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

  … University’s leadership and governance models are underpinned by four key factors: the external expert assessment of the International and Supervisory Councils, which define the direction of the university’s strategic development; the decisions of the Academic Council, 25% of which are composed of students and which provides a platform for active discussions and bra…

  05.02.2020

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

  … blueprint for the lighting company, marking the points of support, cable lengths, the positions of wires and racks. This stage also includes providing contractors with detailed production documentation.  Pre-programming. To save time in the future, the lighting designer assembles the scheme of the program, activates the control panel and programs the whole show. I…

  04.02.2020

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

  …synthesize “bad” proteins, not the ones that our body needs. As a result, the cells begin to multiply uncontrollably and the tumor grows bigger and bigger.” However, if the production of disease-related proteins is blocked, the cancer cells will no longer be able to multiply and will start to die out. There are different technologies out there designed to solve …

  04.02.2020

• Three St. Petersburg Museums to Visit Now

  …The State Hermitage The most famous museum in St. Petersburg, the State Hermitage needs no introduction.  Think the beautiful State Rooms of the Winter Palace that housed the Russian Royal family for 200 years, and a world-class art collection that ranges from seventh-century BC Scythian gold to Rembrandt,  Titian, Giorgione and Leon…

  03.02.2020

• ITMO University Scientist Sergey Makarov Receives President of Russia Award

  …t heat up but at the same time manages to redirect the light. It has to be mentioned that a light-induced change in its internal properties can lead to significant changes in the direction of scattering. In other words, while usually light falls on it and scatters forward, if you act on the nanoparticle sideways using a special control pulse, it will begin to scatter…

  03.02.2020

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

  … factors contributing to global warming. These agents in particular add to the greenhouse effect.  At the School of Biotechnology and Cryogenic Systems we develop energy usage reduction solutions. Energy consumption leads to atmospheric CO2 emissions, which affect the environment – and that is why we aim to create energy-efficient technologies. This is how we see …

  03.02.2020

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

  …ry concept of virtuality is lost for good.  The philosophy of networks and networks as philosophy The internet is in its core a network, an extremely complex system of connections between numerous devices and computers. It is comforting to think that it abides by certain rules and algorithms, that is has a logical inner structure, but it was true only at th…

  31.01.2020

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

  … path on which a wheelchair user won’t encounter any obstacles and can move freely. The map also changes in real-time mode to provide information about fallen trees or road works. Functioning in the same way is the emergency navigation system for citizens and emergency services. Using similar algorithms during the 2012 earthquake, it was possible to plan optimal rout…

  31.01.2020

• Yimer Getnet: Food Biotechnology is a Promising Field and I Want to Be Part of It

  …ause I want to be an expert in food biotechnology for all the possibilities it has. Can you elaborate more on why you chose this field? Well, food biotechnology deals with production processes, including bioengineering, that makes food.  I have always felt a fascination with this discipline. Ethiopian economy depends on agriculture but most of the country’s agr…

  30.01.2020

• Myths about Aging and Its Reversibility

  …comes a bunch of genetic mistakes and mutations that continue to replicate themselves. But everything is not that bad, as each of us has the sirtuin protein (SIRT6). One of its functions is to block the replication of repeating elements of DNA (those “viruses” that we were talking about), as well as restore the breakages in DNA chains. The problem is that its effi…

  30.01.2020