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• ITMO.EXPERT Project Wrap Up: Portrait of a Modern Educator

  …ave lists of popsci books and films to offer my students. One of the tasks I give is to choose something from the list – which features everything from The Simpsons to serious scientific papers, – read it, and write an essay. Students usually like this task and some of them say in their feedback forms that they’ve read and watched half of the list and are thrilled wi…

  29.06.2021

• ITMO Researcher Ekaterina Noskova Becomes Winner of Skoltech’s Fellowship Program 2021

  …Starting from 2016, the expert board of the Systems Biology Program annually selects the five most promising young scientists under the age of 35 years engaged in systems, molecular, and cell biology, bioinformatics algorithms and methods, comparative bioinformatics, genomic research, and so on. The mission of the program is to support and stimulate Russian research …

  29.06.2021

• ITMO’s KronBars Sports Club Wins Megagrant from the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education

• PI School Participants Share Their Stories

  … its initiators, Vladimir Knyaginin, Vice Governor of St. Petersburg, met with the students at the opening ceremony and their defense.  The PI School brought together young scientists holding a PhD degree from 30 Russian regions. Within five days, speakers from various universities and academic institutions talked about the laboratories of the future focusing on t…

  28.06.2021

• Russian Team Takes Three Gold Medals at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI 2021)

  …ng at MIPT. This year, they performed the olympiad’s tasks remotely from the Sirius Educational Center. The International Olympiad in Informatics is an annual international scientific competition for school students demonstrating outstanding achievements in computer science, namely, algorithms, data structure, programming, and proble…

  28.06.2021

• Lighting Designer Jari Vuorinen on His Projects, Teaching at ITMO, and Importance of Communication

  …have you managed to cover? We have preliminarily discussed the topics I wanted to cover with organizers. My approach was very open because I’m not a lecturer, professor, or scientist per se. That’s why I tried to keep it real. The topics we discussed were related to professional life: how to deal with project work, detect problems, and find solutions. Obviously, t…

  25.06.2021

• ITMO University Recognized as Best St. Petersburg University by Forbes

  …d its best results in the Quality of Education metric, in which it ranks second among all universities. This metric is based on data from the Russian Ministry of Education and Science and included two parameters: quality of education and international activities. Just like last year, the quality of education was evaluated by assessing the level of lecturers’ salary (…

  24.06.2021

• Cutting Perovskite: Scientists Succeed in Shaping Microscopic Monocrystals Without Loss of Quality

  …Today, perovskites are among the most actively studied materials. The first perovskite known to science was calcium titanate, a mineral discovered in 1839 in the Ural Mountains. For a long time, it was considered a potential material for use in capacitors. In the 1980s, more complex perovskites started to see use in high-temperature superconductors. But in the early …

  24.06.2021

• New Research Highlights History and Importance of Preserving the Lesser-Known Chinese Mountain Cat

  …ijing and supported by an international team including lead genetic researchers at ITMO University in St. Petersburg, in the USA, and in Malaysia. The research is published in Science Advances. The genomic data resolves a taxonomic classification uncertainty, reveals the timing of evolutionary divergence, and pinpoints the prospects for survival of an important endan…

  23.06.2021

• New X-Ray Detectors, Innovative Skincare and Meditation in VR: ITMO Students Defend Startups as Theses

  …rtunity to present their own startups as theses, hence the name of the program: Startup As Thesis. Thanks to this project, those Master’s students who are already implementing scientific ideas in business can fully concentrate on their projects without needing to direct their efforts towards writing a conventional paper. According to Anton Gopka, dean of ITMO’s Fa…

  23.06.2021