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• ITMO Researchers Create an Algorithm To Help Reduce the Risk of Complications in Cardiovascular Diseases

  …nity – they are the number one cause of death in the world. Moreover, the death rate of heart disease keeps growing, while strokes and heart attacks are getting “younger.” For instance, working-age Russians die from cardiovascular diseases eight times more often than Norwegians in the same age group.  The development of cardiovascular diseases is hard to predict. …

  20.05.2021

• ITMO Technopark Takes Part in the German Week in St. Petersburg

  …ne-Westphalia Tatiana Kryachkova, deputy head of NRW.Global Business Russia, made a presentation on hydrogen economy  – an economy that relies on more eco-friendly hydrogen instead of coal, oil, or gas. She discussed Germany’s National Hydrogen Strategy that was launched in 2020, and about its implementation in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, one of the main …

  20.05.2021

• Latvian Student on the Challenges of Distance Learning and Closed Borders

  …an information vacuum. Not all teachers contacted me, so I sometimes had to study the material independently. I was terribly annoyed that I had to write essays in all subjects instead of learning them. After all, I am supposed to be a bioengineer, not a copywriter. This annoyed me so much that last semester I thought of taking a sabbatical. The only thing that sto…

  20.05.2021

• ITMO Hosts First Russian Hult Prize Impact Summit Supported by UN

  …and sell the product directly to customers. Team Food Development Project from Ankara University, Turkey, came up with a technology to extract protein from unrequited food remains, while team Food Engineers from the Malawi Polytechnic (University of Malawi) introduced a prototype of fruit and vegetable dryer that works on solar energy and natural heat. Finally, th…

  19.05.2021

• Kotlin Creator Andrey Breslav on His Psychotherapy Finder Service

  …he relationship but his personal problems that he had to work on: anxiety, high expectations for himself, and so on. This way, Andrey began to see psychotherapy as not just an instrument for solving specific problems but rather an essential element of self-improvement – and this had a great effect on his attitude towards the whole thing. The specialist who worked …

  19.05.2021

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: May 22-23, 2021

  …ween figures of giant elephants, monkeys, and rhinos, you are invited to see them through the eyes of your inner child and remember what it feels like to be all-knowing. Quite inspirational, don’t you think?   SpbTransportFest May 21-22 City center Free SpbTransportFest is an international transport festival that will be held in St. Petersburg for t…

  19.05.2021

• Mind-Blowing Research of the Month: How and Why We Study Music’s Effects on the Brain

  … all its vastness: there are so many components in music, each of them contributing to the way in which the resulting works affect us. Apart from minor and major melodies, for instance, we can study rhythms, which can be simple and complex. Simple ones are highly periodic and easy to predict with strong beats always adhering to a pattern. Complex rhythms, on the othe…

  18.05.2021

• ITMO Robotics Team Wins RoboCup Russia Open

  … presented in the RCJ OnStage Preliminary Secondary category. It’s one of 10 categories of the competition, as part of which the robots must perform: dance, sing, play musical instruments, and entertain the audience. ITMO’s team consisted of Dmitry Yakovlev, Dmitry Kovalko, Elina Knyazeva, Nikita Luskin, and Valery Rybin, as well as their coach Igor Lositskiy. Rob…

  18.05.2021

• ITMO Hosts School for Young Scientists

  …lor’s years, and help develop in this direction,” notes Mikhail Kurushkin. “If a person is promising, all you need is to open the door for them. For this purpose, one needs an institution of advisors who can show such students the diversity of various scientific projects, as well as the prospects they open for a young scientist.” Participants’ opinions The sc…

  18.05.2021

• 5 Expat Blogs in St. Petersburg

  …s of teaching English, she received professional training as a tour guide and now offers tours of St. Petersburg. Her blog SAFS (Ships Are For Sailing) has its own website and Instagram page. On the blog, Stacey shares tips and advice on living in St. Petersburg and takes you on mini cultural tours and experiences around the city through her regular stories. Stacey a…

  17.05.2021