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• Fighting Hibernation: Is It Springtime Yet?

  …s time for hibernation to get to you. If you can spend a little more time walking instead of using public transport, do so: you’ll feel all the more alive when you take this stroll, while half-sleeping in a bus will just revert you to the state of drowsiness you fought so hard to wake up from. And even if there’s no choice but to take the subway, stand instead of sit…

  26.02.2019

• How Researchers Use Big Data to Fight HIV and Addiction

  …be used to solve issues. There is also the National Institute of Health (NIH), who are interested in the scientific aspects and providing expertise. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also supports our research related to reducing overdose rates and developing painkiller prescription guidelines. A few years ago, we worked with the topic of balance…

  25.02.2019

• Helping Sleepwalkers, Fighting Excessive Snow and Ensuring Better Security on Campus: Best Projects by 2019 “It’s Your Call!” Participants

  …artphone where a special app would respond by generating a signal leading the patient out of a deep sleep cycle. The winning team’s participants were granted the right to enroll in Master’s and PhD programs at ITMO University without additional entrance tests. Second place: biometric identification system Members of this team worked on a biometric identi…

  25.02.2019

• Yandex Director of Marketing Andrey Sebrant: We’re Living in the Age of Implementation

• Forbes Science and Technology Editor on Communicating Research

  … and so on. Nevertheless, many people, Yandex's co-founder Arkady Volozh included, stressed that they have always known Calvey as an honest man who never attempted to take control of and drain the companies he’s been working with. If Calvey didn't have such a reputation with investors, if journalists didn't know that for 25 years he's been investing in compani…

  22.02.2019

• Unexplored Saint Petersburg: The Bolshoi State Circus

  …was five or six. I remember the heavy doors, the marble staircase,  the scent of fresh sawdust, the red velvet of the seats and the hush that falls around the arena as the drumroll rocks the house. It was pure magic. As the live orchestra took their first note and the curtain lifted, giddy kids slid to the edge of their seats to watch riders do death-defying tric…

  22.02.2019

• How to Get a Job in Game Development

  …evelopment Technologies’ Master’s program: I would advise everyone to start off as an indie developer: it can be a great source of passive income if you’ve got the self-control for it. You’ll still be able to join a company later (and you’ll already have something in your portfolio, to boot), but creativity and vigor go away with age. Besides, I think that many pe…

  21.02.2019

• Career Guidance Hackathon: Winning Projects

  …help the citizens of St. Petersburg learn about new interesting places while playing. Registered users will be able to choose quests to their liking when they head out for a stroll. Apart from the winning projects, the jury denoted several individual projects that can help facilitate various educational processes. EduCI by Denis Tereshinko helps lecturers save tim…

  20.02.2019

• Lectures on International Business and a Medieval Feast: ITMO Master's Student on the Winter School at the Prague University of Finance and Administration

  …also solved cases for such renowned consulting companies as McKinsey and Oliver Wyman, as well as corporations such as Mars, Unilever, MTS, Raiffeisenbank and others. When I enrolled in my Master's program, I had more experience in business and consulting than in physics, even though I did an internship in Ireland during the last year of my Bachelor's program. At tha…

  20.02.2019

• “It’s Your Call!” Winter School Launched at ITMO University

  …ills and public speaking. These skills will come in handy when the students begin working on their projects. Just like a year before, the winners will get the opportunity to enroll in Master’s and PhD programs at ITMO University without having to take entrance exams. The Winter School emphasizes interdisciplinary skills, and therefore all students will be sort…

  19.02.2019