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Top Five: Funky Ways to Fight a Cold – Reviewed!
You know that horrible, sniffly, snotty and yucky feeling when you’re on the verge of catching a cold but still not quite there yet? When you feel that the virus has already weaseled its way in but is waiting for the worst possible moment to attack you in full? ‘Course you do, because that’s everyone’s default state in the thick of autumn. Instead of prostrating on the sofa downing flu remedies and feeling sorry for ourselves, we’ve scoured the interwebs for some of the most idio… syncratic ways of curing a cold, and then tested them to see who cracks first. Enjoy!
18.10.2019
Lithium-Ion Batteries, Space and How Oxygen Affects Cells: 118th Nobel Week Results
The 118th Nobel Week, which recently drew to a close in Stockholm, was marked by awards to outstanding scientists, inventors and those who work in the fields of art and politics. As per the tradition, the candidates were chosen by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Read on to learn about the laureates in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine.
18.10.2019
Head of ICPC Northern Eurasia Regional Headquarters at ITMO: Helping People from Everywhere Join the Movement
A regional ICPC representative office has been established at ITMO University. The office will provide organizational support for ICPC events in Russia and Northern Eurasia. We got to meet the head of this new office, ITMO Alumnus Matvey Kazakov, and ask him what made ITMO University the center of the ICPC movement in Northern Eurasia, the most important thing for a contest participant and the launch of ICPC University.
18.10.2019
New Technology and How It Can Affect My Art: An Artist’s Opinion
Michel Doumit, a Lebanese artist and student of the Art & Science Master’s program at ITMO University, discusses how modern technology and classic art influence his work.
17.10.2019
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: October 19-20, 2019
Korean culture, Russian opera, Italian language and Nordic cinema – explore the world on this truly cosmopolitan weekend in St. Petersburg!
16.10.2019
ITMO Ranked Among Top 100 Best IT Universities in THE Computer Science Ranking
The Times Higher Education (THE) magazine has published its 2019 subject rankings of the world’s best Computer Science and Engineering and Technology universities. For the fourth year in a row, ITMO comes first out of all Russian universities in the Computer Science ranking, keeping its position in the top-100 best universities in the world. The university has also gone up in the Engineering and Technology ranking, where it appears for the third time in a row. In this subject ranking, ITMO University holds the 201-250 place and comes second after Lomonosov Moscow State University out of all Russian universities.
16.10.2019
Open Doors Competition for Tuition-Free Master’s Studies in Russia: ITMO to Coordinate Computer & Data Science Track
The organizing committee of the Open Doors international competition has announced the start of the qualification round, which is a portfolio contest, for international prospective Master’s students wanting to study in Russia. 2019 will be the third year that the competition has been hosted. ITMO.NEWS met with Polina Petrusha, Advisor to First Vice Rector, to find out how many winners of last year’s Open Doors enrolled at ITMO, what is needed to pass the portfolio round, and how this year’s competition will differ from the previous ones.
16.10.2019
Spanish Environmental Biotechnologists on the Environmental Situation, Greta Thunberg and Two-Phase Air Filters
Two environmental biotechnologists from Valladolid University, Spain came to St. Petersburg to give a course at ITMO University. Right before their departure we got a chance to meet them to talk about ways to improve the environmental situation and how these are different in Russia and Spain, as well as discuss the academic exchange opportunities for Master’s students.
15.10.2019
QS EECA University Rankings: ITMO Enters Top 13%
According to the QS EECA University Rankings 2019/20, ITMO University has once again improved its standing, rising by 10 places and ranking 46th. Every year, QS experts identify the top universities in the developing countries of Europe and Central Asia. This time, 14 Russian universities made it to the top-50.
14.10.2019
First Graduates of Game Development Technologies Master’s Program: You Cannot Just Be a Programmer in GameDev
This year marks the graduation of the first ever intake of the “Game Development Technologies” Master’s program. The former students are now on their way to changing the world of videogames. We had the chance to talk to the graduates and their professors about the benefits of this program, as well as what it is that makes a game developer stand out from other IT specialists and makes people want to become one.
14.10.2019