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• Science Communicator Fred Balvert: 'For a Journalist, Geniuine Interest Matters More Than Knowledge'

  …eeds to be presented to an audience in the same way as arts and culture; I also learned how to talk about complex topics in simple language and discuss these topics with professionals and the general public alike. I interviewed directors, producers, actors for texts on arts, which are sometimes even harder to write about as science. As a science communicator, I also …

  06.08.2018

• Movie Fridays: A Matter Of Time

  … 21-year old young man from Cornwall has this chance: he can go back to any point in his past and change things. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? About Time is a Richard Curtis version of The Butterfly Effect, but if you're looking for the same drama and extreme highs and lows, you’ll be disappointed. Instead, this warm and witty romcom will mesmerize you with its sharp,…

  03.08.2018

• ITMO University Expands BIM Program in Partnership with Industry Leaders

  …the process of design, you remove a window, you will no longer have to rewrite all of the documentation; it’s already been done automatically. BIM can also help check for collisions; by combining a model of the building and its communications network, you’ll see whether any elements conflict with each other,” explains Filipp Perepelitsa, Head of the Autodesk-ITMO Int…

  03.08.2018

• Academic Writing at ITMO University

  …atory was launched in 2016, when the university set the course on enhancing its international activities, publication activity of its researchers included. The laboratory’s mission is to support and train students, researchers and staff members of ITMO University at all stages of working with research articles. The Academic Writing Lab works with all genres of aca…

  02.08.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: August 4-5

  …the Nazi concentration camps are being turned into museums in order to preserve the memory of the Holocaust. Films are shown on New Holland’s big screen starting at 8 pm. Admission is free. And while you’re there, check out the spanking new (and may we say, very instagrammable) art objects created by Russian artists Sasha Frolova and Ivan Gorshkov. The former will…

  01.08.2018

• Computer Science And The World Football Cup: ESIEE Students on Their Internship at ITMO

  …r ten thousand tweets in English and Russian, ranking them according to six categories: “joy”, “hope”, “love”, “sadness”, “anger” and “neutral”. The students came to the conclusion that the overall atmosphere of the event was cheerful and induced more positive than negative emotions. For instance, out of 2,365 tweets in English, only slightly more than 80 fell into t…

  01.08.2018

• Preparing You For the Working World: Summer School in Singapore

  … business environment. More and more companies are entering the global market; more international teams are emerging. To work well in such teams, employees need not only professional training but also soft skills. All the lectures and workshops at the summer school focused on developing these skills. Students from China, Hong Kong, Norway, Vietnam, Russia, and…

  01.08.2018

• Island 10-21: Russian First Educational Program For Data Economy and NTI Specialists

  … organizers, Island’s main goal is to create a communication platform that would allow its participants to develop their skills and projects, share best practices, build professional contacts, and create new project teams. What defines this intensive workshop is its innovatively build program. Participants had the opportunity of choosing from a range of activities…

  31.07.2018

• Sliding Trams, Sea Breeze, and Art Nouveau: Exploring Helsinki

  …uveau flourished all across Europe, and Finland was no exception. This movement became associated in Finland with the fight for national independence and found a special expression in the National Romantic Style. Seeking inspiration, architects turned to Nordic legends and early medieval architecture: tall stone towers, granite façades, fortress-like shapes, and folk…

  31.07.2018

• Go Green in the City: ITMO Team Wins Regional Stage of Eco-Friendly Competition

  …eir ideas into viable business projects. Among other solutions presented to the jury were projects on creating lightning farms, using drones to detect breakdowns in transmission lines, developing software for designing energy-efficient buildings, and several others. “We we given 10 days to prepare our presentation. The requirements were also very strict; we o…

  31.07.2018