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WEEKLY OF THE SIBERIAN BRANCH OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (SB RAS)

N 10 (2845) March 2012

	NEWS
	ACCORDING TO THE PROGRAM OF RAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY Presidium of the SB RAS has issued a resolution approving the program of the General Meeting of Siberian Branch of RAS from April 18 to April 20, 2012.
	CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE RAS E.K.ROMODANOVSKAYA IS 75 Congratulations from the SB RAS Presidium.
	LITERARY THAW IN ANCIENT RUSSIA Elena Konstantinovna Romodanovskaya celebrates her birth anniversary on March 6. The well-known scientist in the field of ancient literature, Corresponding Member of RAS, Director of the Institute of Philology of SB RAS, who has an encyclopedic knowledge of many areas and a nice personality, has spoken to our correspondent about her latest researches.
	SIBERIAN SCIENTISTS WILL HELP TO CONSTRUCT THE GARDEN-CITY IN CHINA Last week a delegation of the SB RAS headed by Academician N.Z. Lyakhov has returned from China. The purpose of their visit was to establish contacts in the field of ecology.
	CARE FOR THE PERSONNEL IS ABOVE ALL Last week, the Plenipotentiary Representative of RF President in the Siberian Federal District V.A. Tolokonsky has held at the Technopark of Novosibirsk Academgorodok a meeting on the structural development of innovative clusters and the instrument cluster, in particular.
	*Congratulations on March 8*
	Congratulations from the SB RAS Presidium
	YOUR MAJESTY WOMAN... Pre-holiday notes on the “genetic” theme.
	SOME DEGREE OF STRESS IS “HEALTHY” There are a lot of us, and we are all different. Each in its own way manifests itself in complex situations, actions, emotions, relationships. Although, as one biologist playfully remarked, we are all designed according to the same schemes, made according to the same patterns and consist, in general, of a standard set of parts.
	HUMANITARIAN-ORIENTED PHYSICAL CHEMIST In anticipation of the holiday, the best qualities of women - their diligence, commitment and dedication, that are valued under all circumstances, in any profession, are attracting our attention with a double force.
	WOMAN AS MOTHER, FIRST OF ALL Woman and Physics is a rare combination even in our times. One of these women, Ph.D.in Physics and Mathematics Elizaveta Gatapova is working at the Institute of Thermophysics of SB RAS.
	TO SAY A WORD FOR SCIENCE Irina Aleksandrovna Sotnikova - Ph.D.in Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Researcher of the Laboratory of Geochemistry of Alkaline Rocks of the A.P. Vinogradov Institute of Geochemistry of SB RAS, this year has received a grant from the Russian President.
	TIME OF CHANGES Please, become acquainted with Natalya Mikhashenok, Researcher of the Kirensky Institute of Physics of SB RAS. The theme of Ph.D. thesis this slender girl is working on is not at all female: the magnetic properties of manganese germanates and technology of growing single crystals.
	UNDER PERMAFROST CONDITIONS Larisa Lukinichna Fedorova, Senior Researcher, for more than a quarter century works at the Chersky Institute of Mining of the North of SB RAS, wherein she started working straight after graduating from the Mechanics and Mathematics Department of Novosibirsk State University.
	RECOGNITION SHOULD BE EARNED It’s not the first time that Senior Researcher of Laboratory of Tectonophysics of the Institute of Earth’s Crust of SB RAS, Ph.D. in Geological and Mineralogical Sciences Oksana Lunina becomes a heroine of our newspaper.
	WHEN IN TEAM, THE WORK GOES ON Nadezhda Viktorovna Zorina - Senior Researcher of the A.E.Favorsky Irkutsk Institute of Chemistry of SB RAS, Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences has become in 2011 the Laureate of Academician Vorozhtsov Award.
	PROFESSIONALISM AND CHARM OF PATENT SPECIALISTS OF THE CHINAKAL INSTITUTE OF MINING OF SB RAS On the eve of spring holiday on March 8, we want to introduce you to the amazing women who care about the development and protection of intellectual property, thus supporting the glory of the Institute.
	LIBRARIAN IS A WOMEN'S PROFESSION Many residents of Academgorodok are familiar with this small building, standing a little apart from the main streets, deep in the yard at the Zolotodolinskaya Street. Library of the Joint Committee of Trade Union of the Novosibirsk Scientific Center, having marked its 45th anniversary last year, is without exaggeration, the point of attraction, acculturating people from the early years of life.
	WOMEN OF THE NORTH The eighth of March in the tundra does not differ much from March the seventh. The day has become a few minutes longer, the almost imperceptible scent of spring has become a little more noticeable. As for the rest, for Woman this day is full of same concerns as any other day.
	PORTRAITS OF FAMOUS WOMEN

	IT IS NECESSARY TO SAVE MINORITY LANGUAGES The issue relating to preservation of languages and ethnic groups in a changing world has been discussed at the “Meetings at Vertkovsky” television program broadcast on February 21, the International Mother Language Day.
	VALUABLE TIPS FOR SCIENTIFIC YOUTH Council of Young Scientists of the Institute of General and Experimental Biology of SB RAS has held a scientific seminar presenting a guidance booklet “To help a young scientist”.
	NANOMATERIALS MADE OF BERYLLIUM Specialists of the Tomsk Polytechnic University will be involved in researches on the development of nanomaterials made of beryllium - composites and ceramics.
	COMPETITION “MY NANOWORLD-2012” The All Russian Competition of computer presentations on nanotechnologies, “My Nanoworld-2012” for school children of our country for the third time already will be hosted by the Tomsk Polytechnic University.
	AT THE PRESIDIUM OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
	VACANCIES
	IN MEMORIAM Elena Aleksandrovna Godovikova