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• Hult Prize On Campus 2020: Results, Participants, and Projects

  … I am proud that young people are full of great ideas and eager to solve real-world problems,” comments Elena Karlysheva, the board expert, brand director of Konica Japan, top manager of Teremok, and founder of the All Together and LAVASH restaurant chain. Elena Karlysheva advised young people who also plan to develop socially significant projects not to be afra…

  15.12.2020

• ITMO University Student Wins One Million Rubles at Sberbank Competition

  … we do and how. Even if you try to take a risk, no one will scold you if it does not work out. It's a very cool place as you can grow a lot here as a specialist. Do you manage to combine work and studies? Probably, distance learning made it easier, did it? Actually, distance learning is a controversial topic. I know many students who now are even more chall…

  14.12.2020

• Researcher Daria Martynova on the Connection Between Art and Medicine

  …icipates in research at the Higher School of Economics and the State Institute for Art Studies. ITMO.NEWS met with Daria Martynova to learn more about her projects, how she manages to work at a tech university and study art, as well as why a museum in Copenhagen exhibits blood samples of every Danish citizen. About the major My research focuses on the re…

  09.12.2020

• FoodTech Master’s Program Head Olesya Volokh: Food Is Always in Fashion

  …tructural biology – the subject are transcription systems within cells and how they work. You were also able to build a career in the industry at the same time. How did you manage that? In my fourth year, I was looking for a summer job and ended up at the clinical research department of the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline. At the time, my work didn’t act…

  03.12.2020

• Best Projects by Participants of Online School by ITMO Avatar Developers

  …ent started on such an assistant — dubbed ITMO Avatar — for members of the ITMO.FAMILY. The assistant is based on a digital avatar platform that enables the integration and management of various digital services by different developers: from calendars and time management systems to recommendation systems. In late November, the…

  02.12.2020

• Soft Skills: What Are They and Why Do We Need Them?

  …ls? If I become a proper scientist or engineer, I’ll be able to get a job without them. Knowing your profession is very important, but it’s far from all. If you can’t manage relationships within your team, every issue will turn into a lengthy argument and neither you nor your colleagues will enjoy any of it. Sometimes it’s important not only to have the righ…

  02.12.2020

• To Fear or Not to Fear: Psychologist Alexander Palin on the Nature of Phobias

  … and then forms our emotional response. Therefore, modern clinical psychotherapy works with our thinking patterns. Emotions are important too, but cognitive skills help people manage their fears better. Let's take a look at some of the approaches used in psychotherapy: Systematic desensitization is a type of behavior therapy that helps people build persistence.…

  02.12.2020

• ITMO University Debuts in Five RAEX Subject Rankings

  …owed by Tomsk Polytechnic University). The university was also ranked among the top 10 in the following rankings: Mathematics, Engineering and Technology, and Economics and Management. “These are the first subject rankings compiled by RAEX; their general ranking has been published for the ninth time already, and in it ITMO was rated 13th among Russia’s top un…

  01.12.2020

• Rukami Fest 2020: ITMO’s TECHNOHISTORY Project Highlights Digital Loneliness and Bacteria Representation in Media

  …oing a project on biohacking and how it helps treat certain illnesses or, in the wrong hands, provoke them,” says Daria Martynova, an assistant at the Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations. “Other students did a project on artificial skin and its use in art. Finally, another student went with a purely historical and cultural study on the evolution of th…

  27.11.2020

• Beneath the Pavement, Not the Beach: First Art & Science Conference on Soil

  …al sites of nuclear waste. While observing the deserted areas, they realized that the situation was to nature's benefit – even despite the massive havoc caused by humans, they manage to self-heal. The project’s authors called such natural objects Pharmakon Landscapes – both poisonous and healing. They can no longer be used for our own needs but can become a so…

  27.11.2020