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• It’s Your Call! Forum Winning Projects: Fighting Burnout and Recycling Face Masks

  …fessional contest and the It’s Your Call! forum.   Andrey Donskoy: Our project was on recycling face masks that multiplied in the COVID-19 pandemic. We decided to combine the production cycle of polyethylene terephthalate, the most popular polymer in Russia, with face masks recycling. This will allow improving the quality of the final product of recycling, thus ra…

  17.05.2021

• Biologist Dmitry Zhukov on Stress, Depression, and Displacement Activities

  …What is stress and where it comes from Biologically speaking, stress is a reaction to a new significant stimulus, to a situation that demands making decisions quickly. It’s basically an adaptive reaction of our bodies that is supposed to either solve the problem or adapt to the situation. Animals experience stress if there is a di…

  14.05.2021

• Life During Exams: Self-Care 101

  …-quality chocolate can be a way of “self-caring,” the term actually has a much deeper meaning and the power to change lives.  “In health care, self-care is any human regulatory function which is under individual control, deliberate and self-initiated, for the purpose of the maintenance of health and wellbeing,” says Wikipedia. So, essentially taking care of yourse…

  14.05.2021

• People Need You: Volunteering at ITMO University

  …g, etc.) Supporting children in hospitals and orphanages (arrangement of workshops, performances, and parties) Eco-volunteering (Ecohabits school, separate waste collection, and the international eco-camp bringing together people from more than 20 countries) Blood and bone marrow donation Preserving cultural heritage (volunteering at m…

  14.05.2021

• ITMO.Career: First Open Careers Forum for Prospective ITMO Students

  …are countless possibilities to gain this experience, sometimes even at the university. Many faculties and programs actively collaborate with in-house labs, research centers, and productions, thus letting students take their first steps on their career ladder. However, although students have no trouble finding answers to these questions, many still don’t take this mat…

  13.05.2021

• Elena Rybnikova on Why You Shouldn’t Fight Stress

  …s in itself, these are stressors – factors that influence our bodies and threaten our homeostasis. Stress is not a specific situation, it’s a body condition, the launch of special reactions that try to balance things out. Secondly, both stress and stressors aren’t necessarily negative – winning a race or having a birthday party are also stressful situations. However,…

  13.05.2021

• ITMO’s Andrey Filchenkov: How To Train Neural Networks To Identify Debtors Based on Their Expenses

  … Naturally, our study doesn’t guarantee that you can always easily identify the categories. We could train our neural network and make the right conclusions only for a particular selection of clients of Bank St. Petersburg. But if the algorithm also works on other data, then it will be easier for banks to identify irresponsible clients at the stage of approving loans…

  13.05.2021

• ITMO Researchers Suggest Design for Biointegrable Controlled Nanoparticles

  … hydrophilic segment. Then, when the particle is heated up, the molecule starts to move, prompting the shell to expand. This effect is the result of the hydrophobic/hydrophilic interaction between these molecules: when they turn their hydrophobic parts towards each other, they repel each other and thus the polymer section becomes larger…

  12.05.2021

• Researchers Highlight Inbreeding Among Amur Leopards Through Whole Genome Sequencing

  …and governmental support – the genetic diversity inside the population can’t increase due to the lack of new incoming genes, so the subspecies is still balancing on the verge of extinction. The fast spread of morphological genetic characters  that are atypical for wild animals, such as white paws and shortened tails, tells us about the need to conduct genetic researc…

  12.05.2021

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: May 15-16, 2021

  …also get to run in a historic park with a palace hidden somewhere in it. And then there is the cherry on top, or rather a medal on your chest – a perfect addition to your trophy collection. If you want to take part, don’t hesitate to sign up here for the distance of your choice, because the spots are limited and they are almost sold out. The starter packs will be giv…

  12.05.2021