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• Learning From Nature: Scientists Suggest Sea Sponges for Water Purification and Vehicle Emission Reduction

  …. Since ancient times, humans have used sea sponges in everyday life and to prepare concoctions, or even to produce works of art. With the emergence of numerous synthetic materials, the demand for natural sponges fell. Recently, however, they’ve become the subject of a major international research project that involves scientists from Germany, Russia, the USA, Pol…

  22.10.2019

• More than ESP: International Experts on How to Teach English Effectively in Higher Education

  …hat they say, know what they read and how they write to understand what they still have to learn about the language. Predictions are also crucial: one has to evaluate course materials and try to predict what can be potentially difficult for the students.  The third important point is communicating with your students so that they get the skills they need in the 21s…

  21.10.2019

• Lithium-Ion Batteries, Space and How Oxygen Affects Cells: 118th Nobel Week Results

  … are John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino. As it is stated on the Award’s website, “they created a rechargeable world”. This is a reference to lithium-ion batteries that the scientists have created and that now power every smartphone and laptop. Their work is based on electrochemical oxidation reactions happening to metallic lithium that comprises t…

  18.10.2019

• Intergenerational Teamwork: ITMO University Introduces a New Mentorship Program

  …rking on it until the right mentor is found.  How mentors see their goals  Mikhail Leontiev, founder of New Wallet, a company manufacturing wallets from the innovative material Tyvek I’m interested in sharing my experience of running a business: money cycles, regulations, guidelines, interaction with contractors, pitfalls, investments, the market’s prosp…

  18.10.2019

• ITMO’s PhD Student Awarded a Grant for Researching Natural Protein-Based Preservatives

  …project, Georgiy develops alternatives to chemicals-based preservatives that could replace these in order to present the food industry with the opportunity of using natural bacteriostatic agents to prevent the growth of microorganisms in products.  “This is the first time that the peptides we are focusing on are being research. Their structure, functions and pro…

  17.10.2019

• ITMO Ranked Among Top 100 Best IT Universities in THE Computer Science Ranking

  …iversity’s scientific achievements.” Overall, the ranking includes 17 Russian universities. Next after ITMO University comes Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, entering the top 100 for the first time with the 95th position. Lomonosov Moscow State University, however, has lost its place in the top-100, now appearing in the range 101-125.  The full res…

  16.10.2019

• 8 Mistakes to Avoid When Starting Your Business

  …onversely, imagine them as something bigger than they really are. It’s important to keep an eye on the companies that have made a name for themselves in the market you’re entering. Draw yourself a map: who works in the same market segment, what is their share, who’s the leader, how they became successful, what makes you different from or better than them. Treat yo…

  16.10.2019

• Fort Boyard: ITMO University Hosts Information Security Quest

  …t are normally unrecognizable to the human eye.  “Room number one, or the Cybersecurity Lab as we called it, tasked the participants with working with files,” explains Ekaterina Sozinova, a co-organizer of the quest and associate professor at ITMO’s Faculty of Secure Information Technologies. “They were presented with two images with a 16-bit difference which th…

  15.10.2019

• QS EECA University Rankings: ITMO Enters Top 13%

  …ch network can be named among its strong sides: for one, over 46% of publications by ITMO staff have been written in collaboration with their international colleagues. This criteria, which was introduced last year, is calculated based on data provided by Scopus and assesses the degree of international collaborations in a university’s research activities (in terms of …

  14.10.2019

• ITMO University Team Wins NordCTF With More Points Than All Other Contestants Put Together

  …earch methods can vary, sometimes it means using the common “Ctrl+F” hotkey combination. There are programs that can look for certain code fragments with a number of set characteristics. Some participants compete in exposing vulnerabilities - these allow one to make a program do something that was not originally intended by its creator like changing images on a …

  14.10.2019