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• Light, Health, and Interior Design: LIGHT4HEALTH Summer School at ITMO

  …conditions, for example, when designing lighting for NASA space shuttles," says Svetlana Kolgushkina. Students were not only able to practice working with light using scientific and practical knowledge, but also got acquainted with the life of a small English town and gain rich experience in intercultural communication. "In general, there are three inte…

  16.09.2019

• Healthy Living: Five Tips for Staying Positive

  …up with friends or an early night in. Sleep well. Good-quality sleep is instrumental for your overall health. Matthew Walker, a sleep expert from the Center for Human Sleep Science at the University of California, says that if there was one thing he would tell people, it would be “to go to bed and wake up at the same time every day, no matter what”. How to achieve…

  13.09.2019

• Ecuador to Russia: Taking the Leap

  …s a perfect opportunity to do that, especially for Latin Americans like me. There aren’t many Russians in our part of the world. Secondly, my area of study is applied computer science, and Russians have a reputation as talented computer scientists. What do you find so interesting about the Russian language? It wasn’t a spontaneous…

  12.09.2019

• Maker Faire Program Director Sabrina Merlo: Most People Are Already Makers

  …edom to create, and a free exchange of ideas, technologies, and concepts. The American maker community even publishes its own magazine, Make, and hosts the massive festival of science, arts, and engineering Maker Faire. In 2014, the U.S. President Barack Obama even invited members of the maker community to the White House. In early September, a similar festival was h…

  12.09.2019

• “I am a Professional” Winners on Challenges and Benefits of the Contest

  …chenko enrolled in the ‘Instruments and Methods for Monitoring thenvironment, Substances, Materials and Products” program Before joining ITMO University, I studied Computer Science and Computer Engineering at Tver State Technical University. I often participated in international and Russian competitions and scientific festivals, but …

  12.09.2019

• ITMO University in Global Top-500 According to Latest THE Rankings

  … Ilya Kuftiryov. He also adds that successful attraction of research funding and co-financing of the University’s projects by partner companies reflects on its financial, scientific, and reputational performance in the rankings. “As for predicting future points of growth, I believe that I would not be mistaken if I point to the University’s reputation score…

  11.09.2019

• Emotions You Can Touch: St. Petersburg Researchers' Unique Science Art Project

  …eir collaboration by creating a sort of an R&D class where they will conduct future research in this field and experiment with art therapy. Abstract paintings, adjacent sciences and synesthesia Mikhail Klimovskiy believes that all future inventions will be made at the interface of different fields of science.  “It’s obvio…

  10.09.2019

• We Want To Make Podcasts Better: ITMO Master’s Students Launch St. Petersburg-Based Podcast Studio

• Vaccines: Everything You Need to Know

  …ve (dead), subunit, anatoxin, and genetically engineered vaccines. In essence, they depict the history of the development of vaccines over the past three centuries. Initially, scientists believed that to ensure immunity, the disease could only be killed at the microscopic scale. Then, they understood that using an entire cell – resulting in fever and convulsions – is…

  09.09.2019

• Founder of ITMO Accelerator Resident GoRobo on Robotics and Entrepreneurship

  …one or two days a week in the classroom with children, talking with them about robotics and monitoring their progress. “I would very much like one of our kids to become a scientist or engineer. I hope that someday I will visit a major tech company and meet my former students there,” concludes Eldar. …

  09.09.2019