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• Get Outside: Socially Distanced Activities in St. Petersburg

  …r vibrant personalities through catchy costumes and board designs – a nice contrast with the classical architecture and the granite of the embankments that surrounded them. Newbies are encouraged to hone their skills along the route around Krestovsky Island, where you can explore quiet, shaded waters and glide your way under low-hanging bridges. A popular route do…

  18.08.2020

• ITMO.GREEN Club Holds Online Ecohabits Camp

  …articipants from Japan, Italy, Taiwan, and Serbia have been listening to lectures on an eco-friendly lifestyle, learning how to calculate their carbon footprint, and obtaining new environmentally friendly habits. “We weren’t going to force everyone into zero waste and veganism,” says Alena Tarasova, manager at the Strategic Initiatives Support Department. “W…

  18.08.2020

• Gold Changes Light: Scientists Find Optimal Nanoparticle Shape for Controlling Color

  …The work of scientists who focus on a specific topic does not end with discovering some new material, molecule, or a way to produce them. After the sensational presentation of a novelty, there comes a time for tedious and labor-intensive work on its optimization, improvement, and adaptation to the demands of our daily lives. Several years ago, scientists from Far …

  18.08.2020

• 5 Russian Architectural Wonders You Didn’t Know Existed

  …ve from location to location, more classical plays were adapted, making the repertoire more appealing to people of different ages and backgrounds. Then, in the 60s-70s, as the new director was able to attract the necessary funds, a new building was created – and it has been housing the company since 1984. The project was meant to repres…

  17.08.2020

• Lasers for Medicine: ITMO and Partners Work on Improving Medical Titanium Alloys’ Biocompatibility

  …batch manufacturing of dental implants in St. Petersburg, for example at one of ITMO’s partner organizations, the ORTOS dental milling center. The project makes use of both new approaches and existing technologies. For one, the previously developed laser coloring technology is used for the purpose of improving dental implants’ visual appearance –  laser impact on …

  17.08.2020

• ITMO University Retains Its Position in Academic Ranking of World Universities

• ITMO Team Joins the Silver League of Google’s Anti-Cyberbullying Competition

• Friday Experiment: Decluttering

  …y to the dacha attic where it is stored indefinitely or eaten by mice. Understanding that doesn’t make it easier to address. When I volunteered “to help with the attic,” I knew I would be “the enemy of the state” for a while - even if I accomplished something my family couldn’t for decades. They hate their stuff being tossed, and I knew

  14.08.2020

• Picture of the Week: Blood Plasma in Pill Form

• Reject All Labels: ITMO Master’s Student Finds Way to Make PET Plastic Production Eco-Friendly

  …the infusion of metal nanoparticles into the plastic used to manufacture bottles. The addition makes it possible to apply images onto the preform using a pulsed laser. ITMO.NEWS chatted to Ulyana about the new technology, the prospects of its integration, and its effects on the environmental aspects of plastic production and recyclin…

  13.08.2020