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• KronBars: Leading the Way to a Healthier Lifestyle

  …s flexibility is relatively new, but we wanted to make sure that the students would feel motivated to complete the mandatory hours while having control over their own schedule instead of having assigned schedules,” says Evgenii Raskin.  What sports are available? Students have access to 65 clubs and 50 different sports, including fencing, swimming, boxing…

  10.09.2019

• We Want To Make Podcasts Better: ITMO Master’s Students Launch St. Petersburg-Based Podcast Studio

  … but if you have nothing to say it’s useless. Therefore, you first need an idea, a story that you want to tell, and then you can start thinking about its implementation,” explains Golovin. Making money with podcasts “I’ve been working on this project for over a year now and I’m not starving. Isn’t it enough proof that you can make money with podcasts?” …

  10.09.2019

• Vaccines: Everything You Need to Know

  … to survive once their mother’s milk stops producing antibodies, as well as to combat an everyday onslaught of viruses, bacteria, and parasites. Non-specific immunity can stop insignificant infectious viruses and bacteria, but cannot hold back the likes of influenza, streptococcus, or staphylococcus. Specific immunity is developed by the body in response to specif…

  09.09.2019

• Founder of ITMO Accelerator Resident GoRobo on Robotics and Entrepreneurship

  …aration process will take about a year. “We understand how things work in this field, we have clubs in several districts of the city, and expertise in marketing,” he explains. However, even if their franchise is going to be profitable, Eldar doesn’t want to abandon teaching. He says that he would like to spend at least one or two days a week in the classroo…

  09.09.2019

• ITMO University Lands in Diamond League of First RUR Ranking of Russian Universities

  …nd League. ITMO University was placed ninth, while the top three spots were taken by Lomonosov Moscow State University (with 100 out of 100 points), Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, and Tomsk State University. Other members of the Diamond League are the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Novosibirsk State University, St…

  09.09.2019

• Unexplored St. Petersburg: Pulkovo Observatory

  … through the very spot and was the point of reference for all Russian maps until the 1920s! Of course, the highlight of any visit to the observatory are the many stargazing instruments, – some of which you might get to use – but if you lower your gaze towards the ground, you’ll discover the beauty of the surrounding park. Small though it is, Pulkovo Observatory Pa…

  06.09.2019

• Prawns and Aerogels: Sol-Gel Science Slam

  …omain Civioc, a PhD student at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, shared about silica-organic composite aerogels for high-performance thermal insulation. “In the global context of ever-increasing entropy, energy resources are becoming increasingly exhausted. So we need to either reduce consumption or reduce waste. My solution is…

  06.09.2019

• 2019 Presidential Scholarship: ITMO Winners on Their Research and Internships

  …one, and Olga Ovsyannikova, head of the ITMO Academic Mobility Support Office, really helped me navigate this process. I was, of course, very pleased by the result, which also inspired me to work even harder, because now I have to wrap up all of my experiments before I leave.  My work revolves around the development of functional coatings based on thin composite f…

  06.09.2019

• ITMO Scientist Mingzhao Song: Each Time My Phone Runs out of Battery, I Realize That I Have to Work Harder

  …of wireless power transfer (WPT). Our main objective is to develop a new physical concept of WPT. We have advocated for the use of dielectric materials, for example, ceramics, instead of metal cords that can be found inside your phone. We use ceramics as WPT receivers and WPT transmitters to increase the distance and effectiveness of po…

  05.09.2019

• Omega-3 Fatty Acids of Plant Origin and Biomedical Tasks: ITMO Scientists’ Research at University of Lorraine

  …ng its particulars, and it was only during my third year that I got funding for my project and the universities came to an agreement. So I had to make up for all this time and instead of six months, I spent ten months during my first trip to France, and will spend eight during the second,” says the student. Daria is currently doing research on the omega-3 fatty …

  05.09.2019