DUAG member Prof. Rostyslav Bilyy at Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University and his research group developed a novel blood-activating coagulator to meet the urgent need of the…
Category: Discoveries
Lost letters, a project supported by the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ Foundation)
The discovery of numerous letters from forced laborers in Ukrainian archives started with a family story and a secret. Witali Geds, a Historian and specialist on World War…
The Ukrainian-English Collocation Dictionary published
Yuri I. Shevchuk, Lecturer in Ukrainian at the Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University, USA has published a groundbreaking new Ukrainian language resource: Ukrainian-English Collocation Dictionary (Hippocrene Books, 2021), which provides…
Unique historical testimonies of Ukrainian dissidents saved
26 tapes of video recordings of Ukrainian dissidents were saved in Canada by filmmaker Yuriy Lugovy and producer Zoryana Hrytsenko. These recordings are unique because they were made…
Commemorative: Oleh Hornykiewicz, world’s leading neuroscientist (1926-2020)
Ukraine-born Oleh Hornykiewicz passed away on 26 May 2020 aged 93. His greatest achievement and contribution to humanity was “opening a new approach in the control of Parkinson’s disease by…
Exploring The Ukrainian Troy
Archeological treasure trove points to Mykolaiv’s ancient origins and has a potential to rewrite history books, but underfunding prevents full analysis of this exciting site. In the recent…
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…
Vadim Berezinskii and the Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition, for which John M. Kosterlitz and David J. Thouless were awarded the Nobel Prize in 2016
An interesting insight into the earlier contribution of Kyiv-born Vadim Berezinskii, which was among discoveries that led to the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics: “One year before the…
UKRAINE: Аnton Naumovets is one of four scientists awarded the 2016 UNESCO Medal for Contributions to the Development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies
On 11 October 2016, 4 eminent scientists and 2 institutions received the UNESCO Medals for Contributions to the Development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies during a ceremony held at…
Vladimir Betz and a new era of neuroscience started in Kyiv
Do you know Betz’s Giant pyramidal cells? Most probably yes – especially if you have studied a life science subject or neurosciences, to be precise. Do you know…