The Fulbright Program in Ukraine presents 17 Ukrainian Fulbright scholars currently in the U.S. for the 2017-2018 academic year, with information on their host institutions, descriptions of their…
Category: Awards & Prizes
The winners of the 2017 PhD Thesis Presentation Contest have been announced
On the 6th of October 2017 in Augsburg the PhD Thesis Presentation Contest took place for the second time within the framework of the Annual Meeting of the…
Switzerland, Zürich: Particle physicist Lesya Shchutska wins the ERC Starting grant in 2017 competition
With her ERC funding Dr Lesya Shchutska (ETH Zürich/ CERN) will exploit the capabilities of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN to search for new particles, so-called…
USA: 2017 Stanford Bright Award goes to green energy innovators Andrij and Roman Zinchenko
This $100,000 prize is given annually to recognize otherwise unheralded contributions to global sustainability. Andrij and Roman Zinchenko were distinguished for their work supporting and promoting sustainable energy…
UKRAINE: Ivano-Frankivsk Researchers are the Winners of the Instrumental Access Program
By Dr Ouliana Djaman and Prof. Volodomyr Lushchak, Precarpathian National University in Ivano-Frankivsk HPLC, CO2 incubators, microplate readers, inverted microscopes, PCR machine, Hamilton syringes, metabolic cages for mice,…
Winners of the Vernadsky Challenge have been announced
Ukraine Digital News reports on the the third edition of international engineering startup competition Vernadsky Challenge, which was held in Dnipro in late April 2017. The winners are:…
Maryna Viazovska is appointed the 2016-2017 Minerva Distinguished Visitor, Princeton University
As part of this appointment Maryna Viazovska gave 4 lectures in March-April 2017. The Distinguished Visitor is a semester-long appointment to the Department of Mathematics allowing top mathematicians…
Professor Yury Gogotsi wins the 2016 Nano Energy Award
Professor Yury Gogotsi, whose over 400 papers in peer-reviewed journals have been cited over 37,000 times, was awarded the 2016 Nano Energy Award for his outstanding contribution to…
Maryna Viazovska is distinguished with the Salem Prize 2016
In the 3rd issue of our Newsletter we reported about remarkable research done by the mathematician Maryna Viazovska (Berlin Mathematical School and Humboldt University in Berlin). Last July…
Dr Taras Gagalyuk Leads Project “LaScalA ” with two Partner Organisations in Ukraine
Dr Gagalyuk of the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Halle (Saale), Germany is among the 25 winners of the Leibniz Competition with the project…