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• Vaccines: Everything You Need to Know

  …What is a vaccine A vaccine is the introduction of a certain specimen into the human body with the goal of fostering immunity to that specimen. Immunity can be specific and non-specific, the latter being the kind that babies are born with. Non-specific immunity is what allows them to survive once their …

  09.09.2019

• ITMO University Lands in Diamond League of First RUR Ranking of Russian Universities

  …The Round University Ranking (RUR), published for the past ten years by the RUR Rankings Agency, began to publish country-specific rankings in 2019. In the first year of this initiative, 12 local rankings are planned to be published. The assessment system has remained similar to the global ranking: the list is put together based on indicators distributed into four ar…

  09.09.2019

• Student Orientation and Meetings with Scientists: ITMO Introduction Days

  …ction Days, adapters met their group and traveled through different stations of the event together.  All in all, the event included six stations, each dedicated to a specific topic: Teambuilding (which included a getting to know each other activities for students); Science (covering what kinds of research and development are conducted at the university…

  04.09.2019

• Science Conference for New Generation: International Sol-Gel Conference Starts at ITMO University

  … of sol-gel technologies. The conference’s participants will be able to practice science communication as part of Science Slam, a new format where scientists present the specifics of their research during ten-minute presentations that resemble stand-up comedy gigs. Several slams have already been held in St. Petersburg, including, inter alia, participants from ITM…

  27.08.2019

• Speak Like a Russian: of Time and Deadlines

  …Remember you promised me to …” - “Минуточку! I don’t remember promising you anything”. Deadlines can be even a greater issue. Though you shouldn’t have any problems with specific ones (you can always google the words for days and months, or ask them to be written down in digits), there are many expressions that can be extremely misleading. На неделе (literally …

  26.08.2019

• Russian and Swedish Scientists Work Together on New Biomedical Product

  …f biomaterials in real-time mode. The developed material can pave the way to modern biomedical technologies, the authors of the study add. An insectarium was created specifically for the research and development of new materials at SCAMT laboratory; about 60 spiders of two species, Linothele fallax and Holothele incei, live there. As the researchers explain, t…

  23.08.2019

• Russian Language Summer School: Behind the Curtain

  …he focuses on practicing their Russian language skills through multiple spoken tasks, helping to strengthen their knowledge while learning new structures. Each lesson has a specific topic that she concentrates on teaching efficiently to students.  The courses are built to help students to develop and practice their language skills no matter what their initial leve…

  22.08.2019

• Summer School in Finland: Accessible Design and Technologies

  …on the autistic spectrum, and others. The next year’s course is planned to be more practice-oriented, so that all participants would engage in collective work on bringing a specific project to life. What I consider to be my special achievement on this course is that I managed to personally discuss our development with the lecturers: they turned out to be very …

  20.08.2019

• ITMO Students and Staff Take Part in Startup Festival *ship

  …do, like brushing their teeth or going to bed. It uses elements of artificial intelligence and connects to a server in order to determine the best course of action for each specific situation. Ilya Ardabyevskiy, student at the Faculty of Applied Optics I volunteered at several international conferences and forums held at ITMO University in the past academic yea…

  16.08.2019

• ITMO and Moscow State University Scientists Announce an Open Call for a Joint Article Series for Frontiers in Chemistry

  …r consideration; the only requirement is for it to revolve around either chemical elements or the periodic table itself. The application process is also simple, lacking any specific template to base an article on. The deadline for submitting your abstract is September 16, 2019, and January 15, 2020 for the finished article.  The original idea was proposed by a gro…

  16.08.2019