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• Christmas Is All Around Us

  …mong my personal favorites are Richard Curtis’s charming romantic comedy Love Actually, Sharon Maguire’s hit Bridget Jones’s Diary, Robert Zemeckis’ dark fantasy A Christmas Carol, and The Polar Express. I watch these films each and every year, starting in the middle of December, and they never fail to amaze me! 5. Christmas Goodies Just think about spicy star-…

  25.12.2018

• ITMO University Awards Its First Academic Degrees

  …sburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences The commonly accepted practice of having the Supreme Certification Commission as a controlling body is familiar and understandable, and we are yet to tell what the new initiative will lead to. I already get the feeling that there's a sort of a competition between the traditional …

  25.12.2018

• Head of ITMO's Femtomedicine Lab Olga Smolyanskaya on Applications of Terahertz Radiation in Medicine and Biology

  …ds in the use of terahertz radiation for the purposes of the biological and medical research where water is the main object. Water was our main focus because it plays a key role in the formation and stabilization of biosystems, and can be seen as a universal indicator of their state and way of functioning. The dielectric properties of water are at the core of diag…

  25.12.2018

• How to Survive the Holidays If You’re a Grinch

  …Situation 1: Office Christmas party Lemme tell you how it goes. Autumn rolls in; you’re enjoying the longer evenings, lots of new TV content, and the general coziness that comes with this soft, rainy, subdued season. Gone is the scorching hell of summer that forced you to go out of your stuffy home, right into the hands of malicious extroverts always looking for v…

  21.12.2018

• Mind Maps, Open Spaces, and Cooking Contests: ITMO Staff Visit UK’s Oxford Brookes University

  …usiness School, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment. A total of 20,000 students are enrolled there, and international students make up 18% of that number. Environment for students Over the course of two weeks, staff from ITMO University got a thorough look at the Briti…

  21.12.2018

• From Sunshine to Freezing Cold: An Ecuadorian’s Experience of Russia

• ITMO Launches New Master’s Program ‘Bioeconomics and Resource Management’

  …e new Master’s program ‘Bioeconomics and Resource Management’ with the aim of training qualified specialists in energy and resource preservation processes in industrial and petrol chemistry, and biotechnology with the use of green chemistry technologies. “What made us decide to develop this program?” remarks Maya Uspenskaya, head of ITMO’s International Scientif…

  20.12.2018

• University of South Carolina Professor on Development of Anticancer Drugs

  …ountered in 33% of cases), toxicity (33% of cases), pharmacokinetics (25%) and commercialization (9% of cases). I would like to conclude by saying that the oft-experienced prolongations in the clinical trial stage can lead to a significant increase of the cost of the development process, making it a total of 500 million to a billion dollars in expenses. And this i…

  19.12.2018

• ITMO University Lecturers on Benefits of Using Online Courses in Teaching

  …Maria Nikitina, Vice Dean and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics I’ve been using the 'Electrical Machines' and 'Linear Electrical Circuits' online courses in my teaching practice for a long time, even before they were introduced to the Open Education learning platform. They were developed by the Associate Professor of the Faculty of…

  18.12.2018

• Musicians: Nature or Nurture? Science Journalist Asya Kazantseva Explains

  …a sign that the gods got angry with them for some reason, and decided that they needed to repeat what the Westerners did to mollify them. So they started making airplanes, control towers, headphones, and other items, built and weaved from the means they had at hand. This is a perfect illustration of how the human brain works: our nervous system tends to notice…

  17.12.2018