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• 5 Science News Now

  …ass" technology could be utilized in eco-friendly windows, windshields, roof panes and building envelopes, absorbing light and heat in the winter and reflecting it away in the summer. The best part? It’s ten times cheaper than existing products.…

  11.03.2018

• Exchange Students from Brazil: 'They're Always Happy'

  …f winter and the start of spring“ says Mateus, “It's strange because to Russians, the seasons are really important; we don't have winter or spring where we live - every day is summer. They are happy because winter is over and this is really interesting for us.” “One thing I thought was kind of unusual,” explains Caio, “was that before burning the dolls, everyone…

  09.03.2018

• Climate Change: Future Challenges for Urban Scientists

  …a look at the climate conditions in St. Petersburg. According to the Köppen climate classification, St. Petersburg is located in the humid continental climate zone with a warm summer and a snowy winter; such climate is also called boreal. Its conceptual difference from the other types of climate is the seasonal snow cover. If we look at the other cities over one m…

  05.03.2018

• ITMO Students Develop VR Lecture Hall to Replace Onsite Education

  …n at ITMO University. In this case, it can be used for the Information Literacy course that is mandatory for all first-year Bachelor’s students; VR lessons will serve as short summaries of the basic lectures.   “Today our project has several foreign counterparts that we took inspiration from. For instance, there’s VR Speech - an English VR project on trainin…

  02.03.2018

• ITMO University’s Business Incubator Named Among World’s Best

  …h hardware and software projects create a minimum viable product (MVP), establish a business model, raise funding and enter the market; SumIT, which works in the format of a summer startup school. At SumIT, students learn about the intricacies of entrepreneurship in Russia and the opportunities for entering their product into the Russian market. Every year, UB…

  01.03.2018

• Russia by Rail: A First-Hand Experience

  …e top berths in the 4-bed section. The train had already been travelling for possibly days, and we got on around midnight; it was all dark and gloomy inside, yet, since it was summer, it was also stuffy. We spent the first half an hour sitting on the bottom bunk with our new “roomies”, waiting awkwardly for new passengers to board and for the train to head off. Once …

  23.02.2018

• Sberbank President Herman Gref: ”R&D That People Ridiculed Yesterday is Taking Over Markets Today”

  …pportunities and learn it while you’re at ITMO University. Also, use the opportunities to learn from large companies. For example, in May we will be accepting applications for summer student internships. Q&A: on changes in education Developing educational strategies is up to the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation. But my opinion is that, consid…

  22.02.2018

• App by ITMO Student will Help Vocational Schools Go Digital

  … their project in the regions. According to Yaroslav, vocational schools in Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Ekaterinburg have already shown interest in the system. By the middle of summer, the project’s authors aspire to collect comprehensive data from the system’s testing in St. Petersburg vocational schools and use it to demonstrate how exactly it helps to optimize the …

  22.02.2018

• From Equatorial Guinea to Russia

  …Office. Why did you decide to do your work placement there? Juan: I wanted to learn more about how the International Office is set up, so I decided to apply there. Over the summer I worked in a large company that manufactures cars: I was looking for a summer job, so I went to the director of the company and he offered me a job as a t…

  15.02.2018

• New Materials, Genes, And Crowd Management: Science Slam in St. Petersburg