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• Staff Spotlight: Daniel Nsengumuremyi, Rwanda

  …When did you come to Russia? I came to Russia in 2014 to get my Master's at Ural Federal University (URFU) in Yekaterinburg. I come from an Eastern African country, Rwanda, and I got my Bachelor’s degree in applied biology there. By that time URFU had just launched a new program on food biotechnology taught in English, so they invited international students to app…

  08.10.2020

• ITMO.STARS 2020 Winners: Who Are They?

  …students to enroll in the university's programs on tuition-fee positions regardless of their Unified State Exam (USE) scores.  This year, 14 people from St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Khabarovsk, Simferopol, and other Russian cities became the winners. All of them presented their achievements to the contest committee: implemented projects, participati…

  06.10.2020

• Our Favorite Places to Experience Fall in St. Petersburg

  …ays, I had to relocate outside and discovered the perfect fairytale route. Starting by the water in Lopukhinskyi Garden, I cross the river to Kamenny Island with its rather mysterious mansions, now covered in golden and copper-coloured leaves. It always seems like the time has stopped there and no one has even heard about any recent technological advances. Finally, I…

  06.10.2020

• Epidemiologist Vasily Vlassov on Medical Problems Exposed by the Pandemic

  …ospheric pressure, so air can’t leave the room of a diseased patient.” However, most countries didn’t take such measures. Moreover, we weren’t ready for a pandemic both materially and intellectually. “You probably noticed that as early as February, it felt like science wasn’t prepared for what was going on and by April it became obvious,” says Vasily Vl…

  06.10.2020

• New Coworking Space Opens at ITMO’s Kronverksky Campus

  … comfortable workspace. The new library will be located on the fifth floor of ITMO’s building at Lomonosova 9 and will host a service office and the depository of printed materials. ITMO students and staff will be able to get books in open access or use the library’s computers, as well as get assistance from its staff. Another coworking space for group work and…

  05.10.2020

• Picture of the Week: Hematite Crystals in Glass

  …red” in Greek. Its chemical formula is Fe2O3.  Separate crystals of this mineral look black to the naked eye. However, if they were grown in a glass matrix, the resulting material will be transparent but also attracted to magnets, almost like iron. In the picture taken through a microscope, you can see separate hematite crystals evenly spread in glass. Initi…

  02.10.2020

• Scientists Create New IR-Activated Coating for Local Drug Delivery

  …t or suppress inflammation at an early stage. “I want to create such a coating that besides stimulating osteogenesis, would have additional functions, for example, antibacterial, or, as in our case, stimulate cell differentiation towards the formation of bone tissue,” says Svetlana Ulasevich, associate professor at ITMO University’s Infochemistry Scientific Cent…

  02.10.2020

• Media Research Group’s Aleksandr Farseev On Advertising Algorithms and Social Network Monopolies

  …ut artificial intelligence can draw connections between them. That’s why it’s so popular. What about content generation? You can generate new content based on existing materials and it will look genuine. That’s what Facebook is trying to fight. But what we’re doing is perfectly legal because we always warn users if our content was generated automatically and it…

  01.10.2020

• Staff Spotlight: Mingzhao Song, China

  …st evolved naturally, and I’m very happy with it. Which changes at ITMO have been the most notable for you? When I first came here we weren’t even a Faculty, but a Metamaterials Laboratory. After several years of development, we got stronger and became the independent Faculty of Physics and Engineering. At the beginning of my career, there was a very small grou…

  01.10.2020

• ITMO Researchers Create Unique Wound-Healing Nanofibers Based on Hyaluronic Acid

  …by Prof. Mayya Uspenskaya, head of ITMO’s International Scientific and Research Institute of Bioengineering. The paper presenting the results of the project was published in Materials, and was chosen by the MDPI publishing house to be the cover of its 16th issue containing over 200 publications.  Hyaluronic acid is actually vital for an organism: it is a part …

  30.09.2020