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• More than ESP: International Experts on How to Teach English Effectively in Higher Education

  …try to demonstrate how important it is to collaborate to create an atmosphere of communication between our students.  To be able to successfully teach English as a Medium of Instruction courses, one has to first get to know the students, as everything depends on them. Their language background is different, they come from different countries and different cultures…

  21.10.2019

• Programmer Alexander Mordvintsev on Working at Google, Curiosity and Future of Programming

  …and I didn’t have any experience in this area either. I had to quickly learn a lot about computer vision and, surprisingly, I really liked it. Apart from that, I also did 3D reconstruction using the aerial imagery. How and when did you receive a job offer from Google? It was in 2014; their HR wrote to me and invited me to an interview. It’s pretty funny how…

  21.10.2019

• Top Five: Funky Ways to Fight a Cold – Reviewed!

  …is little guy involved. And if it’s joined by black/cayenne pepper, lemons, maple syrup or, God forbid, turmeric, which usually happens as part of a bizarre but divinely revered concoction called “ginger shots” (no doubt to lure us incurable tipplers to get some of our five-a-day in, cheeky!), well then you’ll be floating on air and become immortal in a jiffy. That’s…

  18.10.2019

• Lithium-Ion Batteries, Space and How Oxygen Affects Cells: 118th Nobel Week Results

  …ld”. This is a reference to lithium-ion batteries that the scientists have created and that now power every smartphone and laptop. Their work is based on electrochemical oxidation reactions happening to metallic lithium that comprises the anode. The battery’s development began back in the 1970s thanks to Stanley Whittingham. It was then continued by John Goodenough a…

  18.10.2019

• Intergenerational Teamwork: ITMO University Introduces a New Mentorship Program

  …efore, we ran the project together with the Recursion charity foundation. The complexity was that this involved an external platform, and we couldn’t evaluate how close was the interaction between our students and graduates, what results they obtained, and whether there were any results at all. Recursion brought together graduates of the country’s leading universitie…

  18.10.2019

• Head of ICPC Northern Eurasia Regional Headquarters at ITMO: Helping People from Everywhere Join the Movement

  …help them, as well as develop this initiative further.   How will this new office be integrated into the international agenda of the ICPC? We represent ICPC Global, so all our actions will be approved by the ICPC Headquarters. It is crucial that we are not isolated. Our task is to create and support the infrastructure here that will become a part of the interna…

  18.10.2019

• New Technology and How It Can Affect My Art: An Artist’s Opinion

  …l life without these new advancements. Twenty years ago it wasn’t even necessary to have a mobile cellphone at all times but now our devices bring to the table all kinds of new interactions with the external world. Smartphones, smart watches, smart TVs – they all make our lives easier in some ways and more complicated in others; but we must ask ourselves: how does an…

  17.10.2019

• Startup Consulting Expert Faris Alami: Investors Don’t Invest in Ideas, They Invest in People

  …ormally there are plenty. So, in order to overcome the wall between the investor and the developer, you don’t break it, but rather surround it with a web of acquaintances and connections? I would call it a bridge. Let’s say I’m 23 years old and I have a revolutionary idea for a new multifunctional drone. How do I find an invest…

  17.10.2019

• ITMO’s PhD Student Awarded a Grant for Researching Natural Protein-Based Preservatives

  … bacteriostatic agents to prevent the growth of microorganisms in products.  “This is the first time that the peptides we are focusing on are being research. Their structure, functions and properties have never been described anywhere else before,” shares Georgiy. Right now, the PhD researcher faces a number of tasks: using his own technique, he has to isol…

  17.10.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: October 19-20, 2019

  …ng with Danish psychodrama Nina at 5pm, or dart a wistful look into the past with Danish historical drama A Fortunate Man. On Sunday October 20, tut-tut at the perils of gambling addiction with Putting Lipstick on a Pig, a documentary straight off the Åland Islands, from 5pm, and learn more about the lives of Finnish soldiers during the Soviet-Finnish war and onwards…

  16.10.2019