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• Environmental Scientist Jaana Sorvari on Sustainable Waste Management in Europe and Russia

  …e. Compost also cannot be used in agriculture, which leaves us without a major share of the market. Things are better with metals, as there is a high demand for all metal material. It’s a valuable resource that’s also easily recyclable. The European Union is often held up as an example of perfect waste management, but is that really so? What issues are stil…

  21.05.2019

• ITMO Professor Ekaterina Skorb And President Vladimir Putin Discuss the Future of Chemical Science in Russia

  …sidence. Among the meeting’s participants were many internationally recognized scientists, including Valery Fokin, a Nobel prize nominee in chemistry for 2013, and Ekaterina Skorb, a former Harvard professor who’s now working for ITMO University, as well as the winner of last year’s L’OREAL – UNESCO “For Women in Science” contest. Prof. Skorb spoke with t…

  20.05.2019

• Light in the City: How Light Affects Our Mood and Emotions

  …by aggressive advertisements and attracted to neutral images with interesting content. What is color temperature and how it affects our mood Color temperature is a characteristic of visible light (the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye), measured in Kelvin (K). The Kelvin temperatures typically fall between a range of 1,000…

  20.05.2019

• ITMO Physicists Found New Way to Optimize Nanoparticles and Light Interaction

• Social Animals: What Makes Us Human

  …ven if you do not agree with them, you understand that these are the rules. Internal conformity: you yourself accept the “rules of the game.” Negativism: a quality characteristic of those who go against the majority opinion. Negativism is all about doing the opposite, and such behavior is often associated with teenagers. Negativism is anticonformity, and should…

  17.05.2019

• Two-Minute Beach Cleans and Plastic-Identifying AI: How Citizen Science Combats Plastic Waste in Oceans

  …atabase for the presence of plastic or other marine litter. You’ll have to tag every piece of litter you spot by marking it in squares and identifying its type and/or source material. The Big Microplastic survey: gathering and analyzing litter on the shores The Big Microplastic survey is a global research project making use of citizen science for gathering impo…

  16.05.2019

• ITMO Portfolio Contest: Winners’ Tips for Success

  … Thanks to my excellent marks and participation in research activities, by my fourth Bachelor’s year, I already had enough articles and successful grant applications, so entering a Master’s program via a portfolio contest was an obvious choice. The advantage here is that you get to learn your results earlier than if you had followed the traditional method. I t…

  15.05.2019

• “Expert” Analytical Center Subject Rankings: ITMO University Becomes 2019 Leader in Computer Science, Engineering and Chemistry

  …publishes annual subject rankings of Russia’s best universities. The center’s experts review universities in 14 subject areas: engineering, computer science, mathematics, materials science, Earth sciences, social sciences, chemical technologies, chemistry, physics, energetics, humanities, life sciences, economics and medicine. They consider universities that have …

  13.05.2019

• Researcher from University College London on Building a Career Abroad and Networking

  … design of equipment for fetal therapy and surgery. As of now, I’m currently developing my own project in the field of 3D printing technologies. When working with various materials, I had long cherished the idea of starting something of my own, something new. There is nothing wrong with working in a team on someone else’s project, but if you want to achieve someth…

  13.05.2019

• Places to See: Libraries of St. Petersburg

  …Gogol Library The Gogol Library is a self-described “multimedia space for education, work, and leisure”, and there are few reasons to doubt that. With a modern, comfy interior and a spacious work area, this is a great place to spend the day working – or taking some well-deserved time off. Where: Sredneokhtinsky Pr., 8 Tue. 12 to 8 PM; Wed-Sun 11 AM to 8 PM …

  10.05.2019