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• How Coworking Spaces Help Remote Workers Stay on Track and Find New Friends and Colleagues

  …d face-to-face communication with colleagues, the need to combine work and household chores, and deal with many distractions – all this has become a serious challenge for many newly remote workers. WeWork, an international flexible workplace network, and Hamilton Place Strategies, a consulting agency, conducted a joint study to find out that having experienced rem…

  12.10.2020

• Summing up ITMO Preaccelerator's First Workshop

  … social component will be able to advance on the international market. Even now, it is in high demand, it pays off well, and already existing businesses are trying to adapt to new standards and realities. So now, before starting a business you need to think over its value in society. Brainstorming The second part of the event was practice-oriented: the stud…

  12.10.2020

• Your Guide to Gaming in Fall-Winter of 2020

  …99 (I know!) and this particular installment is brought to us by Toys for Bob (of the Skylanders series). Reviews over the past week  praise the game for well-balanced levels, new ideas, and yet that truly old-school vibe that, let’s face it, we are actually all here for. There’s, perhaps, no better way to survive the ever-changing reality of 2020 with a renovated bu…

  09.10.2020

• Battleships and Electrons: ITMO Student Develops a VR Game for Chemistry Students

  …ies to explain them. Every subject has such tough spots and it has nothing to do with the level of the lecturer's expertise. That's why it's especially crucial to come up with new ways of presenting such materials. As noted by Mikhail Kurushkin, dean of the Faculty of Biotechnologies and leading research associate of the ChemBio Cluster, understanding the electron…

  09.10.2020

• ITMO University Launches New Preacceleration Program

  …ology. For the most part, however, the projects are related to various services, apps, and online schools,” says Alexey Solomatin, the head of the Accelerator. What’s new One of the new features that are implemented this year is a ranking system. Each team has its personal dashboard with things they succeed in: completed mod…

  08.10.2020

• ITMO Graduate Dmitry 'Finargot' Plyusnin On His Career in Streaming and Russian Voice-over of Dota 2

  … a lot of money. What do you think was the secret of your success? At first, the previously not-existing Russian voice-over attracted the attention. Although we were newbies, we took it very seriously: we chose people with voices similar to the original actors and translated the text thoroughly. Then we started making animations on Source Filmmaker from …

  08.10.2020

• In a Nutshell: Genome Editing and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

  …rs getting a Nobel Prize almost as soon as the discovery was made. Immediately after the first articles had been published, it became apparent that the method opens up a whole new range of opportunities in biology and medicine, making genome editing a tool accessible in almost any scientific laboratory. . How do you edit the genome? If it’s the CRISPR…

  08.10.2020

• Staff Spotlight: Daniel Nsengumuremyi, Rwanda

  …versity (URFU) in Yekaterinburg. I come from an Eastern African country, Rwanda, and I got my Bachelor’s degree in applied biology there. By that time URFU had just launched a new program on food biotechnology taught in English, so they invited international students to apply for the scholarship or the grant, and I received the grant. Later, in 2016, I took a chance …

  08.10.2020

• Speed Science Dating, Smartphone Orchestra, And More: ITMO Hosts Art & Science Marathon

  …ent. The marathon also included a film screening and a talk by Dmitry Bulatov, an artist, curator, and science art researcher. Most of the marathon’s events took place in a newly-restored former church built in 1869 in the Renaissance Revival style. First, it was part of the Imperial Commercial College, then the Church of the Sts. Peter and Paul, and finally, one …

  07.10.2020

• In a Nutshell: Black Holes and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics

  …does it have to do with anything? Genzel and Ghez have proved that there is a black hole at the center of the Milky Way. How could they do that from Earth? They say in the news that these objects appear in place of stars. Does it mean that a black hole is a star “reborn”? Does it mean that we will all be one day sucked into this black hole? Who got this …

  07.10.2020