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• ITMO’s Yagodnoe Outdoor Camp Turns 65!

  For every member of ITMO.Family, Yagodnoe is more than just a place for sports and leisure. Today, it hosts educational camps, schools, and strategy sessions, as well as city-wide and international environmental projects. Meanwhile, ITMO alumni from all over the world return for a visit even years after graduation. This year, Yagodnoe turned 65, and to honor this date we prepared a little retrospective of the camp’s history, with a view on its future.

  17.07.2024

• This Week in St. Petersburg: July 18-24, 2024

  Easing our way into another sunny week of July, we are up to some fun activities: unusual exhibitions, two whole festivals, and even an open-air concert. Find out all the details in our guide!

  17.07.2024

• First in the World: ITMO Researchers Train DNA Constructs to Detect Cancer Cells Based on Cancer Marker Concentration

  Researchers from ITMO University have developed DNA constructs based on antisense oligonucleotides that can detect different cancer marker concentrations in cells. Thanks to this capability, the DNA constructs activate only in cancer cells with high concentrations of cancer markers, cleaving the RNAs of genes responsible for the cells’ viability. At the same time, healthy cells, even with several copies of cancer markers inside, remain untouched. With this solution, target cancer therapy will become more accurate, efficient, and safe. The new DNA constructs were described in a paper published in Chemical Communications. 

  17.07.2024

• ITMO Family Day 2024 Recap: Graduation Caps, Robots, and Pink Flamingos

  For the first time ever, this year’s ITMO Family Day was combined with the graduation party, bringing together the year’s coolest graduates, the rector, and the rock band The Hatters. On July 6, nearly 13,000 students, staff, and friends of ITMO came together on Yelagin Island to attend fun lectures, practice archery, assemble robots, and join all sorts of activities organized by the festival’s partners: Alfa Bank, Sberbank, and Yandex Education. Here’s our recap of all the fun.

  16.07.2024

• ITMO Master’s Program in GenAI Certified by AI Alliance

  Big news: AI Alliance has certified ITMO’s Master’s program in deep learning and generative AI, making it the third educational program at the university to be approved by the expert committee and included in the Alliance’s registry. What’s more, the program is recommended as a gold-standard, an example to be implemented at other universities.

  15.07.2024

• First in Russia: ITMO Alumnus Creates Platform for Establishing New Stipends

  ITMO graduate Kirill Dobrinov has developed the platform Dobraya Stipendiya (“Kind Stipend”), where alumni and friends of ITMO.Family can start their own stipends of various sizes and with custom requirements for applicants. The minimal stipend is 10,000 rubles, a condition that makes the platform the first of its kind in Russia. Read more about starting your own stipend on the platform or applying for one.

  12.07.2024

• AI, Internet of Things and Digital Twins: Researcher Asif Iqbal on Current Trends in Laser Industry

  Robotic complexes, 3D printing, and computer vision systems – these have all been implemented in the laser industry to ensure quality control. What other digital technologies can change the industry? Will laser engineers have to learn IT to the level that they know physics? And how can we maintain production sustainability while chasing technological progress? Pakistani researcher Dr Asif Iqbal talks about these topics in this ITMO.NEWS interview. Dr Iqbal is a researcher at Universiti Brunei Darussalam and his alma mater, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, who has recently joined the ITMO Fellowship program.

  12.07.2024

• New Program for High-Achieving Applicants Launches at ITMO

  ITMO PRIORITY, a program of personalized support for applicants who perform well in Russian national student contests or scored 100 points on two or more Unified State Exams in related subjects. Among other bonuses, participants of the program can receive travel grants for their move to St. Petersburg, an additional stipend of up to 25,000 rubles, a personal manager, a place in a dorm in the city center, and more. Read on to learn more about the new program.

  11.07.2024

• Summit the Peak: Skolkovo’s Andrey Volkov on Parallels Between Team Management and Mountain Climbing

  Team management in business is not unlike climbing a mountain: there is a group of professionals who have to constantly make decisions – planning their route, sharing resources, and acting in challenging weather conditions. Any mistake can be fatal. How can you avoid this outcome, why is it crucial to understand each other, and how can you learn to do it? Look for answers to these questions in our keynotes from the PI School’s lecture of Andrey Volkov, the head of the Social Strategies Institute at Skolkovo, the scientific supervisor of Priority 2030 program, and a mountaineer with 40 years of experience.

  10.07.2024

• ITMO and VK Education to Teach Students to Implement AI into Business and Industry

  Within AI Engineering, a new Bachelor’s program just launched by ITMO and VK Education, students will learn to implement AI systems into business processes. AI can facilitate various operations: identifying failures, automating routine tasks, as well as processing and analyzing big data. Graduates of the program will be able to take on positions of ML and data engineers in economics, banking, logistics, and retail data analysis.

  10.07.2024