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• Mobile University: ITMO Presents Plans and Research Projects to Project 5−100's International Council

  …gh a mobile app, on the "smartphone", an indispensable part of almost everybody's life. On the ITMO University smartphone, everything is there: messenger, calendar, download history, contacts, and of course, Instagram," comments Anna Veklich, Head of Strategic Communications Department. Among the goals for 2017 are: becoming a university focused on master’s degre…

  20.03.2017

• 5 Things You Need to Know Now

  …ncover ancient art masterpieces. The mysterious black, red, and white colors of ancient Greek pottery can be read in elements -- iron, potassium, calcium and zinc -- and art history may be rewritten. Happy spouse, happy house! Researchers at University of California, Riverside, studied the use of first-person pronouns (I, me, you, your) in normal conversations amo…

  20.03.2017

• Watching the Skies: Roscosmos Installs a New Set-up for Monitoring Space Debris

  …that is smaller seems to be impossible. As of now, only 23,000 units of debris are monitored. Where does it come from? During more than fifty years of the "satellite's history", there were more than 5,5 thousand space missions that had to do with the planet's orbit. This means that it's full of used submissles and old satellites. What's more, in space, like on …

  09.03.2017

• "Genome Tetris" and Analyzing Fly Behavior: BioHack — the First Hackathon on Bioinformatics

  … Kornilova was part of its team). The teams that got 3rd and 2nd got 50,000 and 70,000 rubles correspondingly. The first prize winners — team of the "Analysis of demographic history by genome data" project — got 100,000 rubles. BioHack's winners According to Vladimir Uliantsev, jury member and member of ITMO's "Computer Technologies" International Laborator…

  09.03.2017

• It’s Hard to Be a Superhero: Rector Vladimir Vasilyev Shares Some Life Tips

  … is to have a true teacher, he talked about his student years at St. Petersburg Polytechnic University and about his dreams to become a professor. The students listened to his story about how he was given a position to work at Stavropol Polytechnic Institute after completing his studies, about his first professional steps when he was working at ITMO University (then …

  07.03.2017

• American Scientist’s Experts on Scientific Standup Shows and Singing Dinosaurs

  …eople constantly ask me about how I did it. As a microbiologist I was supposed to devote my life to science. I got a PhD degree and worked on a vaccine against HIV. I think my story on how to become a science communicator would be very informative. When I was a Master’s student, I understood that I was interested not only in science, but also in public and science…

  06.03.2017

• City of the Stolovaya — a Culinary Journey Through St. Petersburg’s Greatest Dining Phenomenon

• Delicacy for Sportsmen- How to Eat Ice-Cream and Build Muscle

  …me the best product according to "ITMO 3.0 Reload" Project, its authors presented the ice-cream at the "Startup Exchange" organized by Delovoi Peterburg magazine, made a video story in alliance with LIFE78 TV channel and took part in the Polar Bear Pitching.…

  03.03.2017

• Russia Is Better Protected Against Creationism than the USA

  …radical "scientific creationism". At the same time, most scientists regard this concept as pseudo-scientific, as it cannot be verified or falsified. In the new article on history of science, researchers from University of Jena and ITMO University compared how the relations between evolutionary theory and the society in USA and Russia, both modern and Soviet, forme…

  02.03.2017

• SciComm in Russia: How Does It Work and What’s Its Future?

  …index will really motivate anybody, adds the head of ITMO's Science Communication Center. "From my experience, the only way to motivate someone is to show a specific success story. For a PR specialist — someone who’s work is communicating with media — this can be some informational resonance which later led to particular results. For instance, after you've written …

  02.03.2017