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The films of the faculty members and students of the Schools of Arts (University of Nova Gorica) have once again achieved success at the 19th Festival of Slovenian Film.

On Monday, 12 September, the 324th symposium of the International Astronomical Union began at Cankarjev dom in Ljubljana. The symposium titled "New Frontiers in Black Hole Astrophysics" is hosted by the University of Nova Gorica.

A long-time faculty member of the School of Arts at the University of Nova Gorica, Professor Rajko Grlić was given the main award at the Montreal film festival for his film “The Constitution of the Republic of Croatia”.

JOSEPH F. SUTTER (Mar. 21, 1921 - Aug. 30, 2016)

At the 100th anniversary since black holes were first postulated to exist, the University of Nova Gorica received the honour of organizing the first major meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Slovenia, titled: “New Frontiers in Black Hole Astrophysics”.

PROF. DR. JAMES WATSON CRONIN (Sep. 29, 1931 - Aug. 25, 2016)

On Friday, 26 August, 2016, Prof. Dr. Rainer Klump, the President of the Luxembourg University visited the University of Nova Gorica.

PROF. DR. GREGOR KOCIJAN (Jun. 9, 1933 - Aug. 10, 2016)

The scientists of University of Nova Gorica accomplished experiments, which conducted to an article in Nature Nanotechnology

The French President Francoise Hollande awarded Dr. Evgen Bavčar (Honorary Doctor of the University of Nova Gorica) the highest French civilian honor – the Knight of the Legion of Honor.

Scientists from The University of Nova Gorica are at the top of world’s research in the field of organic electronics

When quality, not only the number of students, counts. The latest international Round University Ranking system (RUR) considers the University of Nova Gorica best university in Slovenia and ranks it among the leading world universities.

Today’s courtesy call at the University of Nova Gorica was centred around the visit of Japanese Ambassador, his Excellency Keijita Fekudo and Mr. Yoshiaki Makino, the Head of the Department for economy and political matters.

At yesterday’s award ceremony titled Generations the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts – ZRC SAZU - gave away awards for scientific achievements in the field social studies and humanities in 2015.

On Wednesday, 20 April 2016, the ceremony in the honour of promotion of new European Talent Points took place at the Centre for Research and Promotion of Giftedness – CRSN, Faculty of Education of the University of Ljubljana.

The University of Nova Gorica (UNG) has been a part of the global university ranking program called »U-Multirank« since the very beginning of this European project. This year’s results of the comparative rankings of different universities from all over the world (»U-Multirank 2016«), published on the website www.umultirank.org, show that UNG’s results are high above average, within the global university chart (Same exceptional results were obtained by UNG also in the last year’s »U-Multirank 2015« comparisons of universities.).

Today, the University of Nova Gorica hosted the President of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Prof. Dr. Jörg Steinbach. He was accompanied by the German Ambassador in Slovenia, her Excellency Dr. Anna Elisabeth Prinz.

On Thursday, 31 March, 2016, President of the Republic of Slovenia, Borut Pahor, awarded a special order of merit to a group of Slovene scientists at a ceremony in the Presidential palace. These are scientists who are part of the Atlas experiment at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics CERN in Switzerland. They received the award for their top achievements in the fields of experimental particle physics and technological development as well as for their contribution to the recognizability of Slovene science in the international sphere.

The University of Nova Gorica is the first higher education institution in Slovenia to have joined the initiative European Universities for an Open World, launched by the European University Association.

At the Gourmand Best in the World Competition, the book “Burek: A Culinary Metaphor,” which is a revised version of Dr. Jernej Mlekuž’s dissertation, was chosen as the winning Slovene book and became one of the finalists in the Best Food Writing Book category.