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• This Stay-at-Home Weekend in St. Petersburg: Using Online Opportunities

  Another weekend is right around the corner, which means we’re already here to equip you with ideas on how best to spend it in the safety and comfort of your home. 

  20.05.2020

• Our Ideas for Dealing with Social Distancing

  While permanently staying at home was, for some of the introverts among us, a long-held dream, it is now a reality for nearly everyone and is starting to become the norm – as much as anything can be “normal” today. It turns out that self-isolation isn’t as easy as it may seem; that’s why we’re learning new tricks, tweaking age-old habits, and trying to enjoy this strange time as best we can.

  19.05.2020

• Keep Off the Grass! What Are Desire Paths and What We Can Learn From Them?

  Why are desire paths a problem? What happens inside a pedestrian’s mind: why do they break the rules and why can’t paths just be designed “conveniently”? A lecture on urban development was held as part of the online Institute of Design & Urban Studies (IDUS) open days. Steve Kuddins, a staff member of IDUS, explained the origins of desire paths and what we can do to prevent them. Read on to learn the main takeaways of the lecture. 

  18.05.2020

• Portable Lab: ITMO Master’s Student On Developing a New Chemiluminescence Sensor

  A research group headed by Ksenia Kirichek has won a grant in the competition of practice-oriented R&D projects to develop a chemiluminescence sensor. The device will help detect early stages of heart attacks, diabetes and oxidative stress. Read on to learn how this new device is different from those currently on the market, what’s the technology behind it and what are its prospective applications. 

  15.05.2020

• Movie Fridays: New Releases

  Quarantine got your watchlist dwindling? Here’s an assortment of noteworthy new releases to replenish your supplies!

  15.05.2020

• Emina Iskhakova: Just Choose What You Like and Do It

  Coming from Central Asia, from sunny Uzbekistan, Emina Iskhakova is currently in her first year in the Intelligent Systems in Humanities program at ITMO where she focuses on studying the methods of collecting and processing Big Data.  

  14.05.2020

• What It's Like to Get Your Master's in Photonics at ITMO University

  If IT is the industry of today, then photonics is the industry of the future. But why? And what Master's programs in this field does ITMO University offer its students? Where do its students build their careers? And why do students here do research from the very start? Find out in this illustrated series!

  13.05.2020

• This Stay-at-Home Weekend in St. Petersburg: Creativity Galore

  Bored in quarantine? Here are some activities to get creative and have fun while you’re at it!

  13.05.2020

• ITMO University Reinforces Positions in Diamond League of RUR Ranking of Russian Universities

  Two weeks ago, the RUR Rankings Agency published its World University Rankings, in which ITMO University took 360th place, landing in the Bronze League. Today, on May 13, results have been announced of RUR’s country-specific edition, with the Russian ranking listing 82 universities divided in four leagues based on the amount of points they scored. As last year, ITMO University has made it to the top of the list – the Diamond League.

  13.05.2020

• First Phase of ITMO Highpark Unveiled to St. Petersburg Government

  A council of the St. Petersburg Government has reviewed the project of ITMO University’s second campus, which will be located in the satellite city Yuzhny, a part of the city’s Pushkinsky District. Vladimir Vasilyev, ITMO University’s Rector, and Daria Kozlova, its First Vice Rector, took part in the online video conference. According to the project, ITMO University’s second campus will make efficient use of social contact by providing a unified environment for studies, research, and living.  

  12.05.2020