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• Researchers from ITMO and University of Toronto Develop Non-Antibiotic Material to Fight Infection and Mend Wounds

  … antibacterial ointments to lessen the risk of an infection that might end up being more dangerous than the injury itself. A group of researchers at ITMO University’s SCAMT Institute and the University of Toronto has proposed biomaterial-based dressings with antibacterial properties for wound healing. Rubbing gel into the wound The new material, develope…

  23.11.2020

• Picture of the Week: Light-Emitting Perovskite

  … so simple: in order to produce blue luminescence, it’s necessary to mix chloride and bromide ions within the perovskite. Another drawback that these perovskites have is their instability, which results in a spectrum (color) shift when subject to an electrical current. In order to produce a stable sample, researchers at ITMO have taken a new approach. The thin fil…

  23.11.2020

• Gennady Korotkevich Wins Topcoder Open's Algorithm Track for Second Year in Row

• Russia on Film: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

  …Union but, I guess, Lenin is still hiding somewhere (and we all know where). But the USSR is for sure thriving in Red Sparrow (2018). The school’s interior with faded red curtains and mosaics makes you want to grab your hammer and sickle and complete your five-year plan in just three years. Vodka, matryoshka dolls, bears, and ushankas Do you remember Arnold Sch…

  23.11.2020

• School of Translational Information Technologies Head Alexander Boukhanovsky Named Dean of the Year

  …dds that the School is based on the “confederative principle,” meaning that all of its faculties work together to maintain ITMO University’s reputation as an interdisciplinary institution. “We see information technologies not as “servants of science,” solely to be used to automate functions and perform calculations, but the opposite – as a lever that can take an…

  20.11.2020

• Friday Experiment: Attempting to Write Every Day

  … as I was expecting discoveries to come later on in the challenge, I powered on and completed this first post in just under an hour. I felt invincible.  This sudden gift of inspiration helped me find the topic for the next days of the challenge – I was continuing the story, still exploring the already not-so-weird second person. Everything about it felt new and I …

  20.11.2020

• Project by ITMO Student Displayed at the State Museum of Urban Sculpture

  …ut to be rather meditative, with many thoughts on transformations happening in each of our lives, on different eras, and the historical process. The majority of sculptures and installations use natural elements in one form or another, be that grass, live plants, sand, or wood, – and just like in the actual environment, these elements tend to deteriorate over time. Th…

  20.11.2020

• Top Nine Questions About Genome Decoding

  …nd make conclusions about its entire population. But how do we separate common features from individual ones? How do we prove our conclusions if we can’t always find the remains of a species’ ancestors? Why do we need all this? What is DNA? It’s more or less common knowledge that there are proteins, fats, and carbohy…

  20.11.2020

• How Learning Analytics Is Helping ITMO Students Design Their Educational Tracks

  …and educational, research, and extracurricular activities offered by the university. We collect this data, aggregate it, process it, and then use it to draw conclusions,” explains Sviatoslav Oreshin, head of the learning analytics team and a fourth-year Bachelor’s student at the Faculty of Software Engineering and Computer Systems. Learning analytics team …

  19.11.2020

• How the Stones of Ancestors Exhibition Changes Our Perception of Archaeology

  …h market placement, communication strategies, and promotion. The latter was especially important, as the project was self-financed by its team members without support of state institutions or grants. We talked to Ekaterina Loginova and Nikolay Sevastyanov, curator of the exhibition, about its concept, message, as well as making science appealing and accessible. Un…

  19.11.2020