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• St. Petersburg’s Architectural Gems: Classicism

  …ream’ edifices. A patron of the arts, Catherine the Great presided over the age of the Russian Enlightenment, a period in which the government began to actively encourage the proliferation of arts and sciences, which had a profound impact on Russian culture. Architecture was no exception. Classicism, the new architectural style, was meant to embody the ideal of a har…

  20.11.2018

• Scientists Developed Enzymes with Remote Control

  …Enzymes are involved in a variety of reactions in living organisms, and their effectiveness depends on a variety of conditions. Although usually the enzyme activity is controlled chemically, researchers from ITMO University showed that this can be done remotely using physical methods such as radio frequency field. To make radio-control

  20.11.2018

• WUD@ITMO: Ending the Dispute Between Developers and Designers

  …fit for work and the ones who weren’t came down to 12 to 1, by 2050 it is predicted to be a mere 2 to 1. This is due to the universal progress in medicine with the consequent prolongation of the population’s life span, and the no less ubiquitous drop in birth rates. What these factors bode to us humans is that in the future, we’re likely to live in societies predomin…

  20.11.2018

• Alfa-Bank Scholarship Winners on How to Innovate the Most Innovative University Out There

  …ers 17 national universities in total, offering its students with a monthly scholarship worth 10,000 rubles for the duration of two academic years. The only condition for the prolongation of the scholarship period is for a candidate to have a consistently good academic record and no failed exams they’d need to make up for. First-year Bachelor’s students who have g…

  19.11.2018

• ITMO Robotics Team Wins Gold at World Robot Olympiad 2018 in Thailand

  …ITMO University’s school team from the Creative Robotics Laboratory of the School of Computer Technologies and Control have emerged victorious in the Senior High category, leaving the team from Germany at the second place and the US at the third. The winning team consists of three participants, school students Vasily Dunaev and Dmitry Kharlapenko from the Presidentia…

  19.11.2018

• Movie Fridays: The Best of Edward Norton

  …American History X (1998) Tony Kaye’s crime-drama American History X is Edward Norton’s second award-winning role after his debut, Gregory Hoblit’s 1996 crime-thriller Primal Fear, for which he was awarded a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In American History X, he plays Derek Vineyard, a former neo-Nazi gang leader w…

  16.11.2018

• Intercultural Nights, Legends and Movies: Erasmus+Youth Exchange Program

  …se. At the end of the program, we shot a movie based on the legends of different countries. The participants of the exchange divided into teams, everyone settled upon a role they wanted to play in the filming process. Our team consisted of make-up artists, scriptwriters, and directors, as well as actors who we cast based on auditions. Before we started shootin…

  16.11.2018

• National Technology Revolution 20.35: Universities as Driving Force of Change

  … industry and entrepreneurs. I myself began collaborating with ITMO University as a venture partner. Then the university itself started to create startups and took on a role of a business incubator; that resulted in a range of incubation and acceleration programs. Our students have the opportunity to try their hand at business, and our startup residents to tak…

  16.11.2018

• BIOCAD VP Roman Ivanov: “Biotechnologies are the Cornerstone of Medicine of Tomorrow”

  …mpact of the appearance of bevacizumab, a monoclonal antibody-based drug, on the market. It’s used to treat metastatic malignant tumors in advanced stages of cancer. It helps prolong patients’ lives by several years when other drugs are no longer effective. Until 2015, drugs of its kind, due to their high cost, were only available to 10% of all patients. When bevaciz…

  15.11.2018

• NTR 20.35 BarCamp Explored Prospects for Neural Interfaces

  … actively tested the games on students: identified the ones that were lagging behind and ‘punished’ them with game sessions to boost their stress resistance and ability to control their psychoemotional state. The solution we provided did manage to make a big difference, resulting in the students’ improved exam performance. You can now download the games for Android d…

  15.11.2018