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• How Games are Changing Education

  …s, learn about deforestation and its effects on soil, and even acquire knowledge of internet security. Some examples come from Russian schools, as well. Biology teacher Svetlana Sadakova from Yoshkar-Ola’s Baumansky Lyceum asked her students to do their homework in Minecraft. The children build in-game models based on what they’ve learned and then present them to …

  09.08.2019

• Mendeleev 150: IUPAC’s Birthday and Invention of Periodic Law

  …hing to his students to serve as a textbook.  Unable to find a suitable option, and spurred on by friends’ suggestions, he set out to write his own. That is Mendeleev’s own explanation. But there was another reason: money. By that time, he was married, had a son, and had another child on the way. He had also bought an estate near Tver that he wanted to renovate. All …

  02.08.2019

• Crystals and Peculiar Stars: Final Day of Mendeleev 150 at ITMO

  …als, the use of which is expected to replace materials in current use, the prediction of new high-temperature semiconductors, new chemistry of nanoparticles, and a possible explanation of the carcinogenicity of oxide dust. He also spoke about the current limitations and possible prospects of these methods.…

  01.08.2019

• First Summer School of International Project LIGHT4HEALTH

  …the consortium. ITMO University will be represented by five Master’s students from the “Lighting Design” program and two members of staff of the Faculty of Applied Optics, Svetlana Kolgushkina and Valeria Lukinskaya. All in all, the school will be attended by some 20 people. Apart from practicing lighting designers and researchers in the field, among the developer…

  22.07.2019

• How to Apply for (And Get) the Chevening Scholarship

  …years. Another tip is to try to mention the UK in some way or another. The interview If you did well on your essays and, most importantly, provided a clear enough explanation of what you’re going to study and why, then you’ll likely be invited for an interview. Don’t contradict your essays during the interview, but try to expand on them. If you have any …

  19.07.2019

• The Planets by Prof Brian Cox: The Actual Best

  …o describe it. Three cheers for science! Prof Brian Cox’s enthusiasm is contagious; belief in the possibility of life in the great cosmic beyond believable; in-depth explanations of the space mystiques cogitable even to such an 0K in astrophysics as yours truly. You can never go wrong with one of his productions, and so, while we are all eagerly awaiting for t…

  12.07.2019

• Twin Campus Project: Establishing Collaboration Between Russian and Finnish Universities

  …This initiative is aimed at attracting students from Russia and Finland to working in international teams coached by mentors and representatives of the industry,” comments Svetlana Bazueva, Head of ITMO University’s Department of International Programs and Projects. The project is designed for three years, until 2021. Each year involves the implementation of cer…

  05.07.2019

• Art & Science Students Present Projects for Upcoming Creative Center in Gatchina

  …cience, its team partnered up with ITMO University, the first educational institution in Russia to launch a Master’s program on this subject. Six students of the program – Svetlana Sidorova, Marta Mikhailova, Alena Koroleva, Victoria Romanova, Yulia Ganchikova, and Anna Pisarevskaya – took part in the Center’s development as part of their summer internship. They pres…

  03.07.2019

• Results of ITMO.EXPERT Project for ITMO Lecturers

  …es, the topics discussed at the meetings and the opportunity to build your own educational trajectory. I’m not new to teaching, but I still found it really useful,” shares Svetlana Banar, an associate professor at the Faculty of Cryogenic Engineering. In the following season of ITMO.EXPERT, the coordinators plan to use new formats of interaction, including remot…

  03.07.2019

• Unexplored St. Petersburg: AI at the Hermitage

  …la, my need to analyze shifted to pure delight as I watched Claude Monet’s work being reduced to fractals and then reconstructed back to the flowers that inspired them. The explanation panel said that in the 19th century the invention of tube paints allowed artists to capture spontaneity of nature. Now modern technologies allow not only to capture the spontaneity, bu…

  28.06.2019