some resources allow access through a collective login and password, which can be obtained at PSU Academic Library (Scientific and Methodological Department, building 1, ground floor, room 146, tel.: +7 (342) 239-65-05, e-mail: nmo@psu.ru.  

RFBR Resources

The Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) provides test access to databases of Russian scientific and educational institutions. Based on the test results, a list of resources will be formed that will be available at Perm State University throughout 2022, through a centralized and national subscription.

Multi-Disciplinary Resources

De Gruyter: full-text collection of journals Complete eJournal Collection (334 journals) of the German academic publishing house Walter de Gruyter. The collection includes journals in mathematics, chemistry, economics, medicine, biology, linguistics and other sciences.

Brief review and test access. Access: IP-addresses of the University.

Due to: 4 December, 2021.

Bentham Science: a full-text collection of Bentham Journal Collection (1,065 journals) and Bentham Ebook Collection (132 books) from Bentham Science Publishers, which specializes in technology and medicine scientific literature.

Brief review and test access. Access: by IP-addresses of the University.

Due to: 4 December, 2021.

JoVE Video Journal: a peer-reviewed scientific video journal that combines high-quality video demos with detailed textual accompaniment. JoVE publishes materials on a wide range of topics: behavioral biology, biochemistry, bioengineering, cancer research, chemistry, developmental biology, engineering, environmental sciences, genetics, immunology, medicine, neurobiology.

Brief review and test access. Access: by IP-addresses of the University.

Due to: 4 December, 2021.

STM eBooks is a full-text collection of books from Taylor & Francis. Brief review and test access. Access: by IP-addresses of the University.

Due to: 10 December, 2021.

Premier eJournal Collection: a full-text journal collection (309 journals) from the Emerald Publishing. Brief review and test access. Access: by IP-addresses of the University.

Due to: 18 December, 2021.

JSTOR: a full-text database of peer-reviewed scientific journals and books: Arts & Sciences I (116 journals), Arts & Sciences II (112 journals), Arts & Sciences IV (109 journals), Arts & Sciences VI (141 journals), Arts & Sciences VII (186 journals), Life Sciences (206 journals), Business & Economics (240 journals), Mathematics & Statistics (81 journals), JSTOR Sustainability (115 journals).

Access: by IP-addresses of the University.

Due to: 18 December, 2021.

eBook Academic Collection: a full-text collection of interdisciplinary e-books on a wide range of scientific topics from EBSCO.

Access: by IP-addresses of the University.

Due to: 18 December, 2021.

Specialized Resources:

Microbiology Society: a full-text collection of six journals from the Microbiological Science Society. Brief review and test access. Access: by IP-addresses of the University.

Due to: 4 December, 2021.

ASM Journals: a full-text collection by the American Society for Microbiology. Consists of 18 journals in microbiology, immunology, bacteriology, virology, molecular and cell biology.

Brief review and test access. Access: by IP-addresses of the University.

Due to: 10 December, 2021.

Orbis All Companies: a factual database from Bureau Van Dijk that contains microeconomic data for 400 million private and public companies worldwide. The complementing source of Orbis Intellectual Property is a full-text patent database of private and public companies around the world.

Brief review and test access. Access: by IP-addresses of the University.

Due to: 12 December, 2021.

Inorganic Crystal Structure Database: the world’s largest database of fully identified inorganic crystal structures. Brief review and test access. Access: by IP-addresses of the University.  

Due to: 4 December, 2021.

SciFindern: an online service for searching and analyzing information for research in chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, nanotechnology, physics, geology, metallurgy and other disciplines.

Brief review and test access. Access: using a login and password, with a previous registration, using the link in the PSU network or via a VPN-connection. To proceed, one must obtain a corporate email address with the @psu.ru domain. After that, all registered users will be able to log into SciFinder using their username and password remotely from anywhere.

Due to: 10 December, 2021.

CHEMnetBASE: a full-text database of reference materials on chemistry and related sciences from the publishing house Taylor & Francis.

Brief review and test access. Access: by IP-addresses of the University.

Due to: 10 December, 2021.

Сhemistry journal package: full-text collection (5 journals) published by Thieme Group. Brief review and test access. Access: by IP-addresses of the University.

Due to: 19 December, 2021.

Science of Synthesis: a database for organic and organometallic chemists containing full-text descriptions of organic transformations and synthetic methods, as well as experimental procedures.

Brief review and test access. Access: by IP-addresses of the University.

Due to: 19 December, 2021.

SIAM “Package D” Trial Package: Full-text journal collection (18 journals) from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Brief review and test access. Access: by IP-addresses of the University.

Due to: 18 December, 2021.

Full-text collections of IWA Publishing eJournals and IWA Publishing 2021 eBook Collection from IWA Publishing. Access: by IP-addresses of the University.  

Due to: 18 December, 2021.

Applied Science & Technology Source Ultimate: a full-text collection from the EBSCO company. Brief review and test access. Access: by IP-addresses of the University.

Due to: 18 December, 2021.

Engineering Village: a dedicated research platform for summarizing and indexing in engineering and tecnical content. Brief review and test access.

Knovel is a database that allows you to accelerate the search for proven experimental data and ready-made technical solutions (exit through the Engineering Village platform).
Access: by IP-addresses of the University.

Due to: 18 December, 2021.

Resources of Other Operators (not included into national subscription)

SciVal: analytical system designed to analyze publication activity in the Scopus bibliographic database. Access: by IP-addresses of the University.

Due to: 31 October, 2021.

Gale: an extensive database of primary and secondary sources in arts, humanities, social sciences, business and economics, and technical sciences.

Brief review and test access. Access: by IP-addresses of the University.

Due to: 5 November, 2021.

AM Explorer: a platform of Adam Matthew academic publishing house, which deals with humanities and social sciences, and publishes digital primary sources from archives around the world.

Brief review and test access. Access: by IP-addresses of the University.

Due to: 6 December, 2021.

AccessMedicine: A resource for internal and family medicine, as well as medical and health education. Brief review and test access.

Access: by IP-addresses of the University, via Free MyAccessProfile personal account (after registration within the University network), or a collective login and password.

Due to: 22 October, 2021.

AccessPharmacy contains about 100 key books and textbooks, as well as training materials on pharmacology and pharmaceuticals. Brief review and test access.

Access: by IP-addresses of the University, via Free MyAccessProfile personal account (after registration within the University network), or a collective login and password.

Due to: 22 October, 2021.

Begell House: books, journals and databases, including on chemistry and chemical engineering. Brief review and test access.

Access: by IP-addresses of the University, or via collective login and password.

Due to: 16 October, 2021.

BMJ Journals: over 70 medical and other scientific journals in related fields. Brief review and test access. Access: by IP-addresses of the University.

Due to: 18 October, 2021.

Anatomy.tv: The most accurate and medically detailed images of human anatomy presented in 3D animations, illustrations and videos.тAccess: by IP-addresses of the University.

Due to: 20 October, 2021.

EMIS: an information and analytical database of business-oriented fields (information on companies and industries, news content, research, including EMIS analytical materials and forecasts).

Brief review and test access. Access: by IP-addresses of the University.

Due to: 28 October, 2021.

The Reshenie (“Solution”) Video Library stores thematic collections of educational videos, allowing university teachers to run trainings in an interactive format.

Brief review and test access. Access: by IP-addresses of the University.

Due to: 15 October, 2021.

World Scientific: a broad context and multi-discipline scientific and technical publishing house. Brief review and test access. Access: by IP-addresses of the University.

Due to: 23 October, 2021.

Please, address your questions on digital library resources to PSU Academic Library (Scientific and Methodological Department, building 1, ground floor, room 146, tel.: +7 (342) 239-65-05, e-mail: nmo@psu.ru

PSU Re-Establishes Positions in International Rankings

Round University Ranking (RUR) and Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings have renewed the lists of globally acclaimed universities, with Perm State University re-establishing its competitive status.  

According to RUR, Perm State University (PSU) has raised up from 481 to 380 place in Humanities. PSU shows most significant progress in “Educational Activity” (248 to 128 place) and “Scientific Activity” (549 to 494 place). On a national level, PSU takes 13th place in Humanities, incl. 9th place in “Education”, and 12th place in “Scientific Activity”: https://roundranking.com/ranking/subject-rankings.html#world-humanities-2021

In Social Sciences, PSU has moved up internationally from 658 to 632 place, demonstrating the growth in “Scientific Activity” (706 to 668 place) and “Financial stability” (363 to 314 place). Staying 35th  nationally, PSU has made a few steps up in “Scientific Activity” (44 to 32 place), and a couple steps down in “Educational Activity” (38 to 42) : https://roundranking.com/ranking/subject-rankings.html#world-social-2021   

The Round University Ranking (RUR) had been set by a Russian development team and is based on international data collected annually from more than 800 leading universities in the world from 75-80 countries by 20 unique indicators and 4 key areas (teaching, research, international diversity, financial sustainability). All raw data for RUR Rankings is provided by Thomson Reuters. RUR Rankings cover the period from 2010 to the present.

On 19 October, 2021, PSU has also been ranked 501+ in the 2022 Times Higher Education Emerging Economies University Rankings.

Last year, PSU has improved it’s performance in Times Higher Education (THE, UK), and keeps in several areas: teaching quality, research activities, and contribution to innovation. In addition to the mentioned criteria, THE assesses universities in terms of citation index, share of foreign students and foreign teachers. In total, to compile the rating, the experts take into account thirteen indicators.

A total of 48 Russian universities were included in the top list, in 2022. Initially, PSU appeared in THE Ranking in 2017.

Times Higher Education (THE), formerly The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES), is a weekly magazine based in London, reporting specifically on news and issues related to higher education. It is the United Kingdom’s leading publication in its field. The ranking place is compiled on the basis of data from three sources: statistical information from universities, a bibliometric database of Scopus and a survey of academic experts.

Stanford Scholar opens PSU International Forum, Raises Discussion

How does our brain look, when making social-based, moral decisions? Can we speak of morality if we mention animals, let’s say, rats? May we introduce the holy commandments into such tests, and why?

Today, the International Forum “Science and Global Challenges of the 21st Century” started at Perm State University, uniting PSU scholars with those national and international ones, aiming to incorporate cross-discipline research, smart technologies and innovations into pragmatic, problem-applied decisions.

At the start of the Forum, the opening report “Manipulation of Brain States” by Dr. Luis de Lecea, Stanford University School of Medicine (Stanford, USA) was presented to on- and offline audience.

Concentrating on a problem of brain cells manipulation within the optogenetics’ approach, Dr. Luis de Lecea drew on the example of a rat leaving a ‘safe’ dark chamber into ‘unsafe’ light. Along the use of a neuron signal, the rat learned to ‘calm down’ its neighbor locked in a shadow zone, causing less stress for both and heading to a more balanced co-existence, establishing ‘moral’ principles of behavior. 

The test raised discussion among the audience. First, a definition of morals and its division from a mere instinct was requested. Then, the question of a goal/hypothesis of such experiment was asked. Finally, Dr. Oleg Pensky, Professor of the IT Department, PSU proposed assimilation of commandments, shared by believers and regarded as true morals, to be introduced into the experiment.      

Technically, optogenetics is known as a biological tool that involves light to control neurons that have been genetically modified to express light-sensitive ion channels in living tissue and, remarkably, within freely-moving animals. The appearance of additional philosophical notions, such as understanding, compassion, or morals brings a new dimension into a strictly ‘natural’ academic approach.   

Optogenetics had been previously announced by academic research journals as a breakthrough in science. On the clinical side, optogenetics-driven research led to insights into Parkinson’s disease and other neurological and psychiatric disorders, including autism, Schizophrenia, drug abuse, anxiety, and depression, and more – like experimental treatment for blindness.

Meet PSU Scholars Through Springer Publications!

Interested in international science and research? Ever thought of studying in Russia, or collaborating with Russian colleagues? Looking for relevant phenomena to explore, or make money from?  

Students, scholars, teaching fellows are getting ready for the start of the international forum “The Science and Global Challenges in the 21st Century“, taking place on 18 October23 November at Perm State University (Perm, Russia). 

The Forum is an international event aiming to comprehend the tasks and problems faced by science and education, as well as the society in general – within the context of globalization, proposing solutions, targets and opportunities, regarding possible challenges and risk management. The Forum scholars aim to form end-to-end innovation chains, enabling fundamental and applied research, technology development, practical applications and widespread use of IT.

For the Forum, an impressive set of 99 reports have been published under the Springer series “Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies”. The Forum proceedings, with a full translation into English, cover all the disciplines studied at 12 PSU Faculties, and beyond.

The “Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies” book series publish research on such topics as knowledge, intelligence, innovation and sustainability – solving global problems in industry, ecology and society. The publication addresses the challenge of modern science and humanities, technology and business – revealing common challenges, looking for intelligent tools of their resolution.

PSU Celebrates 105th Anniversary

Dear students and teachers, university staff and alumni, friends and international partners, 

Thank you for your multiple warm greetings, words of love and support!  We regard 105th Anniversary a small, yet meaningful step to a brighter future. We are happy to feel your cooperation, growing seeds and sharing fruit of knowledge, on the way!

The amount of knowledge to achieve personal and social progress has been constantly growing over past 100 years. The centennial move has provided us more data and ways to process it than the entire human history. Exploring the world, we create its future and reinvent our better selves.

Perm State University (PSU) has been a live actor of that movement – opening doors to many scientists and teachers, national and international ones, initiating research in a broad variety of disciplines, contributing to success of young and mature professionals. 

Our graduates are lawyers, diplomats, pharmacists, journalists, interpreters, ecologists, economists, IT security and hi-tech specialists, experts in oil industry and resources – the range of professions highly demanded worldwide. The ‘classical’ university provides a unique choice of knowledge, and gives further perspectives for your growth.

According to Quacquarelli Symonds experts (https://www.qs.com/, QS), PSU is included into the list of top 1000 world universities. Along with 48 best universities of Russia, we fit in the league of 500+ higher educational institutions from the countries of emerging economies, upon Times Higher Education (THE, UK) rankings.

By 2021, PSU signed 102 agreements on research and academic cooperation with 87 universities from 25 foreign countries: Abkhazia, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Israel, India, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Korea, Macedonia, Mexico, Norway, Poland, UK, USA, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Turkey and Uzbekistan. For several decades, we are proud to be partners of the University of Oxford (UK).

PSU is not merely a study ground, but a place for research, arts and sport activities, and a home for many foreign students.  The University supports summer schools and conferences, scientific exchange and double degree programs, startups and international research groups. We strongly believe that strive for knowledge and peace, mutual understanding and compassion will make the University safer and better. Together, we can make it!

Look forward to hearing from all of you, and get in touch as one Universum!  

PSU Students Get into Top 50 World Programmers Teams

As a result of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Championship Finals, the students of Perm State University have entered Top 50 best teams in programming, taking 46th place out of 115 teams.

A team from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, PSU named Bagels consisted of 3 students – Alexander Tsaplin, Dmitry Sidorenko, Dmitry Buzmakov, and Mikhail Lizunov, team coach.

At the competitions, participants were required to write a program code to solve complex algorithmic problems and teamwork skills within limited resources and time: a computer and a set of tasks that needed to be solved in 5 hours.

“We got positive emotions from the Contest, and achieved the goal we had set for ourselves. For two participants, this was the first time in the finals, so they feel more experienced now. The tasks were diverse and, most importantly, could find applications in real life – like generating a landscape, matching maps with marks on the globe, or improving robots’ movements,”

says Mikhail Lizunov, team’s coach.

As part of the World Championship final for participants and team coaches, the ICPC Challenge was held with the support of Huawei. Alexander Tsaplin, a member of the Bagels team, a graduate of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, PSU was announced a winner of the challenge.

University of Kansas Scholar Gives Open Lectures at PSU

PSU teaching staff and students have joined a series of online lectures by Mikhail Rubin, Associate Professor at the University of Kansas (Lawrence, USA), which will last due to 25 October, 2021.

Within the course, Mikhail Rubin is going to concentrate on modern approaches in the analysis and quality control of products within chemical, oil and gas, and pharmaceutical industries. The lectures are designed for students, graduate students, teachers and researchers of the Faculty of Chemistry. Interested scholars of related programs are also invited to take part.

“Our research group started implementing scientific projects in cooperation with Mikhail Rubin back in 2012. Not only does our activity include lectures on relevant fields of research, but also enables internships for our graduate and postgraduate students at the University of Kansas,”

says Professor Andrey Maslivets, head of the project, head of the Department of Organic Chemistry, PSU.

The lectures united under the title “Solving structural problems of organic chemistry using instrumental methods of analysis” are available on the Zoom platform and held in Russian. All lectures start at 4:30pm Perm time (2:30 Moscow time, 11:30 UTC) on the following dates: 29 September; 1, 4, 6, 8, 11, 18, 20, 22 and 25 October.

For the lectures, please, use the following Zoom link –
Meeting ID: 967 3436 2643
Pass code: 801403

Oxford Botanic Garden Celebrates 400th Anniversary, Invites Partners for Online International Symposium

On 22 October, Perm State University (PSU) joins University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum (OBGHA) for their celebration of 400th anniversary.

We invite you to join us and @OBGHA for their free, online #symposium ‘Celebrating Botanic Gardens: Past, Present and Future’ in which we will explore the vital role botanic gardens play in #horticulture #research #education and #conservation. Book now

The main event will take place on Friday 22 October (14.45-16.30 BST; Moscow time: 16:45-18:30; Perm time: 18:45-20:30). The venue is sponsored by Plants, People, Planet and the New Phytologist Foundation. The symposium will extensively use the Zoom Webinar online format, interested audience is welcome to join. The Zoom meetings will be recorded as a backup.  The event is free to attend. You can register for your place here. Spaces are limited so don’t miss out!

The international online symposium ‘Celebrating Botanic Gardens: Past, Present and Future’ will comprise 26 world renowned speakers from 22 botanic gardens, arboreta, herbaria across the globe. The Conference is free for participation and will shine a light on the vital work botanic gardens do around the world with four fascinating sessions on horticulture, research, education and conservation. On behalf of Perm State University, Sergei Shumikhin, head of PSU Botanical Garden, will take part as a speaker at the Horticulture and Collections session. 

“This year, the Botanical Gardenof Perm State University enjoys the exceptional opportunity of taking part in the international symposium by the Oxford University Botanical Gardens. Since PSU Botanical Garden will celebrate its own centennial birthday in 2022, we regard both celebrations as a chance to inspire further mutual research, educational and twinning contacts with Oxford and its University,”

says Sergei Shumikhin, head of PSU Botanical Garden, associate professor, Department of Botany and Plant Genetics, PSU.

Picture source: https://www.obga.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/obga/images/media/p1011494.jpg

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