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• TEDxStPetersburg Speakers on the Future of Education, Quantum Revolution, and Burnout Prevention

  …ectures allowed each speaker to briefly share their thoughts and insights with the audience in accordance with TED’s slogan – “Ideas worth spreading.” TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) events cover various topics: from personal efficiency to high tech. This time, speakers from the fields of education, art, business, economics, and data science discussed the …

  03.11.2020

• Building Resilience and Coping With Stress

  …ares her opinion. Coping mechanisms In terms of stress, coping mechanisms seek to master, minimize, or tolerate stress that occurs in everyday life. People choose a certain coping mechanism because of their personality traits and type, social context, and the nature of the stress. “Today’s fast-paced world doesn’t let a person take a break. Tasks are fol…

  03.11.2020

• Collecting Sounds: ITMO Holds Workshop on Soundscapes and Environmental Acoustics

  …an spaces more comfortable, such as, to plant more trees along streets, opting for rubber coverings instead of asphalt ones, and choosing where to locate sound sculptures, fountains, etc.  Schafer himself thought that in the future, sound designers would be as important as architects – because they would determine the well-being of city denizens.…

  02.11.2020

• ITMO University’s Alumni Entrepreneur Club

  …imilar path, we have a lot in common, and together we can achieve much more.” “This is an important step for both the university and graduates. It is crucial to maintain communication not only during their studies but also after graduation. That’s why such clubs will allow us to keep in touch and bring more high-class specialists to the university,” said O…

  02.11.2020

• Painted Mammoths and Honey: the Rescued Wonders of Bashkortostan

  … managed to preserve their cultural identity. Just imagine: they could surpass the British in tea-drinking, their national hero is not only a warrior but a poet, and every mountain, river or cave of this region is fraught with a heart-fluttering legend about its birth (it's probably worth another article to explain it all). Nature of Bashkortostan boasts breathtak…

  02.11.2020

• ITMO University's Award for Achievement in Education

  … fill out a competition application no later than December 31, 2020, inclusively. During the competitive selection process, the following are evaluated: the results obtained within the framework of the project; focus on solving urgent problematic issues in modern education; the ability to scale the project and adapt it for ITMO University; use of moder…

  30.10.2020

• Artificial Meat and What It’s All About: 10 Top Questions

  …wn in lab conditions from a live cell that’s placed within a reactor. Think of a chicken egg; that’s nature’s perfect reactor. Its shell holds calcium for bones, the whites contain protein for muscle tissue, and the yolk provides a fatty base for nerve cells. This is a lot like what happens in a bioreactor. Even though it’s a complicated process, there are already sp…

  29.10.2020

• BizCycle Founders Develop Three New Bike Routes in Leningrad Oblast

  …trend. That’s why projects like BizCycle are highly relevant.  Raitis Sijats, the president of the European Cultural Tourism Network (ECTN) and a coordinator of the Iron Curtain bike route in Latvia, have shared the results of ten-year-long work on creating such routes and discussed how it benefits and influences tourism, business, and administration. Ilya …

  29.10.2020

• Research Team from ITMO University, St. Petersburg State University, and Nova Southeastern University Is the First to Sequence the Genome of Moss Animals

  …attracted the attention of scientists because bryostatin can be produced out of it. Bryostatin is a substance that allows us to influence the activity of cells. Medications containing it are in development. “Moss animals are often confused with plants,” says Polina Kuchur, second-year ITMO University student. “They inhabit the coastal area at a depth of 200-300 …

  28.10.2020

• What is Hyaluronic Acid and Where Can We Apply It?

  … 1934. Natural sources such as chicken caruncles, shark skin, and mammal umbilical cord still remain one of the main ways of hyaluronic acid subtraction. However, using acid obtained from tissues of living organisms can cause allergic reactions due to remaining endotoxins and protein components which could not be removed by purification. Another source is bacterial s…

  27.10.2020