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• ‘I am a Professional’ Competition Ends with Medals Ceremony

  …ic organization Business Russia in collaboration with Russia’s ten leading higher education establishments. ITMO University curates three of the competition’s tracks: Computer Science, Information Security and Photonics. Tech company Yandex acts as the competition’s technical partner.   Rectors and Vice Rectors of leading universities around Russia, as well as…

  15.03.2018

• Eco-Friendly Board Game Teaches Students to Combine Business and Sustainable Development

  …in other regions of the country. At ITMO University, workshops on the game were held for students of Master’s programs “Urban Development Management”, “Urban Informatics” and “Science Communication”. “This academic year we’ve restructured some of the subject courses, such as the “Modern Science and Scie

  15.03.2018

• SCAMT Member on New Approaches to Chemical Education

  … I graduated from a school with enhanced education in English, which I started to learn back when I was five. During my school years, nothing bespoke of my future career in science, let alone in such a field as chemistry. In fact, I was even bad at it. Looking back, I understand that chemical education in schools is based on rote learning, and mostly irrelevant. I…

  14.03.2018

• ITMO Helps Train Optical Systems Design Specialists in Collaboration with European Union

  …in highly-qualified specialists in the field of optical systems design. ADOPSYS has two main goals: to create new optical methods and components in close collaboration between scientific and academic institutions and the industry, as well as to develop a unique European infrastructure for the training of young photonics and optics scien…

  14.03.2018

• New Head of US English Language Office on How to Improve English-Language Education in Russia and the World

  …nguage skills among their students and staff, especially knowledge of their respective fields’ vocabularies. After all, this is the only way for them to join the international scientific community – and that applies to English-speaking countries, too. Regular and academic English are two different things. You can’t just pick some academic term and look it up in a dic…

  13.03.2018

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• Exchange Students from Brazil: 'They're Always Happy'

  …arge lake and even monkeys. So what brought these eager Brazilians to Russia, and even better, to ITMO? “The Brazilian government used to have a popular program called Science without Borders which funded students studying abroad. My brother participated in the program and went to Liverpool for a year. As soon as I started university I searched for a similar …

  09.03.2018

• Women and Science: ITMO’s Finest

  …Daria Kozlova, ITMO’s First Vice Rector Why did you decide to work in science and not business or another field? Accidentally! Being a professional athlete as a child, I had planned to have a career in sports. But fate led to me to St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, the classes of which I successfully skipped in order to play sports. Some time during my…

  08.03.2018

• BioHack-2018: 48 Hours to Make a Difference

  …year she’s getting ready to defend her thesis and publish a study based on the project she’d done during the previous BioHack. 90% of all the projects this year happened to be scientific. It’s hard to call that an advantage, as you can’t discover anything particularly novel in just two days. It was, therefore, even harder to evaluate the projects, and much depended o…

  07.03.2018

• ITMO's Young Scientist on How to Win Two Grants and Go to Berlin

  …How Do You Think You Managed to Win Both Grants at the Same Time? I guess it's due to a very high level of education at the Department of Optical Physics and Modern Natural Science. As a postgraduate student, I received excellent theoretical training as well as practical experience. The students at our department also had an opportunity to do an internship in Japa…

  07.03.2018