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• Head of RN-Burenie Oil Company’s IT Department: Every Bit of Fundamental Knowledge I Have, I Learned at University

  … keep track of our staff members’ skills and their relevance. That’s what many people say: that universities can’t keep up and fail to provide students with the latest knowledge that they need for work. I believe it all depends on the university. There are those that have definitely become obsolete in their approach to education. But there are others, which sta…

  04.03.2019

• Evolutionary Biologist David Seaborg: Science Enriches Our Lives with Fantastic Ideas and Discoveries

  …ide audience? It means that you need to move people to get them to pay attention to and learn science, and be inspired by it. It’s very important, of course, to spread knowledge, and to explain it plainly and clearly. Theater can be helpful because many people have a misconception of science as something dull and boring. But science is actually not dull and boring…

  04.03.2019

• Make Blinis Like a Russian

  …minutes to let the gluten break up. It will make your blinis softer. Use a non-stick skillet and get it truly hot. Use a culinary brush, or like my grandma - a potato wedge - to evenly oil it. When pouring dough onto the skillet, swirl the dough to make it cover the skillet with what should look like a thin film. The blini should basically be instantl…

  04.03.2019

• Movie Fridays: Fine Tuning

  …Love You Baby Apart from being a great homage to the joys, taken ironically and not so much, of the teenage life, 10 Things I Hate About You brought us one more gem: Heath Ledger singing. One word: iconic. The more than one word, off-the-cuff post-scriptum: oh Heath Ledger, you’re sorely, sorely missed. And now excuse me while I melt…

  01.03.2019

• Interdisciplinary Innovations at ITMO University: In Conversation With ChemBio Professor Ekaterina Skorb

  …d help us: computer scientists, specialists in robotics, physicists and even designers. We have Bachelor’s students come to us from all over the University with their own knowledge telling us that they want to work with us: though they don’t know chemistry that well, they can always assist us in various ways, for instance, to develop alphabet for our informational sy…

  01.03.2019

• The Radio-Astronomical Triangle of Russia’s Institute of Applied Astronomy’s Quasar-KVO Complex

• ITMO Master’s Student on Using Robots in Medicine

  …crashes, gunshot wounds, stabbings, and so on. To work efficiently in these circumstances, they have to be creative. The Russian medical industry is all about creativity, knowledge and skills. Our robot can help assess knowledge, form skills, and develop creativity. And last but not least, there is an economic niche for this in Russi…

  28.02.2019

• European University’s Nikita Lomagin: How IT is Changing Historical Science

  …There are still a number of missing spots in our knowledge of the Siege of Leningrad. What is your focus right now? These days I study the economic history of the blockade in order to answer a question that I believe is fundamental: how did one million citizens of Leningrad manage to survive? Previous discourse in this area has mostly been focused on the differing…

  28.02.2019

• On-Site Round of “I Am a Professional” Competition: Participants Share

  …, but they had their quirks. There also wasn’t any theoretical tasks involved; it seems that the organizers saved them for the qualification round to test our theoretical knowledge, while the on-site round was aimed at the practical side of things. It would’ve been great if they’d said that explicitly, to save us some much-needed time in preparation. It was also u…

  27.02.2019

• How the RENOIR Project Untangles the Chaos of Social Media and Why It Matters

  …ly visit each others' universities and companies in order to exchange experience. On the whole, RENOIR envelops five levels, or workpackages, that involve the exchange of knowledge and innovations in the field of data infrastructure, the development of innovative solutions in the field of data processing and analysis, the exchange of knowledge…

  26.02.2019