There were national dishes from 21 different countries prepared for this year’s International Dinner. The bill of fare offered for the students at the traditional gastronomical feast included specialties from Azerbaijan, Mexico, and India, in addition to the staples of Hungarian cuisine.
The Department of German Studies is to hold this year’s German Majors’ Week (GMW) in cooperation with German Cultural Forum of Debrecen by introducing a series of lighter and non-scholastic functions into the range of professional and academic events arranged with the proverbial German precision.
The event called International Food Day is going to be held at the University of Debrecen a week later than originally planned, on May 5th. The scheduling has been changed due to the unfavorable weather conditions forecast for the end of April.
Medicor Kéziműszer Zrt. [Medicor Hand Instrument Ltd.] regularly offers free state-of-the-art medical instruments to aid the program of first-year students of medicine and dentistry at the University of Debrecen. This year, the students received as many as 646 practicing sets of hand instruments.
A discovery of key importance has been made by researchers of the UD during the course of investigating gene regulators that are responsible for various types of cancer among other things. Their findings have also appeared in the prestigious publishing house of Oxford University Press.
International student at UD Magal Deutsch, who treks around Nagyerdő [Big Forest] and its surroundings by dogsled, has attracted a lot of attention lately. The student who is a lover of dog sports has been featured in a number of newspaper articles and television programs in Hungary.
Increased dormitory capacity and internationally acclaimed high standards are the catch phrases that describe the seven-year dorm development program launched at the University of Debrecen, in the framework of which a brand new dormitory and more than 200 new rooms will have been constructed by 2023
Exchange students who had spent the autumn semester at the University of Debrecen decorated the traditional Erasmus Christmas tree in the Main Building and said goodbye to one another and to the university at a festive dinner.
Seventy-one would-be physicians took their oaths on Saturday at the graduation ceremony of the University of Debrecen. Two Hungarian and two international students received their diplomas with summa cum laud grades.
A “Medallion of Excellence” was awarded at Europe’s largest skills competition to two of our students from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Debrecen, Dávid Balázs and Krisztián Zilahi.
In addition to national dishes from abroad, like cottage pie, tortilla patata, and gazpacho, Hungarian fasírt [appr.: meat loaf] and somlói [chocolate sponge cake] were also on the bill of fare at this year’s International Dinner.
As part of a joint international effort, the activities in the framework of what is called SocialErasmus Week were held this fall simultaneously in as many as 38 countries altogether. The University of Debrecen did not miss the chance to take part in this social initiative this time either.