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• ITMO’s Researcher to Boost Immune Response Using Computer Science

  … acts as an anti-inflammatory agent in macrophages. To understand what an immune reaction is, one needs to figure out the whole metabolic pathway of cells. For this purpose scientists collect data on biochemical states of the cells participating in different reactions. Firstly, one takes into account transcriptomic data that explains what reactions are triggered b…

  14.04.2017

• Innovations for Everybody: How Young Inventors Patent their Projects

  …ren and teenagers took part in the contest. Also one organized a summer camp for young inventors in Kazan where children worked on their projects under the guidance of skilled scientists. According to Elena Bogdanova, Dean of the Faculty of International Business and Law, since its foundation, the contest has assisted in receiving several patents, preparing terms …

  13.04.2017

• Adapting To Russia: International Students Share Their Experience

  …lls are very useful for managing a technological startup and bringing it out to the market, which is especially important for me, as at my home university I got only technical sciences and couldn't learn much on how to manage a business. As for IT, we have courses on Big Data, virtual reality, machine learning and the like. What strengths and weaknesses can you ma…

  13.04.2017

• "Green Universities: Innovations and Best Practices" Conference: Students Go Green

  …ms and research, as well as supporting student projects and initiatives. As Kristina Shteker, the center's representative, notes, it is more like an incubator where lecturers, scientists and students experiment and select new approaches for creating a university that follows the concept of sustainable development. University of Hamburg "We started with reorga…

  12.04.2017

• Trapping Light: Anisotropic Structures Can Increase Optical Device's Efficiency

  …The News&Views section mostly covers the most relevant and important topics. Its authors explain the essence of recent publications in leading science journals in simpler terms, so that scientists from different fields would understand them. Research on bound states in continuous spectrum is a fast-developing and promising field of

  11.04.2017

• ITMO and Acronis Open New IT Lab

  …ks that may seem impossible. The expert believes that this work has to correlate with studies – the tasks given by the experts of Acronis, can serve as a basis for a thesis or scientific article. The company already has about 40 projects following this concept. The students can choose a topic themselves. Then they have to address a project’s head, Andrey Filchenko…

  10.04.2017

• Total Dictation at ITMO University

  …y a technical university supports this non-technical event, the Rector does not hesitate to answer: "I believe that any specialist, no matter, technical or non-technical, scientist or engineer, has to have nonscience training as well, or he would never become a real specialist, won't have the outlook for that. This is not only abou…

  10.04.2017

• Solving Tasks in Social Network – the Results of the ITMO Vkontakte Olympiad

  …ITMO University organizes various Olympiads for high school students (7-11 grades). When the Ministry of Education and Science introduced a new law in 2015, Russian students received an opportunity to gain extra points for the results of the Unified State Exam by taking part in contests and extra curricula activities. This year the university’s Olympiad reached a …

  10.04.2017

• Research Associates Migraine with Hypertension

  …tics and treatment. At the same time, many studies show that migraines can cause serious cardiovascular disorders including heart attack and stroke. In their new research, the scientists studied how migraines are associated with arterial hypertension – the most frequent pathology of the circulatory system.    Researchers from Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Me…

  10.04.2017

• Career Guidance: Helping Students Choose Their Future

  …tion to the problem is in working with highschoolers by introducing career guidance programs in school. In 2015, this initiative was discussed at the Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. Apart from career guidance programs, creating career guidance camps where school students can spend their vacations was also proposed. All …

  07.04.2017