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Cartoons We Love as Adults
…yone has probably at least heard of their most famous works directed by Hayao Miyazaki – My Neighbour Totoro, Howl’s Moving Castle, and of course, Spirited Away. Those are all masterpieces, I won’t argue with that, but today I’d like to note other, perhaps less well-known films directed by a co-founder of the studio, Isao Takahata. I’d say the top three are Grave of …
05.03.2021
ITMO Celebrates International Women’s Day
…p in the small town of Vozhega, Vologda Oblast, about 900 km from St. Petersburg. She moved here in 2010 when she enrolled in a Bachelor’s program. She has since completed her Master’s at ITMO, and is currently at the end of her PhD program. Ekaterina's previous degrees were in optical and electronic devices. She likes working in her field and learning something n…
04.03.2021
Smart Light: ITMO Researchers and Students Create Lighting System That Adapts to How Its Users Feel
…nal research tasks. “In the project, we are trying to understand how lighting affects a person’s emotional state,” explains Anastasia Laushkina, author of the project, a Master’s student at ITMO’s Lighting Design international program. “Once we collect the data, our system will be able to adapt to the needs of every user. Each individual working space has a lam…
04.03.2021
QS WUR by Subject 2021: ITMO Debuts Among Top 100 Universities in Computer Science
…ering and Technology, Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences & Management, and Life Sciences & Medicine. To be included in any of the rankings, universities must offer Bachelor’s, Master’s, or doctoral programs in at least two of the five subject areas. Just like last year, ITMO University has been included in seven subject rankings and has improved its position in fo…
04.03.2021
Highlights of Another Break Down by Atoms Lecture at the Informational Center for Atomic Energy
…ive one, which is hard to measure and trace. Contemporary high-tech medicine is based on this method. Essentially, isotopes are the same element but with a different molar mass (due to a different number of neutrons in their atoms). We now know almost 3,000 isotopes, only 10% of which are stable. Isotopes can’t be put inside the human body – first, they ne…
03.03.2021
ITMO Researchers Develop Method for Production of Hollow Nanoparticles From Liquid Metal
…ich is used to amplify signals during spectroscopy, and to increase the sensitivity of the chemical analysis,” explains Aleksandra Falchevskaya, lead author of the study and a Master’s student at ITMO University’s ChemBio Cluster. “Another potential application for hollow nanoparticles is medicine, where the concept of targeted drug delivery is popular – including by…
03.03.2021
How the Pandemic Is Causing a Technological Revolution in Medicine and Biotechnologies
…ticle). Then, it enters the nucleus of a human cell and prompts it to produce antibodies and T cells. It used to be a completely untested technology, but was suddenly put into mass testing during the pandemic. No one expected it to be 95% effective. Digital revolution: bioengineering, digital therapeutics, and AI A major breakthrough also took place in the digi…
02.03.2021
ITMO Highpark’s Project Receives Positive Assessment
…well as a museum of science, technology, and art will also be located there. The building can be used by 1,600 students and 500 teachers and staff members simultaneously. Both Master’s and PhD students of ITMO University will study and conduct research there. Bachelor’s and Specialist’s students will continue to study at the campus located in the center of St. Peters…
02.03.2021
Mind-Blowing Research of the Month: Brain-Computer Interfaces
…of the limbs to those who lost it, allowing people to move objects just by thinking about it, or make their surroundings responsive to their state – we are yet to hear about a mass-produced clinical or commercial device. This is connected to several challenges the technology has to overcome. Some of these issues concern the many things we still don’t know about t…
02.03.2021
ITMO Scientists Propose Technology for Producing Fish Oil and Collagen From Herring Skin
…nd vegetable salads, which is feasible within the context of real production. Plants may be interested in this, or not, it all depends on our results,” adds Aleksandr Kopylov, Master’s student at ITMO University and staff member of the Baltic Coast company. The company’s development director Anna Sheveleva met with Igor Baranov, head of the School of Biotech…
02.03.2021