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• Tourism by Numbers: ITMO University Presents Projects at Saint Petersburg Travel Hub Expo

  …xhibition area. One of these projects, titled “Retrospective visualization of culture-forming toponyms of St. Petersburg based on corpus analysis of historical, culturological, and fictional sources,” has been developed by the University’s Digital Humanities Center. The project is comprised of an interactive map of St. Petersburg depicting various objects of cultu…

  13.09.2019

• Maker Faire Program Director Sabrina Merlo: Most People Are Already Makers

  … be both. We set up these massive shows where people present some eight thousand items. There’s everything – from personal and humorous inventions to sophisticated environmental protection devices. It’s all very different. You’ve also said that horizontal communication and equitable partnerships are very important to makers. What makes this such a key concept of t…

  12.09.2019

• ITMO University in Global Top-500 According to Latest THE Rankings

  …to account publications made between 2014 and 2018 and citations of these publications in the period of 2014-2019. THE WUR 2020: more Russian members This year, the published section of the rankings has once again been expanded and now includes 1,396 universities from 92 countries. For comparison, last year’s rankings included 1,258 universities, and the 2017 r…

  11.09.2019

• Women of ITMO's Empower Program Take Their Careers to New Heights

  …st opened back in high school.  “Classics mean different things at different stages in our lives,” Liana said. What started as a monthly meeting of just a few people is gaining traction. Now it has a permanent space and features lectures by literature instructors. “Empower gave me specific skills to take it to a new level and to promote it,” she explains. This yea…

  11.09.2019

• Learning to Help: ITMO University Welcomes Volunteers from Japan

  … from Japan and addresses all of the exchange’s participants. “For me, it was a pleasure to see the members of the Japanese delegation come in. We really lack simple human interactions between Japan and Russia. I want to thank the consulate of Japan in St. Petersburg and ITMO University for their contribution to this exchange program. Our countries have many sim…

  11.09.2019

• Emotions You Can Touch: St. Petersburg Researchers' Unique Science Art Project

  … Mikhail Klimovskiy suggest placing greater focus on abstract art, as it is something that offers people an opportunity to fulfill their creative potential and strengthen neural connections. He believes that modern highly realistic animation doesn’t help to raise people with sound logic and critical thinking, but rather relaxes the brain and impedes its progress. …

  10.09.2019

• We Want To Make Podcasts Better: ITMO Master’s Students Launch St. Petersburg-Based Podcast Studio

  …, and that’s why they’re gaining momentum,” says the student. However, notes Alexander, the quality of many podcasts leaves much to be desired. Poor sound quality and poor diction make such podcasts difficult to listen to. “I would really like to see more good-quality podcasts. For example, in Russia, there are very few narrative podcasts where people t…

  10.09.2019

• Vaccines: Everything You Need to Know

  …What is a vaccine A vaccine is the introduction of a certain specimen into the human body with the goal of fostering immunity to that specimen. Immunity can be specific and non-specific, the latter being the kind that babies are born with. Non-specific immunity is what allows them to survive once their mother’s milk stops producing antibodies, as well as to combat…

  09.09.2019

• Speak Like a Russian: Student Slang

  …!”). This year, ITMO has replaced the physical gradebooks with digital ones, so we are yet to learn what will become to this word. Шпора (shpora) is a cheat sheet. With the introduction of new technologies (and therefore new means of cheating), шпоры (plural) are becoming less popular, which is somewhat a shame, as there onсe were lots of peculiar techniques to ma…

  09.09.2019

• Unexplored St. Petersburg: Pulkovo Observatory

  …er for a group of anywhere between one to twelve members. There are two day tours, – Standard and Advanced – during which visitors may get the chance to explore sunspots using a projection telescope, and the evening tour, during which you may join a professional astronomer in observing planets, the Moon, stars, galaxies, and other breathtaking celestial phenomena. Pr…

  06.09.2019