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• University of Memphis’ Zabihollah Rezaee on Sustainability and Ethics in Business

  …rea. I also talk about the various global events like financial crises and scandals. What is the main focus of your course? What should the students take away from it? I want students to walk away having learned about the role of business in society. It’s important to me that they understand the responsibility that boards of directors and manufacturers have to …

  18.05.2018

• ScienceMedia-2018: Russian Student Media

  …to work without any incentives, of course, but why should everything rest solely on money and awards? An idea is always at the heart of everything, and if people like it, they want to implement and develop it and everything comes their way. I liked the idea behind Kerosin, so I joined its team. I study Mechanical Engineering. Even though this field has nothing to do …

  17.05.2018

• Culture of the Future Laboratory: Experts Disclose the Future of Art&Science

  …rdisciplinary program sector of the board of The National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) which is part of the ROSIZO exhibition center. “During our first project, we wanted to tap into what the logic of art is about. That event, which was part of the “TECHNE. Preface” exhibition had little to do with technology. This time, we are going along with a more com…

  17.05.2018

• Bike Ride with the Rector: St. Petersburg Best Routes

  … Bolsheokhtinsky and Alexander Nevsky Bridges. Alexei Itin, head of the Student Media Department, and I came up with this route when we were students. We just bought bikes and wanted to come up with a nice route that would be both long and not very popular. I still remember the first time we rode this route; it was raining heavily, and we came home at 5 am, but it wa…

  17.05.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: May 19-20

  …tire tour, and will give you access to well over 100 museums. Tickets can be purchased in any of the museums and the city’s ticketing offices. If you are a nature lover and want some peace of mind, Tulip Festival on Elagin Island is exactly the thing for you. Thousands of tulips will be in full bloom, including some very rare species, e.g. black tulips. This year,…

  16.05.2018

• ITMO Graduates Reflect on True Value of Education

  …sted and went to the head of our department, Sergei Kozlov (who was recently awarded the title "Honored Science Worker of the Russian Federation" -- Ed.), and told him that we want to do science. At that point, we knew nothing about science and how it’s done. Still, Sergei Arkadyevich was quite favorable to us, and we started to cooperate with the department and the …

  15.05.2018

• Computer Simulation to Make Cities Cleaner

  … didn’t think about how people would approach it or how they would walk to the metro and other attraction points, so the yard was always muddy as people walked on the lawns. I wanted to solve this problem. First I submitted numerous requests to the local authorities and asked them to make paths in particular places. Now I know that it takes the authorities about thre…

  14.05.2018

• Motion Capture, VR and Video 360: New Technologies Enter Classical Art

  …s recently staged at the Comediant’s Shelter (a musical theatre in St. Petersburg -- Ed.). Yuri is open to artistic novelties, and we already have a great idea, though I don’t want to disclose it yet. VR is now being widely introduced into classical art, much like video mapping and lighting technologies. Which technologies and opportunities do you find most promis…

  14.05.2018

• Physicist Yuri Kivshar on Russian Science, Career Management and Metaoptics

  …ese changes when you speak to your Russian colleagues? Absolutely. Russian scientists used to be eager to be published anywhere, and now they’ve become “spoiled”: they only want to be published in the good places, somewhere they’ll be noticed and cited. And that’s a new level. When I got the grant in 2010, I spoke to Pavel and asked him what sort of results he …

  11.05.2018

• How Citizen Science Helps in “True” Research

  …eate a way of solving the problem. Another project that is developing in London and connected with maps is “Mapping for Change”. Both individuals and organizations that want to understand, improve and use information about the places most important for them can use the service. It actually offers a wide range of services and is based on an online cartographic …

  11.05.2018