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Back to School Like a Pro: Get Things Done, Ace Your Tests, and Have Fun
… from a catch-up with friends to a doctor’s appointment. Not only can you make sure you’re present in all of your classes, but also take into account your assignments and, for instance, keep evenings before a morning class free for any last-minute touch-ups. Informal and formal events. As you might know by now, ITMO has an abundance of student clubs fo…
10.09.2021
Student Spotlight: Takshama Bhatt, India
…ere only theoretical. On the contrary, in Russia, the universities focus a lot on the practical experience of students. What I really like about SCAMT (the ITMO-based research institute that houses the Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Master’s program – Ed.) is the fact that they allow me to do my own research. Every student at SCAMT is allowed to define their own…
09.09.2021
Apply Students Founder Vladislav Efimov on Launching Study-Abroad Startup During the Pandemic
…to $2,650 in Canada. Then, we would start to prepare documents for obtaining a student visa. We must bear in mind that the host country may reject certain applications, for instance, from people who decided to turn their lives around – give up construction for hotel business. That’s why we had to figure out the right strategy for each case. Now, it’s much easi…
09.09.2021
Grounding Art & Science Exhibition Now Open at ITMO
…oring, unpleasant object from an unexpected side: we invite visitors to approach the soil, listen to it, sniff it, taste it – and think about how we can take care of it,” explains Victoria Gopka, a curator of the project. There was an international open call for projects, as a result of which more than 150 applications have been received. A total of 19 participa…
09.09.2021
ITMO Accelerator Winners on Their Virtual Dressing Room Project
…f the models. There are some requirements user-side, too: we can’t use photos of them at half-turn or in twisted poses. That, too, is a focus of our current R&D. Origins and the team How did you come up with the idea for the project? The project originated last year at a hackathon. Our team came together by accident and we matched each other quite wel…
08.09.2021
Pending Futures Exhibition: ITMO Art & Science Students Reflect Upon Isolation and Secret Life of Plants
…esponds to changing technologies, art practices, and our everyday reality. “Today’s artists make much use of digital technologies, but how is this tendency reflected, for instance, in the educational programs of top-ranked art schools? Over the last decades, the Russian and Dutch systems were built on different approaches. While the first one focused largely on …
08.09.2021
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: September 11-12, 2021
…eative habits, as you experience the exhibition. And don’t forget to also check out part of the Zero Waste Bistro project that was originally initiated by the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York in 2018 to experience a concept of a circular-economy restaurant built with sustainable materials. Who says recycling can’t be fashionable?…
08.09.2021
Scientists Develop Compact Nanolaser with Unique Properties
… photons – quants of light – appear and proceed to induce the appearance of other photons in a cascading manner. The longer the initial quants exist and the longer they remain inside the resonator, the more new photons they can create. The resonator developed by the researchers allows them to produce laser radiation using a small number of photons. “There’s a…
08.09.2021
ITMO’s Digital Healthcare Lab On Decision Support, Medical Records, and Agent-Based Modeling
…ta. According to Sergey Kovalchuk, there is a wide range of possible tasks for research: from choosing a strategy for treatment to organizing various processes in a medical institution or the entire healthcare system. The lab’s staff members not only do research but also share their experience: in June, they organized the second workshop as part of the Internat…
07.09.2021
Saving The Past: Volunteering in Historical Restoration Projects
…cemetery, tidying up tiled archways, and that’s not even a full list. Recently, the team moved forward and held their first event in Moscow. For some people, these are just insignificant details easily lost in the interiors of сommon areas, but the love and affection of the community to what this team does definitely pays off. The local news portals keep a close e…
07.09.2021