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How To Overcome Fear and Appreciate Viruses: Staying With the Trouble Exhibition at AIR Gallery
Starting from March 12, Art.ITMO.Residency presents an exhibition of world-renowned artists, for many of whom it is the first time they present their works in Russia. Visitors will also have the chance to see a new project by Heather Dewey-Hagborg, the famous American bioartist.
15.03.2021
ITMO Students Release Clubhouse App on Google Play
The developers claim that their client of the popular social media platform is 40% more efficient than any previous versions. Moreover, its users no longer have to worry about possible blocking and data leaks. Here’s everything you need to know about the app and its features.
11.03.2021
ITMO in Top-Three of Potanin Foundation Scholarship Contest
Almost 60 ITMO University students have received this year’s Potanin Foundation Scholarship. Thus, the university came third behind St. Petersburg State University and Lomonosov Moscow State University. The students will receive a monthly stipend of 25,000 rubles until the end of their Master’s studies. We talked to the winners about their achievements in research and beyond, discussed the qualities that helped them seize victory, and asked them for advice to anyone wishing to take part in the contest next year.
10.03.2021
ITMO Master’s Student Tatiana Statsenko on Internship Abroad During COVID-19
Tatiana Statsenko, a second-year Master’s student at ITMO’s ChemBio Cluster, has recently spent a month and a half doing an internship in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia. There, together with her colleagues from the Saints Cyril and Methodius University, she explored the synthesis of perovskite nanocrystals. ITMO.NEWS talked to Tatiana to learn more about her work, internship, and experience of living abroad during the pandemic.
09.03.2021
Smart Light: ITMO Researchers and Students Create Lighting System That Adapts to How Its Users Feel
Authors of the project study the way the level of illumination and different color temperatures affect people’s emotional state and productivity. Based on a series of experiments, the researchers will create an adaptive system that will accommodate the working cycles of several people in one room.
04.03.2021
QS WUR by Subject 2021: ITMO Debuts Among Top 100 Universities in Computer Science
The British educational analytics company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has published its latest subject rankings of the world’s universities. This year, ITMO University has moved up in several categories – including computer science, mathematics, and chemistry.
04.03.2021
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 6-7, 2021
Happy spring! We hope you are excited to bask in the first shy sunlight of March – we know we certainly are. To maintain this joy of life, let’s make some plans for the weekend, shall we? Two exhibitions, a book festival, and an immersive audio tour – there is no place for boredom here!
03.03.2021
ITMO Highpark’s Project Receives Positive Assessment
The project of the second campus of ITMO University based on the research, education, and innovation center ITMO Highpark located in the satellite city Yuzhny was positively assessed by the State Expertise Center.
02.03.2021
Mind-Blowing Research of the Month: Brain-Computer Interfaces
At least once in our lives, we’ve all wished we could read minds or control the objects around us by merely thinking about them. So far, the technology that came closest to getting us there is BCI – brain-computer interfaces. Read on to learn what they are and how they work – and whether or not we are to expect mind-reading devices any time soon.
02.03.2021
ITMO PhD Student Anna Mikhailovskaya Receives IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship
Anna Mikhailovskaya, a PhD student at ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering, received a graduate fellowship of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society in the category Medical Application. It’s the first time the award was given to a Russian scientist.
01.03.2021