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• It’s Okay to Worry: Experts on How the Pandemic Changed Psychology and Brought Back Old-Time Problems

  …o reduce the number of our relaxation and meditation sessions because it’d be difficult to keep a safe distance between students and constantly clean the premises. But now that restrictions have eased, the situation is extremely interesting: students who have just started university hurry to sign up for our consultations and relaxation classes. Many people believe…

  21.09.2021

• Tips For Dealing with Digital Burnout

  …our smartphone: at first, it felt like a relief that you didn’t need to carry an mp3 player, a map, or a book around – anything could be replaced with an app. But the idea of multifunctionality has its setbacks. Yes, it’s all here, but there’s also too much of it. Our brains seem to not cope, so why not go back to devices and locations with just one fun

  21.09.2021

• Apple Feast: Traditional Russian Treats to Try This Fall

  …est option! Pair it with a cup of coffee, tea, or milk and have the best dessert of your life.  Pastila Another great Russian delicacy is pastila. It’s a traditional fruit confectionery that dates back to the 14th century. The recipe made its way to the Domostroy book, a 16th-century Russian guide to life for nobles. Today, it still remains a sweet treat belove…

  20.09.2021

• ITMO Scientists Develop Shape-Shifting Microcapsules from Liquid Metals

  …ays a critical role in the process. The researchers tested both hollow and single-piece microstructures, and the latter lead to a less pronounced effect. They gathered an entire collection of various particle variants, all of which were experimentally tested, while trying to figure out the right composition and inner structure. “When we used solid gallium partic…

  20.09.2021

• ITMO.Expert Project: Student- and Teacher-Centered Learning and New Opportunities

  … quite a contentious debate. It’s hard to confront a person who has years of experience, case examples, and statistics over the past few years when your only tools are ideas and projections. The key difference lies in how we see students from the very beginning. Do we think of them as followers or leaders? I think that, in many ways, it is a decisive factor. Young sp…

  17.09.2021

• ITMO Scientists Create Water-Resistant Perovskite Nanocrystals

  …e widely used in solar cells, nanolasers, and light-emitting diodes due to their unique properties, luminescence, and low cost. Their ability to absorb light is also used in the production of efficient photodetectors. “Perovskite is an interesting and promising material that in Russia is mostly studied in regards to photovoltaics or semiconductor diodes. But its…

  17.09.2021

• Our Take On Fighting the Fall Blues

  …omfy sweaters, and comfort food, I’m used to easily getting affected by weather changes. With the coming of the colder season, I turn into more of a homebody – yet with an inspiring action-packed to-do list (prepared beforehand). It’s full of fun fall activities like treating myself to an unearthing soul-warming apple pie, throwing a Tim Burton spooky movie marathon,…

  17.09.2021

• ITMO University Among Top 5 Russian Universities in Times Higher Education Life Sciences Ranking

  …rsity, and other leading institutions. The subject ranking’s evaluations are based on the same 13 indicators as used in the global ranking (THE WUR). These are grouped into five sections: Teaching (learning environment); Research (volume, income, and reputation); Citations (research influence); International outlook (ratio of international students and staff, rese…

  16.09.2021

• Window into the Future: Start Development and ITMO Highpark Present the Latest Research on Urban Development

  …metropolitan area has to include a network of economically and infrastructurally self-sufficient urban areas in order to avoid the encircling of the city with areas with dense construction. “St. Petersburg must become a city of various districts – but not at the cost of the degradation of the city center. The region’s strengths lie in its satellite cities, and i…

  16.09.2021

• EduStars Winner Maria Moskalenko: Students Are Engaged When You Love What You Do

  … used to identify the properties of a product before manufacturing or see that it meets the required parameters. Usually, we need to know how a magnet with certain parameters will function in an external field, so first we model these parameters.  What was your PhD thesis about?  It grew out of my Master’s project, where I worked with 2D and pseudo-3D modeling.…

  15.09.2021