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• Brain Fitness Games: Can Intelligence Really be Boosted?

  …One of the first scientists to ever study the effectiveness of games in developing human intelligence from a scientific point of view was Torkel Klingberg, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. In 1999, he conducted an experiment during which children played computer games focused on training one’s memory. As a result, the p…

  02.08.2016

• Researchers Are on the Way to Obtain First Chemically Synthesized Metamaterial

  …terial with unique optical activity. Nowit is fair to say that metamaterials could be obtained by chemical means in the future”, says Alexander Vinogradov, lead author of the study and researcher at the Laboratory of Solution Chemistry of Advanced Materials and Technologies (SCAMT) at ITMO University. Strong optical properties in this class of materials were d…

  02.08.2016

• Game Theory: “Game Core” to Make People Play and Give Back

  …ve without games but at the same time want to do valuable and useful things. Game Core works on several trial projects focusing on a wide range of purposes – from game design studying to consulting and developing new games. Game Core will be very successful, declare its’ developers. It becomes possible thanks to a new attitude to games. Currently some stereotypes …

  02.08.2016

• A Student from Iraq: “Studying in Russia was my Dream”

  …Amsterdam. We are the first who provide this kind of analysis. Baghdad VS St. Petersburg Iraq’s educational system differs from Russian. In my country Master’s students study theoretical disciplines during the first year and spent the second year to apply their knowledge into practice. At ITMO University I got an opportunity to choose the topic since the very b…

  01.08.2016

• The Master’s Program Enrollment Campaign: Bringing in Best Students and Training Elite Specialists

  … Russia.  What is more, our Master’s Degree programs are focused on creating special conditions for the students. To begin with, a master’s program implies that 35% of the study time shall be devoted to research. Our university’s status as a research institute is reflected in its many achievements, thus, we have all the necessary conditions for that. In the recent…

  01.08.2016

• Virtual Reality Classrooms: Education of the Future

  …ucation doubles. Mr. Stolyarov also says that "interactive virtual reality will be useful in Humanities subjects. With our participation, a project was created for the study of foreign languages with the help of VR-technologies – it was in the semi-finals of Microsoft Imagine Cup.” Based on experience that it is easier to learn a new language when you’re immer…

  01.08.2016

• Multivitamin Supplements: To Take or not to Take

  …ears and older. Some of them suffered from cardiovascular diseases or previously had heart attacks. The patients were divided into two groups – placebo and multivitamin ones. Study work took more than 10 years. During this period of time patients underwent medical tests at Canadian and American medical clinics. A total number of 450 thousand patients took part in the…

  27.07.2016

• ITMO’s Russian Language Summer School: A Cross-Cultural Experience for European Students

  … of Russian as a Foreign Language. She adds that the most difficult part during the development of the program was to fit all the necessary material into the limited study time. The Chair’s staff tried to make the lessons as informative and interesting as possible; in return, all the students were really eager to learn. For most of them this trip to Russia w…

  27.07.2016

• Getting Close to Nanostructures

  …se the application of scanning probe microscopy. “In traditional optical microscopy, we look at the specimen, in electron microscopy we bombard it with electrons and study the response. Probe microscopy is about “feeling” the surface of the specimen with a special tip (probe), that gives information about its surface and characteristics (adhesive strength, Y…

  26.07.2016

• Exchange Semester in Switzerland Turns into a Two-Year Master’s Program

  …an exception. All in all, I think this was the best option for me. Did you have any special advantages when you applied for the Master’s program at EPFL? I had been studying in Lausanne for only half a year, so no. I might have gotten some if I were there for a year, maybe. All in all, the terms of admission are absolutely equal for everyone: whether you’re…

  26.07.2016