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• ITMO "Raps the Scrap" at the World Robot Olympiad

  …category would have been just boring — both for me and my students", comments Igor Lisitsky, trainer of ITMO's teams for schoolers and a staff member for the Department of Control Systems and Informatics. Team Arctic Cleaner Credit: social networks Teams from ITMO University presented two projects. The first one — the Arctic Cleaner — was created by Gl…

  28.11.2016

• Mind Games: Quests as a Way to Learn and Have Fun at the Same Time

  …uzzle-solving and narrative made them popular among more cerebral gamers. Ultimately, these games would evolve into the immersive universes that we now find in virtual reality role-play games such as World of Warcraft. But somewhere along the way, in the late 2000s, adventure gaming made a decisive shift from the digital and into the real world, creating an entire…

  25.11.2016

• Quantum Dots Offer New Platform for Fingertip Terahertz Devices

  …tion, terahertz waves are currently employed for the development of high-speed communication systems based for aerospace industry, where the size of equipment plays a critical role. Researchers from Aston University and ITMO University used quantum dots to develop an antenna that can help significantly reduce the size of terahertz sources. The work was supported by …

  25.11.2016

• A New City Guide App from the Science Slam Participant

  … to one's interests only. So, if some student with a mohawk on his head and five rubles in his pocket will use the app, he'll get one route. If that'd be an English lady on a Rolls-Royce — the route will be entirely different. What has to be done to finalize the app? My friends have already tested it. As soon as I finish, I'll upload it to Google Play — within sev…

  24.11.2016

• How Can We Affect the Evolution Theory Today?

  …s not true. According to the latter research, biological evolution still exists. Among other genetic "benefits" today we have lactose acceptability, infections resistance and prolonged childbearing period. In the past, the process of selection was provided by natural and random processes. Now technologies and cultural phenomena contribute to the evolution. For insta…

  24.11.2016

• The "Student of the Year" Prize Goes to ITMO

  …ad ITMO’s Student Council. Under her supervision, the Council won the first prize at the All Russian Student Community Competition. Its two projects — "Increasing of students' role in innovative development of Russia" (2015) and "Involvement of students into state programs for improving their competences" (2016) — received 28 million rubles by the Government. "I ap…

  22.11.2016

• ITMO University Launches New Chemical-Biological Center

  …chnology. Bachelor's students will receive advanced training at the REC, while the Department is aimed at Master's and Research Students — up to 150 students are expected to enroll next year. The estimated maximum number of students for this Department is three hundred- the center's Board expects to teach such an amount in three years. "New foreign team lead…

  22.11.2016

• We Are the Champions: ITMO’s English Courses at "Sirius" Center for Talented Children

  …icipate in quests, watch movies, discuss works of art and write poems — and all of that is done in English. "The students don't get any homework, and that plays a great role: each lesson has its logical conclusion, it focuses of developing and training some particular skill", shares Elena Borisova, a specialist for the Foreign Language Training Center. "The ch…

  21.11.2016

• ITMO Sport Guide Part 2: Things about Sport You Should Know

  …tsman. He was interested in karate when was a child then in high school start visiting gym. Now Evgeni keeps a healthy lifestyle — he runs in the morning, spends time by doing roller skating in summer and skating in winter as well as adores snowboarding. How does it work? Previously student sport clubs were required to register themselves as legal bodies. And a…

  18.11.2016

• Scientists Develop a Graphene Matrix for Stem and Cancer Cells Growing

  …s not available before," says Irina Hussainova, leading researcher at Tallinn University of Technology and professor of ITMO University. "The matrix is able to selectively control stimuli for stem cell differentiation, to vary immune reactions and to locally immobilize cancer cells. This opens new prospects for in vitro experiments especially for dermal, neural, coch…

  18.11.2016