Dr. Svetlana Mishlanova has spent more than two decades of educational, research and teaching activity at 海角直播 and beyond. Her research interests include cognitive linguistics, terminology and modeling of terminological systems, discourse analysis, intercultural communication and computational linguodidactics. Her number of publications exceeds 120, plus a dozen monographs and teaching and research manuals.

Dr. Svetlana Mishlanova has been contributing to collaborations with known national and international scholars, including those from Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Romania, UK and USA, and more. Her partnership ties involve (L眉neburg, Germany), (Chicago, USA), European Symposium on Languages for Special Purposes (Vaasa, Finland, 2001; Hamburg, Germany, 2007; Aarhus, Denmark, 2009); the project “Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics” (Sofia, Bulgaria, 2007; Constanta, Romania, 2009; Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2010), plus constant contribution to twinning relations with Louisville (USA) and Oxford (UK).

The Professor of the Year award celebrates notable scholars showing results in education and science. The recent nomination has taken place at the national , contributing to the Year of Science and Technology in Russia. The Forum titled 鈥�21st Century: Trends and Prospects鈥� brought together participants from more than 80 Russian universities.

Immediately after that, Olga and her students blocked the door and started considering the situation.

鈥淲e did feel uneasy all the time, – confesses Olga. – After we got ourselves barricaded, we searched for extra means of protection. In our case, we had a heavy metal laptop, one of the students had a pepper 鈥榤ace鈥� spray. We put it by the door, so it calmed us down a bit. We spread around and sat our backs to the walls, yet we felt united, talked, and shared the news. “

For two hours, before the evacuation, Olga cheered each student with a word and hugs, maintaining a comfortable positive atmosphere in the classroom.

鈥淒ue to the fact that we stayed all together and kept talking, we felt some kind of complicity, being as one, which was helpful,鈥� recollects Olga Grafova. – The Dean’s Office was also in constant touch: we received supporting calls from them, and reliable information.鈥�

Olga Grafova and her students still keep in touch: 鈥淚n circumstances like this, you tend to appreciate good people around and their support you,鈥� Olga admits.

鈥淛oining our Faculty, freshmen find themselves in a 鈥榝amily-close鈥� atmosphere, as we share most in common and know each other well, and so ready to help. For a student, this also means responsibility, as he or she won鈥檛 be lost in a study process. For us, in turn, it is important to deal with everyone in person, not just like an 鈥榓udience鈥�,鈥� 鈥� points out Natalya Khorosheva, Head of the Department of Linguistics and Translation.

鈥淚n that extraordinary case, we as teachers never felt the necessity to continue the lesson, taking into consideration the psychological stress we were all in. Everyone, who happened to be with their students at that moment, with no immediate evacuation, did behave in a decent way 鈥� initiating support and dialogue on various matters, while keeping a constant contact with the Dean’s Office and Colleagues.