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• The Art of Managing the University of the Future: A Roundtable on Effective University Governance Held in St. Petersburg

  …a, Director of the Center for Philanthropy Studies and Social Business Programs of Ural Federal University’s Graduate School of Economics and Management. Starting the discussion, Vadim Volkov identified key problems of university management. Firstly, how to evaluate whether a university and the way it’s managed are successful or unsuccessful? After all, being not …

  05.02.2020

• Active Learning: 7 Ways to Increase Students’ Motivation and Engagement

  …ion of knowledge should be based on a student’s interest and fascination with a topic they potentially would dedicate their life’s work to. With that in mind, make sure to occasionally practice non-graded learning so that students won’t be afraid to say or ask something wrong because that would cost them their grades. “This will come in handy in your work!” …

  05.02.2020

• The Work of a Lighting Designer: Creating Magic on Concerts and Fashion Shows

  …ight director and a lighting designer. But if we take a closer look, it becomes clear that they are actually responsible for different things. A lighting technician is a professional dealing with lighting setup and managing the equipment. Stage light directors can sometimes take on the job of a lighting designer, but mostly they are responsible for programming the li…

  04.02.2020

• ITMO University Researchers’ Work on DNA-Based Nanorobot for Cancer Diagnostics

  …To evaluate the efficiency of this method, the researchers studied the KRAS gene. In most oncological diseases, it serves as a “molecular switch” for the induction of cell division. To test the effectiveness of the RNA cleavage of this gene, the researchers created conditions close to the environment inside a living cell. As a result, the nanorobot was able to detect…

  04.02.2020

• Three St. Petersburg Museums to Visit Now

  …enth-century BC Scythian gold to Rembrandt,  Titian, Giorgione and Leonardo.  Across the Palace Square, the General Staff Building is home to a fabulous collection of Impressionist art and thought-provoking temporary exhibitions, like a recent one on AI in art.  They say it takes months to explore the Hermitage, but getting lost here is just part of the fun. I …

  03.02.2020

• ITMO University Scientist Sergey Makarov Receives President of Russia Award

  …ht size of the nanoparticles and the right material – this is iron oxide, in other words, ordinary rust. Temperature control is made possible by the fact that there is a dispersion spectrum which we can immediately register when heating-up happens. Based on its change, we can identify the nanoparticle’s local temperature up to the degree. Thus, we’re able to locally …

  03.02.2020

• Global Warming and Cold: How Refrigeration Industry Reacts to Contemporary Challenges

  …lobal warming. It brings together not only our own students, but also specialists from all over Russia as well as international experts. Oleg Tsvetkov, who moderated the discussion, has been studying this problem since the 1970s and is an acclaimed expert in the field. We are happy to host such an event at our department.  Global warming is a well-known and active…

  03.02.2020

• Social Sciences in the Era of Social Networks: Studying Selfies, Likes and Geotags

  …cial networks can be applied in different fields. Marketing specialists use it to develop marketing strategies, urbanists consult them to create a better public utilities provision system while entrepreneurs can analyze it to establish their specialization and future audience. Meanwhile, sociologists and anthropologists address the modern society problems: the way ne…

  31.01.2020

• Smart Cities, Robot Bureaucrats: Japanese Digitalization Expert on Building the Right Kind of Society 5.0

  …ata and integration of artificial intelligence in all spheres of life.  Mr. Zamma started by underlining that he wasn’t going to paint aт idealistic picture where every decision on the way of creating Society 5.0 was right, and every stage turned out to be successful. “Today, I want to speak about society 5.0, as well as the digital government in Japan: w…

  31.01.2020

• Myths about Aging and Its Reversibility

  …urprisingly, we can answer this question through the example of HIV patients who get highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). This treatment method is based on the suppression of reverse transcriptase (which is essentially what SIRT6 does) that encodes the HIV ferment over and over. Incredible as it may seem, patients who take antiretroviral drugs on a regular b…

  30.01.2020