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• Chantal Tracey on Life at SCAMT

  …ussia Science and Technology Cooperation Center (KORUSTEC), I had a chance to visit laboratories in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Novosibirsk. Sometimes, I was shocked that some institutes don't have modern equipment for scientists. So I came to SCAMT Institute (Solution Chemistry of Advanced Materials and Technologies) — one of the most …

  12.04.2021

• Three Modern Russian Books to Read This Month

  …ul experiment and then wakes up in a St. Petersburg hospital in 1999 to start his life anew. The Aviator is, first and foremost, a great piece of writing. Secondly, it contains a surprisingly intriguing story, which sounds confusing at first. It’s something like Futurama but in post-soviet St. Petersburg. Eugene Vodolazkin once again proved that he is enormously t…

  09.04.2021

• Three Books to Read This Month: March 2021

  …author, and Winter Ice is a book written for teenagers. Perhaps that’s what makes the novel the way it is; despite touching upon difficult and thought-provoking topics, it remains light and hopeful. For Winter Ice, Peter van Gestel received (among other prizes) the Golden Stylus — the Netherlands' highest award for writers of children’s and young adult literature.…

  26.03.2021

• Keyboards Out: Online Exams During the Pandemic

  …in an online exam. At first glance it might seem that in an open book exam, there is no query of knowledge since it seems that you do not have to know anything by heart and instead simply have to know where the information can be found in the notes or presentations. However, that was not true at all for my exam, since the focus of the exam was not on the mere repr…

  01.03.2021

• Ammar Ali on Life at the Computer Tech Lab

  …op to teach it to identify dangerous states. For example, I can teach the model to see that the driver doesn't have a seat belt on. I want to make sure that when our device is installed in the car, it will inform the driver if there is something wrong." I also asked Ammar about the differences in education between Syria and Russia that he had noticed. It …

  26.01.2021

• CARE-LAB: Boosting International Collaboration While Doing Good

  …m, France, Spain, UK, Russia), spice it up with a hot topic and you will get Facing COVID: CARE-LAB, a well-seasoned workshop where students can cook up plans for suitable and inspiring residences for the elderly. Usually, ITMO’s European office in Brussels deals with Erasmus+ physical mobility projects, partnering with universities all over Europe. But for th…

  11.12.2020

• Studying in Germany on Russian Time

  …ear ago. Now, students all around the world are very familiar and used to digital learning from home. For some, a dream came true — they can half-listen the professor who explains a complicated material to them while wearing their pajamas, and making their first cup of tea or coffee. However, it can also be quite frustrating when you only meet lecturers and fellow st…

  09.12.2020

• Yali Sun on Life at the Optical Laboratory

  …a lot of people don't know this university and laboratory. It is so good but no one knows about it. Now, each semester there are exchange programs between ITMO and HUST," explains Yali. Her supervisor at that time encouraged her to complete her PhD at ITMO and continue her research in the field of optical properties and applications of hybrid metal-dielectric nanos…

  01.12.2020

• My Experience of Attending the BioPrint Workshop Remotely

  …ed by the talk of Dr. Leonid Ionov from University of Bayreuth, Germany who showed us how biomaterials fold under certain conditions like change in pH and temperature. He took inspiration from nature and developed biomaterials which can achieve numerous shapes and sizes in-vivo. A technology such as this one would find immense applications in the medical industry as …

  13.11.2020

• Going on Exchange During the Pandemic

  …eks, and then, when I had lost all my hopes, I got an email: you can pick up your passport on weekdays from 10 am till noon. When I got my passport with a freshly painted visa inside, I also got a paper that said: this visa does not guarantee entrance to the country, the decision will be made by the border control services of the Republic of Germany. Cool, so I can g…

  10.11.2020