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• Amusement or Science: The Role of Modern Museums

  …demy of Sciences it became an academic institution. Many renowned Russian scientists, including Mikhail Lomonosov, worked there; rare and unusual items were brought there for studying and systematization. In the 1830-s, seven independent academic museums were opened on the base of the Kunstkammer: Ethnographic, Asian, Egyptian, Anatomical, Zoological, Botanic, and Pe…

  31.01.2017

• Creating Quartz-Based Nanocomposites: ITMO’s New International Collaboration

  …e range of application. Still, not just any material can be used for creating nanostructure composites. Researchers from ITMO University and Jean Monnet University plan to study the use of porous quartz glass. Regular quartz is a tenacious, thermally, chemically and electrically stable material; its structure is really hard to change. Thus, it is no good for creat…

  27.01.2017

• Wild Potato for the Welfare of Cultivated Vegetables

• New Priorities in Education: A Press Conference by the Minister of Education

  …unity to understand his interests and skills, so as to choose a more narrow focus for one’s master's program. Bachelor's graduates can adapt a lot easier, as they continue to study. What is more, they always have the opportunity to apply for a master's program in different field", comments Ms. Vasilyeva. Extra entrance examinations work well with technical unive…

  26.01.2017

• Master’s Student on Cryptocurrencies and How to Organize an IT Business

  …+ and Java. Many people believe that Haskell is a very difficult language used for math calculations. However I like this development tool more than others. When I started studying at the Computer Technology Department, I planned to became a programmer, or mathematician or scientist or to combine all these activities. All programming languages that we studied seem…

  24.01.2017

• Third Session of Hermitage’s Art&Science Project: How Air Harms Paintings and Why Would One Make a Mold of Grass?

  …e information on how a painting initially looked like. Yet, we can understand which color was used for each element of the painting. From a historian's point of view, we also study the conditions people lived in and the tools they used. Vadim Fishkin, artist and professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Russia/Slovenia): "Light" Matters: all around the …

  23.01.2017

• VIII Gaidar Forum: Russia’s Leading Experts on the Future of Education

  …ompetition. As for the relevance of continuous education, according to research by the Higher School of Economics, in Russia, only 10% of people aged 40 and older continue to study. In Germany that would be 40%, in Sweden — 60%. Mr. Mau also believes that entrepreneurship is important for a 3.0 university, but not as its main field of activity; yet, universities are …

  21.01.2017

• New Faculty Opens Its Doors for Bachelors

  …o development of programs for Bachelors and organizational work. Next year, we will pay more attention to Master’s programs. Recently, ITMO won two grants — the first one for studying perovskvites (the project is headed by Anvar Zakhidov), and the second one for researching hybrid light-matter states in low-dimensional quantum materials (guided by Morris Skolnick)," …

  19.01.2017

• Genome Editing Will Help Cure HIV

  … of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Transplantology led by Professor Boris Fehse and Professor Boris Afanasiev. ITMO University. Marina Popova "The method is based on studying the changes in the DNA sequences. We use site-specific genome editing to simulate the mutation that provides the cell's resilience to HIV. If that is done with bone marrow cells, then a…

  19.01.2017

• From Julius Caesar to Now: Migraine Is More than Just a Headache

  …ad, but sometimes it can move to another. According to ITMO’s researchers, it can be explained by abnormal blood supply peculiar to people with migraine [Read more about this study here -Ed.]. Myth № 4: Migraine has been studied well Some say that migraine, as any other type of headache, is a neurological disease. On one hand, it is correct, but on other, migr…

  18.01.2017