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Two ITMO University Graduates Among Top 50 Famous People in St. Petersburg According to Sobaka.ru Magazine
…actors, philanthropists and writers, social activists and directors, bloggers and athletes – each year, we identify and celebrate the St. Petersburgers who made a big step or discovery in their field, thus changing the city for the better,” indicates the Sobaka.ru website. Among this year’s laureates are two ITMO University graduates: Ilya Chekh (nominated in t…
05.06.2020
Sometimes It’s Important Just to Talk: How Volunteers of #WeAreTogether Initiative Help the Elderly During Self-Isolation
…. Every shift begins with visits to shops and pharmacies. This allowed me to learn a lot of things about economizing – sometimes our team conversations start with news about discounts and offers on food products. #WeAreTogether doesn’t only mean offering help to those who need it, it also involves unique places and people I’d never meet under other circumstances…
03.06.2020
AR Technologies at Home: FASTEP Startup Team on Easy-to-Understand Manuals for Household Appliances
…nd user. Therefore, users feel like they’ve been tricked because they paid money for a purportedly sizable functionality which in the end they don’t get to use. But this is a misconception, since the appliances do in fact have all the declared functions but are too complex to operate. Customers don’t see the advantages they have paid for, and manufacturers and retail…
03.06.2020
Science Communication, Digital Humanities, and Art & Science: Master’s Programs at ITMO’s Institute of International Development and Partnership.
…es or research groups create startups, scientists move from academia to the industry and back, joint academic and business projects emerge. The conventional idea that science discovers, technology applies, and the industry makes is no longer applicable, as these processes have mixed and fused. And that must be studied,” he explains. Students of the program a…
29.05.2020
Song of the Month: May 2020
…ut the window, nothing gets my spirits up quite like the ethereal bop that is their Dream in Colour. The band’s speciality is a deliciously primal, yet modern take on disco and funk – and isn’t a bit of funk just the thing we all need these days? And a special mention to Grin and Bear It, a Marvin Gaye-esque anthem to not keeping it all in. …
29.05.2020
Master’s Studies at ITMO’s Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations: An Overview
…ure a personalized trajectory of professional and personal growth for each and every one of our students. It’s very important for us that our students have the opportunity to discover firsthand the applicability of the skills they are taught and to feel part of the effort to solve global problems humanity faces in the form of research work or the creation of their ow…
28.05.2020
Prithu Roy: Desire to Be Part of a Unique Experience Brought Me Here
…now that ITMO’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering provides some state-of-the-art courses, i.e. you don’t learn just from the book, but from research papers or the person who discovered a particular subject. The things we study and experiments we do are sometimes so advanced that they are done only by a few research groups in the world. The desire to be part of that …
28.05.2020
This Stay-At-Home Weekend in St. Petersburg: More Theater & Opera Performances
…mall Swiss village are celebrating the forthcoming marriage of the orphan Amina and the wealthy farmer Elvino. Just as the celebrations are about to proceed, though, Amina is discovered – by the entire village no less – asleep in the bedroom of a stranger, and it takes her fiancé two acts to figure out that sleepwalking is to blame. The excellent 2009 product…
27.05.2020
Love Your Sofa Like a Russian
… past week, Russian Twitter has been taken over by a “sofa” flash mob. Having bonded with their own sofa for a while now, people google their name + a word “диван” (sofa) and discover what kind of couch they could have been (or maybe still can). Apparently it just so happens that many sofas in Russia have popular male and female names in their description, so mo…
25.05.2020
White Nights in St. Petersburg
…ther Russian literary superstar – Fyodor Dostoevsky – has even inspired not one, not two, but nine film adaptations in the past 70 years! The most famous of them all, Luchino Visconti’s Le notti bianche from 1957 is a film classic that has since received a high-def Criterion release – so there’s no excuse not to give it a watch. The setting might no longer be Russian…
22.05.2020