On February 13, Ian B. Spielman, a prominent physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Vilnius University (VU).

The group of scientists from Trinity College Dublin created a biological sensor that detects and traps water pollutants in the same way Venus flytraps catch insects. The news was published not only in prestigious science magazines: the exciting story on the invention was released in The Times, Daily Mail and other publications. One of the members of the research team is KTU Applied Chemistry graduate Karolis Norvaiša.

Fresh from the Silicon Valley, where they completed the 16-week-long internship at NASA Ames Research Centre, Deividas Čelkys and Tomas Narbutas from Kaunas University of Technology Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Design are sharing their insights.

KTU’s partner educations.com is offering a €5,000 scholarship for studying master’s in Europe. To be eligible for the scholarship you must have applied (or be applying) to a university or graduate school within Europe and this has to be not your home country. For more information, please check their website. The deadline for the applications is 13 April 2020.

“Anywhere in the world you go, and I mean – anywhere – if you have skills you will definitely get the job”, says Dr Kumar Anubhav Tiwari, a researcher at Kaunas University of Technology Ultrasound Research Institute. Although now the situation has changed significantly, in 2015, when Kumar came to study PhD, the state scholarship was smaller than his salary in India. However, he rose up to the challenge and has never regretted the decision.

29.15 per cent efficiency is the new world record for a tandem solar element. The record-breaking solar cell made of the semiconductors perovskite and silicon was developed by Lithuanian and German researchers. This value has been officially certified by the CalLab of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems; the material used to produce the record-breaking solar cell was developed at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania.

The food, culture, customs and weather all differ from what Egyptian student Rasha Geneid was accustomed to in her home town of Ismailia, about 115-kilometers from Cairo.

The most pressing environmental issues – extreme weather, pollution, marine plastics, hazardous waste – affect the world’s development and economic growth. However, people are still divided on climate change: some are worried that it will alter the world, while others are not sure the issue is worth addressing at all.

In the spring of 2019, Vilnius University Faculty of Law (VU TF) and Harvard Law School (HLS) implemented cooperation on an educational project to promote knowledge about American copyright law. “CopyrightX” is a twelve-week interactive lecture series on United States copyright law organized by HLS and affiliate institutions around the world. Forty VU TF students participated in this project.

A team of students from Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) BeltaMom has designed a belt for pregnant women that monitors the condition of the fetus from the 2nd trimester. It helps to keep track of the baby’s heart rate, his or her movements, weight and water volume. The innovation was labelled as the best in the healthcare field at the annual Silicon Valley Innovation Challenge organized by San Jose State University, US.