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Experience St. Petersburg Like a Local: Petrogradsky District
…hat it’s not just about beautiful facades. If you turn right at the House with Two Towers, a block later you’ll find yourself at Karpovka, a small river wide enough just for the reflections of the houses on both of its sides. The area that stretches to the right was once a half-abandoned yacht club but, thanks to the efforts of the local community, last year it under…
07.07.2020
ITMO Students to Assess the Quality of Teaching and Learning
…riteria: how well the teacher managed to organize the curriculum, how communication with students took place and how effective it was, whether students were satisfied with this interaction. Subjects are evaluated separately, with questions on how thorough and useful were learning materials, whether subjects were taught in a high-quality way, and whether students perc…
07.07.2020
ITMO Students’ Foodsharing App Wins at Digital Breakthrough Hackathon
…ided to combine the two. How does the app work? The users log onto the app to share food. When they post a notice, other users nearby receive a notification. We set it up to function quickly and show users only recent and relevant offers. This is actually one of the key issues: when you’re dealing with food, everything must be done quickly, while posts in so…
06.07.2020
ITMO University Holds a Pilot Course on Organizing Volunteering Activity
… the volunteering movement by integrating volunteering into the education process and introducing a course on the organization of a university’s volunteering activities and its interaction with nonprofit organizations. The course was taught at ITMO University from March to May 2020, taking up a little more than the ministry-mandated 72 academic hours. “Two…
06.07.2020
Public Council of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education Discusses a Report on Higher Education During the Pandemic
…Friday July 3, an online session was held of the Public Council of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education. It focused on the novel coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the functioning of Russian higher education institutions. The meeting’s participants discussed the report developed by the rectors of 13 leading Russian universities, which examined how the cou…
03.07.2020
ITMO University Researchers Become First in Russia to Grow a Three-Dimensional Gallous Oxide Single-Crystal Ingot
… Future plans Now, the researchers have to hone their technique and then they’ll be ready to start searching for commercial partners who would be capable of setting up production of much-needed gallous oxide support surfaces that would be used to create semiconductor crystals for electronics. “Now that we’ve created a three-dimensional crystalline mate…
03.07.2020
Geek Picnic Online: Lectures in Minecraft, Discussions Galore, and a Virtual Party on Mars
…echnologies Exist?” on the standalone platform Geek Kids. All activities were held on several stages – each with its own theme. Qualifying as the most scientific one was the NonFiction stage, opened with a presentation by Elizabeth Tasker – a famous British astrophysicist, author of the bestselling book The Planet Factory, and associate professor at the Japan Aer…
02.07.2020
ITMO Fellow Ananya Das: I Came to St. Petersburg for Applied Research
…which are all biocompatible. That’s why carbon dots can be used in live cells. I witnessed such an experiment. Moreover, carbon dots can be used in photovoltaics, and in diode production. Though I have only been synthesizing these materials and studying their optical properties. My goal for now is to start applying them in real-life conditions – and that is why I a…
02.07.2020
Lyubov Petrova: You Have to Come up With Tactics That Will Help You Win the Competition
… a favorite? I’ve had many trips to compete all over Russia, even one where I went to Belarus. My favorite would probably be the city of Belgorod. I visited it last autumn in connection with a trip to the Russian Sports Tourism Championship. I remember the warm weather, the difficult terrain and beautiful landscapes. Do you have any hacks for being in your …
02.07.2020
Wargaming Specialist Hosts Intensive Course for Master’s Students of Game Development Technologies
…ist at Wargaming, dealt with practical methods of developing a game as a concept and a commercial product. During the course, which took place over four days and consisted of three sections, Svyatoslav spoke about the various tools used by his company. The first tool is the gamecraft methodology, which is used to quickly develop an initial idea into a full-fledged wo…
01.07.2020