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• Vacation With a Purpose: Science Tourism and Citizen Science

  …get to participate in real expeditions under the guidance of experienced researchers, as well as immerse themselves into a particular research field. “Russian Travel Geek solves the problem via the symbiosis of science and travel. Scientists and science popularizers lead our expeditions, and tourists who join the project finance them. Scientists get access to th…

  06.08.2018

• Science Communicator Fred Balvert: 'For a Journalist, Geniuine Interest Matters More Than Knowledge'

  …ments for science communication, and why the society needs to sponsor that. They are asking: “What good is this to me?” A great deal of humanity’s global issues can only be solved by scientists. Without research we can’t tackle challenges related to climate change, waste recycling, or new functional materials. There’s an initiative in development in the European U…

  06.08.2018

• Building A New Generation of Drugs: SCAMT Laboratory Scientists On Rational Chemical Design Using Metal-Organic Frameworks

  … Simagina. The main advantage of the framework-based drug delivery systems is that they can make the delivery process much more controllable. Since framework materials dissolve very slowly, the drug is released in a much more graduate way. Moreover, the abundance of different carrier materials allows for choosing the safest and most stable structure for each ind…

  03.08.2018

• Hermitage, Football, and Lots of Programming: Summer Camp at ITMO

  …nce theory and practice. Participants not only get hands-on programming training, but also acquire valuable soft skills: teamwork, time management, organizational, and problem-solving skills. All of our interviewees came across the program in different ways. For Hassan B. Drammeh from The Gambia, it was a Facebook ad that got him interested. He was very impressed …

  02.08.2018

• The Results of Workshop Week at SCAMT Lab

  …ge of the study, we analyzed the physical and chemical characteristics of the material. Web is a great natural material and can be used in medicine for stitching wounds. It dissolves in the body, and the reason why we made it glow is that this lets us make sure that it has been dissolved. I study catalysis and the various reactions. …

  02.08.2018

• Preparing You For the Working World: Summer School in Singapore

  …, and several African countries came to Singapore in the middle of July to take part in the event. Among the things they were taught were critical thinking for complex problem solving, public speaking, negotiation techniques, as well as teamwork and leadership skills, and creative thinking. “What I found the most useful was a course on personal branding. Your pe…

  01.08.2018

• Island 10-21: Russian First Educational Program For Data Economy and NTI Specialists

  …hat offered a quick introduction to main digital subjects and tools, NTI and Data Economy projects teamwork, expert lectures, brainstorming clubs that used system thinking for solving creative scientific tasks and making forecasts, and X-labs that united Big Data, artificial intelligence, and blockchain specialists in project work in the fields of new and portable en…

  31.07.2018

• Go Green in the City: ITMO Team Wins Regional Stage of Eco-Friendly Competition

• Interning in New York, Working in Berlin: ITMO Graduate Victoria Gorelkina On Her International Experience

  …hed scientific papers, but I focused on the portfolio as I believe that real practical experience is more valuable. My advantages were my technical education and creative task-solving approach which lends from my Physics and Design skills and is therefore quite rare to find. There are no set rules for creating a portfolio; the only regulation is that it has to consis…

  30.07.2018

• St. Petersburg Hosts 4th VK Fest

  …st misclick. If a failure occurs that affects many users, you can expect dozens of users to contact the support over the same issue. It’s only logical that once the issue is resolved, all users should be contacted all at once. Still, mistakes happen. In 2014, an agent responding to several dozen users mixed up the text and sent everyone a message about a “cool car” h…

  30.07.2018