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• Our Favorite Places to Experience Fall in St. Petersburg

  …nland. St. Petersburg boasts numerous locations from which to enjoy scenic views of the Baltic Sea, but my personal favorite is a nook near the Primorskaya metro station. Good news, a stroll to the destination point includes a tour of late Soviet architecture rather worth seeing.  Of course water, rocks, and sand may give you an asсetic impression in comparison to…

  06.10.2020

• Epidemiologist Vasily Vlassov on Medical Problems Exposed by the Pandemic

  … attacks would be reduced by three times, that would be reflected in the general mortality rate. And yet nothing like this happened during the past three years. It’s just that news about the reduction of mortality rates looks good, so everyone, not only cardiologists, but also deputies and ministers, keep repeating it.” The thing is, the number of deaths in this…

  06.10.2020

• You Can Fight the World and Win: ITMO Graduate Kirill Rivkin on DataArt, Studies in the US and His Startup

  …After graduating from ITMO, you went to get your PhD in the US. How did you do that given that academic mobility in Russia was not as intense as now?  It was just a regular newsletter. I was surfing the internet and saw that foreign citizens were being accepted for a PhD in the US. I didn’t know anything else, I didn’t have anyone I could ask, so I started sending…

  05.10.2020

• KronBars Named Best Russian Student Sports Club for the Fourth Year in a Row

  … achievement of a large team of athletes, student managers, coaches, and professors. We really stand out from other sports clubs, we experiment in our activities, come up with new formats for working with students, and make sports at the university popular, interesting, and convenient. We will keep on setting trends not only in student sports but also in mass and pro…

  05.10.2020

• New Coworking Space Opens at ITMO’s Kronverksky Campus

  …ign of its concept, format, and the services it offers so that the space would fit its purpose. “On the one hand, this is a place where you can work as a team and develop new ideas; on the other, you can also come here to rest or work on your own. When I was a student, the schedule was organized in such a way that we never had long breaks between lectures. Today…

  05.10.2020

• The Unexpectedly Superstitious Side of St. Petersburg

  …to take it home with them (it actually happened not once but seven times). A local legend goes that if your coin lands on its shelf, your wish will come true. And if you are a newlywed (well, congratulations!), you definitely should take a shot glass (not a call to drink, water will do) and lower it down to Chizhik on a rope and clink the glass on the bird’s beak whi…

  05.10.2020

• Comfort Foods to Try This Fall

  …t a full bag of pepparkakor (Swedish for gingerbread) spiced tea brought to me by a dear friend all the way from a Swedish Christmas market, this year my store ran out – thus, new ideas had to follow. I came up with something terribly (yes, terribly!) simple and yet surprisingly addictive: a few thick lemon slices, some ginger, cinnamon, and honey (or cherry syrup, w…

  02.10.2020

• Scientists Create New IR-Activated Coating for Local Drug Delivery

  …rentiation towards the formation of bone tissue,” says Svetlana Ulasevich, associate professor at ITMO University’s Infochemistry Scientific Center. “In our work, we propose a new hybrid thermosensitive system consisted of a polypyrrole layer, a porous titania layer and bone morphogenetic protein (BMP-2), which can affect the formation of bone and cartilage.” Th…

  02.10.2020

• Media Research Group’s Aleksandr Farseev On Advertising Algorithms and Social Network Monopolies

  …ofiling is analysis of the content written by users. It’s required in order to understand who these users are, what they are into, and what type of personality they have. ITMO.NEWS published a story a few years ago about how our algorithm profiled Trump as a single man. How does it work? We all have a social image that we show to people: our age, location, profile…

  01.10.2020

• Smart Cane and Quantum Physics In Water Drops: Projects by ITMO Students at Youth Awards in Science and Innovations Finals

  … Vladimir Igoshin, Maria Zimokha, and Anastasia Nikitina got into the top-10 in the “How the world works” category with their “Quantum physics in water drops” project. ITMO.NEWS asked the students if they are content with their results, whether they are willing to develop their projects further, and what they are going to spend their prize money on. Dilnaz …

  01.10.2020