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• ITMO Hosts EduLeaders Best Educational Projects Contest Final

  …ch other – while those with less experience had a separate contest. This way, we wanted to support young lecturers and create equal competition conditions,” says Kristina Krushinskaya, lead engineer at ITMO’s Office of Educational Technologies.  In total, 40 lecturers applied to take part in the ITMO.EduLeaders contest – including 16 new lecturers. They part…

  05.04.2021

• More Than Panels: Cool Soviet Experiments on Residential Buildings

  …l the required qualities. The need for housing was so high that design and usability were put to second place, resulting in thousands of residential buildings mostly identical inside and outside. These blocks were supposed to have a lifespan of 25-30 years, but the USSR сollapsed, leaving its citizens with a heritage of panel buildings or, colloquially, “panelki”, wi…

  05.04.2021

• From Screen to Life: A Movie Guide to St. Petersburg

  …ayfully creates obstacles to separate the twosome who are just a step, a turn, apart and makes their feelings grow stronger.  The movie is filled with landmarks from the Belinskogo Bridge to the Swan Canal. The protagonists first meet in Leo Tolstoy Square, dominated by the neogothic House with Two Towers, in the Petrogradsky District. A gloomy gem of the Northern…

  02.04.2021

• ITMO Scientists Propose a New Model for Study of Bone Development

  …ar how different amino acids and other substances influence the growth and healing of bones. “Scientists today are eager to understand how amino acids, hormones, and vitamins influence different processes that take place in our bodies and tissues,” says Svetlana Ulasevich, an associate professor and researcher at ITMO University. “There is a hypothesis that amin…

  02.04.2021

• Bachelor’s and PhD Admissions Now Open at ITMO University

  … School of Translational Information Technologies School of Photonics School of Biotechnology and Cryogenic Systems Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations Institute of International Development and Partnership The next step is picking an educational program. This year, ITMO University offers 25 Bachelor’s programs, 63 Master’s programs, and …

  01.04.2021

• TECHNOHISTORY Conference: Biohacking, Neuroart, and Women of Bauhaus

  …ernment of St. Petersburg and invited to join a special project dedicated to the Сity Day from Tochka Kipeniya (“Boiling Point”). The project actively collaborates with the Institute of the History of St. Petersburg State University and ITMO University. Its curators are history professors and lecturers, including Andrey Vasilyev, Galina Zhirkova, Nikita Prigodich,…

  01.04.2021

• Social Media Knows Everything: Threats and Risks

  …ions, navigated through the pages, and spent a specific amount of time on each. All these actions can be represented as data. Most often, this data is in tabular form and contains a minimum amount of information, for example, user ID, time of visiting the website’s section, the amount of time spent there, etc. How do algorithms draw conclusions about us?  …

  31.03.2021

• The Future of Hard Drives: Hot Bits and Laser Recordings

  …ate drives (SSDs). This, however, does not mean that HDDs are becoming obsolete.   “Cloud services are actually based on the principles of magnetic storage, which remains to be the most cost- and energy efficient of its kind,” notes Alexandra Kalashnikova. “That’s why it requires further research. According to the latest forecasts, there will be HDDs with ov…

  31.03.2021

• ITMO University Professor Sergey Makarov Receives Elsevier’s Research Excellence Award Russia 2021

  …h the support of the Russian Union of Rectors, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Science Foundation, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the Russian Research Institute of Economics, Politics and Law in Science and Technology (RIEPL), and the international news agency Rossiya Segodnya.…

  30.03.2021

• Live Your Best Spring in St. Petersburg

  …sking in the sunlight finally flooding the streets? Whatever slush is still on the ground is definitely not enough to stop us! Try skipping your usual bus commute to walk home instead – even if it takes hours. If you choose the day correctly, you are almost guaranteed to discover new corners of the city, guided by dappled sunlight reflecting from every surface.  H…

  30.03.2021