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• Not a New Format, but a New Form of Communication: ITMO Teaching Staff on Distance Learning

  …ment, especially during theoretical lectures; monitoring the quality of classes; and teaching to mixed-language groups. “One effective solution we’ve found for challenges prompted by distance learning is the risk management funnel – at the beginning of a course, we draw up a plan of where we want to be by its end. This way, students always have some sort of guid…

  29.07.2020

• Neurotechnologies and Software Engineering Master’s Program to Go Corporate and Open Two New Specializations

  …rsity,” says Natela Greylikh, CEO of Robotrack.  Robotrack is an official project of the National Technology Initiative, a state program for supporting the development of promising fields that are essential to the global economy in Russia.  The company group Brain Development LLC and Robotrack LLC work with support of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and…

  29.07.2020

• This Mostly-Stay-At-Home Weekend in St. Petersburg: More Parks

  … This park got its name in the 1840s, when it became the site of reclusive walks for nearby countryside dwellers. For instance, it is said that Ivan Turgenev, one of Russia’s prominent authors, and Vissarion Belinsky, a famous literary critic, were in the habit of holding long conversations as they strolled down the pine-lined paths. Those who lived in the city, how…

  29.07.2020

• ITMO Graduate Nikita Teplyakov on Working in Switzerland, Studying in the UK, and Breaking Stereotypes

  …rch as a Master’s student, too? I stayed in the same field, but moved slightly towards carbon nanostructures. Due to their lack of toxic elements, they are some of the most promising materials. Generally, we were interested in modeling the optical properties of such materials. Another question, which half of the thesis is dedicated to, is how we could produce the …

  28.07.2020

• Environmental-Monitoring Water Drones to Be Tested on St. Petersburg Rivers

  … American universities find potential partners in Europe, and, having decided to enter the Russian market, they chose ITMO University as one of the entry points. They are also promoting various businesses and startups in South America, where environmental issues and water quality control are very important. For one, the company already launched a project of smart tap…

  28.07.2020

• Path to Immortality: Old and New Ways to Fight Aging

  …rate immune response, resulting in the virus being eliminated by the immune system. But in elderly patients, the inflammatory response is hyperactive, which is why coronavirus prompts a severe inflammation that practically kills not only the virus, but all of lung tissue, as well. Oxidative stress is the increase in the number of free radicals within the cells. It…

  27.07.2020

• ‘Free From Sulfates, Phosphates, and Parabens’: What Is Chemophobia and How Is It Tackled at ITMO

  … a situation from my life: as a child, I wanted to become a doctor, but I was afraid of blood, syringes, and injections. This was the reason why I abandoned my dream. But this prompted the creation of the project for combating phobias, specifically chemophobia, because this topic hasn’t yet been sufficiently studied, even though it’s a very topical issue these days,”…

  24.07.2020

• Cities on the Moon, Villages on Mars: What's Stopping Us?

  …a specific impulse twice as powerful as the current chemical ones. However, both inventions were scrapped. Single-layer carbon nanotubes by the Russian company OCSiAL are a promising invention that could be used as a construction material. A year-long Chinese isolation experiment at the Lunars Palace facility. It was completed successfully in 2018. A crew of ei…

  24.07.2020

• Campbell’s Law: Why Smart Technologies Don’t Always Make Life Better

  …Scicomm Cocoa Talk series by ITMO University’s Center for Science Communication. In this article, you can find the key ideas mentioned at the lecture. Donald Campbell was a prominent American psychologist, sociologist, and methodologist. Throughout his scientific career, he was engaged in questions of social institutes’ assessment. In his key article, Assessing th…

  23.07.2020

• Mission Inboxible: How to Set Up a Successful Marketing Mailout

  …es an essential body of data on how best to organize your work. Email strategy: the main steps  An email strategy cannot exist in isolation from the general business promotion strategy. In other words, it’s crucial, from the very get go, to decide on a general business goal, the marketing tasks, and communication channels with the help of which these tasks …

  21.07.2020