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• 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

• Prawns and Aerogels: Sol-Gel Science Slam

  …niversity. Its main topic is New Generation, so the program is designed with the aim of supporting young researchers from all over the world. That’s why it encompasses such unusual sections as workshops in science communication and panel discussion on how to build a successful career. Another new thing at the Sol-Gel Conference was a Science Slam competition, held at…

  06.09.2019

• 2019 Presidential Scholarship: ITMO Winners on Their Research and Internships

  …eased by the result, which also inspired me to work even harder, because now I have to wrap up all of my experiments before I leave.  My work revolves around the development of functional coatings based on thin composite films. The films themselves are based on a transparent semiconductor or dielectric into which we incorporate metal nanoparticles. Laser managemen…

  06.09.2019

• ITMO Scientist Mingzhao Song: Each Time My Phone Runs out of Battery, I Realize That I Have to Work Harder

  …l approaches. What are these approaches? Which additional possibilities do they offer compared to those used today?  If a conventional metal coil is used, that is, if the interaction occurs between two metal coils as it happens now, the resulting connection is weak. If we use a dielectric resonator with a high dielectric constant,…

  05.09.2019

• Omega-3 Fatty Acids of Plant Origin and Biomedical Tasks: ITMO Scientists’ Research at University of Lorraine

  …double degree program, I encountered several problems; first of all, it took some time to find a laboratory to work at. I got refusals from many research centers, as they saw no connection between my research topic and their own research activities. Secondly, I had to look for funding. In France, a PhD student has to have at least 1,200 euros a month, which is quite …

  05.09.2019

• Student Orientation and Meetings with Scientists: ITMO Introduction Days

  …Held for the first time this year, Introduction Days was a large-scale orientation event for ITMO University first-year students. On September 2-3, all Bachelor’s freshers were divided into 24 teams with 70-80 people each and then partook in an extensive and fun program held at two ITMO campuses: on Lomonosova Street and Kronverksky Prospekt.  Such orientation eve…

  04.09.2019