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• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: February 8-9, 2020

  …ist gained popularity thanks to his art objects on topical social issues, which form a retrospective part of the display. There will also be exclusive installations created specifically for the exhibition and a collection of photos of the Parnas district inhabitants. All this will be accompanied with lectures on street art through the lens of philosophy.  “A Symph…

  05.02.2020

• The Art of Managing the University of the Future: A Roundtable on Effective University Governance Held in St. Petersburg

  …tive discussions and brainstorming; the work of the deans, directors of schools, and heads of departments; and the work of project groups formed on an ad hoc basis to solve specific tasks. The project groups, it has to be noted, aren’t always overseen by the rector, vice rectors or deans. The leadership’s role here is only to correctly assemble these groups – …

  05.02.2020

• Active Learning: 7 Ways to Increase Students’ Motivation and Engagement

  …s. The main idea behind such work is in giving a student the opportunity to find something that they would be eager to grasp and that would be close to their interests in a specific subject field. This is especially important for Master’s students: for example, their practical projects can pertain to the area of their specific skillset …

  05.02.2020

• Spend Your Evening at Home Like a Russian

  …gia and focus on some traditional Russian pastimes! Let’s start with individual activities. In this sense, you can't really say that there are many things to do that are specifically Russian, but if it’s getting to know the Russian culture that we’re talking about, then you’re safe with choosing to read some Russian literature or try cooking some traditional Russi…

  05.02.2020

• The Work of a Lighting Designer: Creating Magic on Concerts and Fashion Shows

  …ng. The lighting designer presents a detailed technical blueprint of the set along with the programming and visualization. They also create a setup schedule and performance specifications for every working group.   The equipment. Next, the lighting designer creates a blueprint for the lighting company, marking the points of support, cable lengths, the positions of …

  04.02.2020

• ITMO University Scientist Sergey Makarov Receives President of Russia Award

  …onic tasks. The scientists’ development has already been implemented and patented. “When we proposed working with semiconductor nanoparticles, we discovered that under specific conditions, they are able to emit white light, which is extremely bright due to the resonances so we jokingly called them ‘nanolamps’. Why are they interesting? The fact is that white lig…

  03.02.2020

• Besting Elon Musk at Memristors and Making a Vascular System Model to End Animal Testing: Results of SCAMT Workshop Week

  …hese in total,” says Polina Khapaeva, SCAMT’s director for development. “In a week’s worth of work, they obtain not only theoretical knowledge but also, most importantly, a specific practical result: a nanopharmaceutical drug, a model of the vascular system and so on. The project incorporates the technologies currently being implemented at SCAMT. Of course, these are…

  28.01.2020

• Bioinformatics Specialist Alexey Komissarov on Gaps in Genomic Studies and Plans to Close Them

  … number of studies encounter the limitation related to the lack of river lamprey genome. Now, a method has been developed that allows you to see what is transcribed in each specific cell – this is the single-cell RNA-seq method. This will provide revolutionary data on the functioning of the nervous system as a whole and its regeneration in particular. But in order to…

  27.01.2020

• FAQ: Registering Ownership And Protecting Intellectual Property

  …tly, it stops being protected. Thus, an ideal case would be a balance between the two: you patent something in a way that is impossible to reproduce without knowing certain specific details, which you then preserve as a know-how.  How can I protect the intellectual property of my lab and the university in general when negotiating an industrial contract? Ana…

  24.01.2020

• ITMO Scientists and Mariinskaya Hospital Specialists Are Developing a New Thrombolytic Drug

  …ther vessels? Without answers to these questions, we simply can’t carry out, let alone expand on, our research. There could also be contraindications – diseases or other specific conditions that wouldn’t allow for the drug to be used. All this requires careful consideration. That’s why we can’t yet say that we’ve invented a panacea that could be used starting from…

  23.01.2020