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• Discovering the Student-Led Plant-Based Menu Initiative at ITMO

  This Tuesday, I ventured from ITMO’s Internationalization Office on our Lomonosova campus to discover the plant-based menu I had heard about at the ITMO cafeteria on Chaykovskogo Street. The initiative, introduced last year by ITMO’s Sustainable Development Club, is about to span the whole university, contributing to more eco-friendly and healthy food choices on campus. Here is what I managed to find out about it.

  16.09.2022

• Student Spotlight: Mishek Likola, Zambia

  At ITMO’s Foundation Program, international students can learn the basics of Russian language, history and culture to ensure a successful start of their Bachelor’s studies. This week, we talked to Mishek Likola, an international student from Zambia, who completed his Foundation Program at ITMO to go on to study software engineering at another university in St. Petersburg. Did St. Petersburg meet his expectations? And what is his best strategy for coping with the cold? Read on to find out.

  15.09.2022

• Faster, Bigger, Livelier – Notes From the 16th Bike Ride With the Rector

  The first in this academic year, but 16th overall – yesterday’s traditional Bike Ride with the Rector coincided luckily with the last day of a short Indian summer. The event brought together dozens of students, lecturers, and staff of ITMO University. Together, they traveled the customary route through Primorsky Victory Park and over Yakhtenny Bridge. Despite a busy schedule, the university’s Rector Vladimir Vasilyev led the event – and so did the staff of ITMO.NEWS. Here’s what we saw there.

  14.09.2022

• ITMO Scientists Discover Universal Measure to Predict Protein Folding

  Researchers from ITMO’s Infochemistry Scientific Center have suggested an algorithm that can calculate a molecule’s dimensionality – whether it’s 2D, 3D, or an intermediate state. Unlike other existing methods, the new one allows scientists to identify the folding state in biomolecules and track its progress. In an article published in Royal Society Open Science, the researchers described their molecular dynamics-based method and compared it to others, such as the Monte Carlo simulation and the widely used AlphaFold algorithm.

  14.09.2022

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: September 17-18, 2022

  Outside, the wind is blowing and the drizzle follows you everywhere, but let’s not let the weather affect our weekend plans. This week, everything’s in pairs: we’ve got two exhibitions, two concerts, and two new movie screenings. What will you pick?  

  14.09.2022

• Two ITMO Students Among Winners of the First Scholarship Program by Tinkoff

  This year Tinkoff company launched the first scholarship program for promising students of Russian universities. Out of 14,000 applicants, only 80 became winners. Among them are two ITMO students – Konstantin Baltsat and Gleb Demin from the Faculty of Infocommunication Technologies. We talked to them and found out what helped them succeed.

  13.09.2022

• ITMO’s Advanced Engineering School Welcomes Its First Students

  In September 2022, ITMO University’s Advanced Engineering School received its first class of 55 Master’s students. Over the next two years, they’ll combine their primary studies with classes in data-driven approach and team management, all to become accomplished principal engineers. Today, we look at the school’s educational process, its differences from conventional programs, and the students’ impressions so far.

  12.09.2022

• ITMO Researchers Suggest All-Optical Data Processing Method Using Heating

  Metal-organiс frameworks (MOFs) are a new class of compounds that is famous for its unique properties. They have been considered a functional material for gas adsorption, industrial membranes, and catalysts; however, researchers from ITMO have gone further and decided to zone in on MOFs’ optical properties. In a recent paper, they demonstrated that thanks to MOFs’ flexibility, these properties can be changed when subjected to lasers. This new effect can pave the way for all-optical data encoding, transfer, and storage.

  08.09.2022

• ITMO to Host It’s Your Call! Educational Forum

  On September 12-16, ITMO will host the It’s Your Call! educational forum for participants of the I Am a Professional contest. At the event, supported by Sberbank, students will be able to boost their soft and hard skills, as well as attend lectures hosted by representatives of tech companies.

  07.09.2022

• ITMO's Monday Science Roundup #13

  Welcome to the baker’s dozen installment of our bi-monthly news digest! In this overview of the latest happenings in science and research at ITMO, we’ll be looking at: promising new technologies, a new professional development initiative, and a dive into special relativity.

  05.09.2022