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• ITMO University's Award for Achievement in Education

  …he ITMO.EduLeaders competition is intended for ITMO University professors who have successfully implemented original educational projects (new educational tools, new formats of interaction with students, online courses, and so on). The competition is held in ten categories in two main tracks: Professors (for all professors); Junior professors (for those pr…

  30.10.2020

• Bringing a Young Russian Startup to USA Step-by-Step: Advice & Lifehacks from Investor Mikhail Gavrilov

  …n Russia and collect 100,000 rubles in sales, they will arrive at the other side of the pond and say, “Look at me, I am cool”. American investors will only care about the American traction,” says Mikhail. Americans also don't know much about Russian education.That’s why one of the ways to be recognized is to take online courses in American universities.   Acc…

  30.10.2020

• Picture of the Week: An Atomic Force Microscope Celebrates Halloween

  …pation” of the surface with a probe that is located on the end of a long elastic rod – the dark narrow stripe seen in the picture above. The microscope is called atomic because it functions thanks to the force interaction of atoms. The photograph seen above was produced by a camera installed inside the microscope. The yellow backgrou…

  30.10.2020

• Artificial Meat and What It’s All About: 10 Top Questions

  …Contents: What is artificial meat? How is it made? Does its production harm animals? Are there any health benefits? What does it taste like? Could you make a steak with it? Could artificial meat become a substitute for the real thing? What advantages does it have? What are its drawbacks? In what other ways can we replace beef, pork, chicken, a…

  29.10.2020

• Allergist Olga Zhogoleva on Evidence-Based Medicine and Myths

  …in 2007), all these popular double-blind placebo-controlled studies were explained to us as something great, but also very difficult to achieve. The models of doctor-patient interaction differ around the world. In Cambridge, for example, doctors have been studying the science of communicating with patients for years. We’ve studied it for a few weeks in medical bio…

  29.10.2020

• BizCycle Founders Develop Three New Bike Routes in Leningrad Oblast

  …rental services, visit private museums, and so on. However, the creators emphasize that the tourists will be only able to follow some parts of the routes and visit only selected attractions. The Historical route lies between Vyborg and Priozersk. It includes a medieval castle in Vyborg, Korela fortress in Priozersk, as well as military defence lines, abandoned…

  29.10.2020

• ITMO University Expands Its Presence in Times Higher Education Subject Rankings

  …anities, Life sciences, Education, Psychology, and Law.  The ranking’s evaluations are based on the same 13 indicators as used in the global ranking. These are grouped into five sections: Teaching (reputation and quality of staff); Research (volume, income, and reputation); Citations (research influence); International outlook (ratio of international students and …

  28.10.2020

• Research Team from ITMO University, St. Petersburg State University, and Nova Southeastern University Is the First to Sequence the Genome of Moss Animals

  …are a colonial, so to say, a modular organism. It means that inside of what seems to be one organism, there are actually several of them. Each of them is responsible for a certain function: reproduction, nutrition, or attachment to the surface.” Obstacles they had to face Even though moss animals can be potentially used for …

  28.10.2020

• ITMO Scientists Demonstrate Record-Breaking Light Coupling into Optical Fiber at Large Incidence Angles

  …ly decreases at large incidence angles. It happens so fast that at the incidence angle of 15 degrees, the efficiency drops almost to zero. This deficiency significantly limits the functional capabilities and the potential of optical fibers application. In collaboration with the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Germany) and Australian National University, …

  27.10.2020

• What is Hyaluronic Acid and Where Can We Apply It?

  …ccuring polymer that can be found in human and animal cells as well as the pericellular and intercellular spaces surrounding these cells.  Hyaluronic acid has a number of vital functions in living organisms: it participates in cell division, serves the process of nutrient transfer and metabolite extraction from cells, holds large qua…

  27.10.2020