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Building Resilience and Coping With Stress
…ur inner narrative, our attitude to challenges, and overall outlook on life,” Elena shares her opinion. Coping mechanisms In terms of stress, coping mechanisms seek to master, minimize, or tolerate stress that occurs in everyday life. People choose a certain coping mechanism because of their personality traits and type, social context, and the nature of the s…
03.11.2020
Collecting Sounds: ITMO Holds Workshop on Soundscapes and Environmental Acoustics
…The idea behind the workshop came from Anton Schegolev, a first-year student of ITMO’s Master’s program in Art & Science. He is a sound artist who has taken part in such media art festivals as Cyberfest, Ars Electronica, Presence, and the Access Modes exhibition (you can learn more about him in our overview of this year’s Art & Science students). A Sound Educati…
02.11.2020
Ancient Art & Science, or What Killed the Medusa
…over thousands of years, and that are still magnificent. “Those are examples of the synthesis between science and art, which I believe to be a concept capable of creating masterpieces in both fields. In science, there are such terms as “a beautiful formula”, “an elegant theory” and so on. Same works for art: when we don’t contrapose the rational and the emotiona…
02.11.2020
ITMO University’s Alumni Entrepreneur Club
…ation. That’s why such clubs will allow us to keep in touch and bring more high-class specialists to the university,” said Olavi Siikki, the founder of the WARMR startup and a Master’s student at ITMO’s Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations (#itmotech). The club’s first meeting also featured Olga Beglova, a coach from the Ernst & Young Academy of B…
02.11.2020
Picture of the Week: An Atomic Force Microscope Celebrates Halloween
…cated under the probe. Therefore, you can choose a specific part of the sample to study. That’s what scientists were doing when they noticed the probe’s resemblance to a scary mask and decided to take a picture. The microscope is used by ITMO University’s International Research and Education Center for Physics of Nanostructures to measure the thickness of metal fi…
30.10.2020
Artificial Meat and What It’s All About: 10 Top Questions
…ppens in a bioreactor. Even though it’s a complicated process, there are already special nutritious environments and growing modes that will someday allow us to grow meat on a massive scale. How is it made? For now, the precise component list of artificial meat isn’t known, but the technology is quite simple at first glance: specialists take an active…
29.10.2020
Allergist Olga Zhogoleva on Evidence-Based Medicine and Myths
…nternet and that everything they suggested was bad. It is even worse if they were treated correctly but because of some online information started to use things like coffee enemas. I had a patient who cried at my appointment because, on the one hand, she liked the way I treated her, but on the other hand, she was disappointed that I refused to admit that the Epstein-…
29.10.2020
Student Spotlight: Rigel Olvera, Mexico
…achelor’s in Mechatronics Systems at the Polytechnic University of Puebla in Mexico. Right after I finished, I knew that I wanted to continue my studies, so I decided to do my Master’s degree in Russia, mainly because it’s a country full of beauty in any season of the year. At the age of 23, I traveled to Vladimir, where I first took a year of Russian language and th…
29.10.2020
ITMO University Expands Its Presence in Times Higher Education Subject Rankings
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: October 31 – November 1, 2020
…nts To all geeks and technomaniacs, this is not a test! Over 40 cutting-edge VR headsets will teleport you to the first VR bar in Russia, bring you inside world-renowned masterpieces, give you the experience of Half-Life: Alyx that we know you wanted – and tons more! Since Cyberpunk 2077 has moved its release date yet again (we know!), this might be our only ch…
28.10.2020