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• At Peace With My Bacteria: How to Achieve a Truly Healthy Lifestyle

  …w-quality products. You can eat both high-quality and low-quality products as long as you fit them into your calorie goals. Every Diet Has a Beginning and an End Harvard scientist Frank Sacks along with a team of colleagues have conducted a study on how diets with different compositions of fat, protein, and carbohydrates affect weight loss. 811 overweight adult…

  11.04.2018

• Portfolio Contest Open for New Master's Programs in Photonics at ITMO

  …About the Programs The program "Functional Materials of Optoelectronics" aims to train both professionals in the industry and future scientists who will then continue their studies at ITMO University. Students will acquire theoretical knowledge and competencies in modeling, synthesis, and characterization of nanomaterials and optoelectronic devices within one of t…

  11.04.2018

• Master’s Exchange Students on Learning Lighting Design in Copenhagen

  …hods currently used in Master’s theses but also to establish connections which would be beneficial for future research. In the near future, the students also plan to release a scientific article they co-authored with Prof. Hansen.…

  11.04.2018

• Researchers Use Nanoparticles to Study Proteins at High Temperatures

  …n size and with distinct optical properties, these particles can be applied in various fields. For example, they can be used as nanoresonators to bring light beams into focus. Scientists from ITMO University have recently found out that such particles placed on a metal surface can serve several functions at once. “My colleagues and I wanted to investigate the po…

  10.04.2018

• Learning Russian and Making Movies: a Finn's Exchange Semester at ITMO University

  …y is a partner of my home university, which is how I learned about this opportunity to go to St. Petersburg. I was warned that the course I'm going to take focuses on computer science, but also has a significant business aspect, which I need. Moreover, Russia has always been a very important business partner for Finland - trade between our countries has been going on…

  09.04.2018

• 5 Science News Now

  …Blue whale genome reveals evolutionary surprises. Scientists of the German Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center, Goethe University and the University of Lund in Sweden have deciphered the complete genome of the blue whale and three other rorquals. These insights now allow tracking the evolutionary history of the worlds' largest animal and its relative…

  08.04.2018

• ITMO Celebrates 404 Day with Festival of Street Art

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 7-8

  …ition of luxurious bejeweled Easter eggs and religious portraits. Among the key attractions are two holographic realistic copies of world-famous Fabergé eggs - made by optical scientists from ITMO University! Another great Easter experience is the Pleasure Foods Fair (Eurasia Expo Center, Kantemirovskaya St. 26, April 4-8), where food producers from many regions o…

  04.04.2018

• ITMO University Revamps its Master’s Program in Optoelectronics

  …. "In recent years, our higher technical education has excellently coped with the training of specialists for the IT industry. We also continue to train good research scientists. But we face systemic difficulties in training industrial engineers,” says Dmitry Bauman. “I judge about this problem from my own expertise, having been working for a high-tech compa…

  04.04.2018

• Video Games vs. MBAs: How Gaming Makes You a Better Employee

  …and move on. Conversely, those who do not value success in video games, do not value success in real life either and are more likely to engage in self-protective behaviors. Scientists from the University of Rochester have confirmed that playing action video games improves not just the skills taught in the game, but learning capabilities in general. Individuals wit…

  03.04.2018