Since last year, the Professor Boris Alexandrovich Kalin scholarship has been funded from the targeted endowment. The scholarship aims to develop the scientific potential of Department No. 9, attract talented young people to materials science, and support and encourage the department’s best students. In 2024, the scholarship was awarded to 3 master’s students studying “Materials Science and Technology of Materials”.
Today, the scholarship fund has already reached 3 million rubles per year, so from 2025 the eligible categories of applicants and the number of scholarship recipients will be expanded.
Since 2023, a targeted endowment for developing the scientific potential of Department of Physical Problems of Materials Science No. 9 has been established as part of the NRNU MEPhI Endowment Fund, which currently amounts to 33.2 million rubles. The endowment is named in honour of Boris Alexandrovich Kalin — DSc (Phys.-Math.), Professor, Head of Department No. 9 from 1984 to 2021, Honoured Scientist of the Russian Federation, and Honoured Worker of Higher Education of the Russian Federation.