Dr Denis Gergilev, Director of the Institute for the Humanities, SibFU, will speak on the image of Siberia in the 18th-20th centuries as seen by the representatives of non-indigenous people. The lecture will be hosted by the Regional Research Library on 12 April 2014.

SibFU signed a collaboration agreement with Altai State University. The universities intend to develop joint research projects, double educational programmes, and postdoctoral programmes.

Thirteen SibFU's study programmes are among the best educational programmes taught by the RF institutions of higher education. The competition proposals included 32,000 study programmes from the institutions of higher education. Two thousand eight hundred programmes became the winners of the competition.

Dr Gladyshev, SibFU's professor and Deputy Head at the Institute of Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, is a member of Expert Council at Russian Science Foundation.

Mathematics research paper «Entropy: The Markov Ordering Approach» by a research team that includes SibFU's doctoral student Pavel Gorban' received 2014 best paper award, according to international multidisciplinary 'Entropy' journal.

SibFU's mathematical research project 'Multi-dimesnsional complex analysis and differential equations' was supported by the Ministry of Education and Research. This research project will be carried out by an advanced research group.

SibFU will host the X National Research Conference for students, doctoral students and young researchers from 15 to 25 April, 2014. Conference proceedings will be published online. Best papers will be included in a printed book of conference proceedings.

A delegation from Dongbay University of Finance and Economics visited SibFU to see the university and sign a memorandum of understanding.

According to the results of the international university ranking, Global World Communicator (GWC), SibFU has the 365th rank among top 500 universities.