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• Oncologist Maksim Kotov: Communicating With a Patient Shouldn’t Be a Game of Luck

  …y research into the matter. Gradually, I started translating English papers into Russian. In 2017, I translated the SPIKES protocol for delivering bad news and published the material on my Facebook page. This got a lot of positive feedback, and I understood that the Russian professional community of doctors were interested in this topic, that there was a demand for s…

  08.04.2020

• Life During a Pandemic: Experiences, Changes, Silver Linings

  …en so I can reach into the fridge with one hand while responding to emails with the other. My friend gave me a yoga mat just before this all started so I’ve even managed a spattering of yoga. The fact that almost everyone I know around the world is spending endless hours at home makes the whole experience easier too: I’ve been catching up with many friends I haven’t …

  07.04.2020

• How to Follow a Healthy Diet During Self-Isolation

  … program, reminds about the need to care about your intestine microbiome, the most important part of the human digestive system. “What matters is not only the types of bacteria that live in the intestines but also how diverse they are. Microbiome should be as “multicultural” as possible. Unfortunately, just like some wild animal species, bacteria for qualification assessment of candidates for ITMO University’s academic staff positions that have been approved for participation in the competitive selection.  Where can I …

  06.04.2020

• How Statistics Can Skew Facts – and How We Can Learn to Trust It Again

  …ics and the issues of modern science An overwhelming majority of today’s scientific articles, and the general idea of what makes scientific knowledge, are based on a key criterion: statistical validity. This is especially sensible in the case of various empirical research. Statistics helps us tell science and pseudoscience apart, understand which data is right …

  03.04.2020

• Laine Schaublin: Moving to St. Petersburg Was One of the Best Decisions I’ve Ever Made

  … What do you think are the biggest challenges in education right now? The biggest challenge is to engage students, to keep lessons interesting while covering the required materials. Constant adaptation to students’ interests is imperative. How have you used, or how will you use, technology in the classroom? I've mostly used it for audio files, multimedia pre…

  02.04.2020

• “I Am a Professional”: Competition Winners on Experience Gained and Opportunities Discovered

  …Ekaterina Kosareva, gold medal winner of the Robotics track, second-year student at the Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics The qualifying round for the Robotics track consisted mainly of theoretical questions, the answers to which I already knew from my first two years at ITMO. The first on-site round, on the other hand, was entirely practical. We were asked …

  01.04.2020

• Don’t Panic: How to Keep It Together During a Pandemic

  …e and justified fear of uncertainty. The problem is that by giving in to that state, we only make things worse. Secondly, because of informational and social pressure. Mass hysteria is always accompanied by much discussion: it’s reported on in the media, overheard at the store, discussed in work chats, and forwarded by friends. But you can still escape this “infoglut…

  31.03.2020

• Scientists Propose a Carbon Dot-Based Method for Increasing the Efficiency of Solar Cells and LED

  … auxiliary layers are made from organic molecules, polymers or oxides of different metals,” explains Aleksandr Litvin, a senior research associate at ITMO University. “These materials have various disadvantages: some have low stability, some are very expensive and difficult to manufacture. Some are prone to degradation when exposed to water and oxygen molecules in th…

  30.03.2020

• Two ITMO University Lecturers Receive Potanin Foundation Grant

  …thetic method) to the search and analysis of contextual knowledge, as well as utilize relevant analytical software and environments with embedded services for explication, clusterization and statistical processing of scientific texts. “Our Master’s students obtain research work skills first in laboratories, ITMO’s e-Government Center, and then in think tanks…

  27.03.2020