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• Vaccines: Everything You Need to Know

  …the production of antibodies. A vaccine contains antigens – the minimum amount of material needed to start the domino effect of immune reactions that results in the organism’s newfound immunity. History of vaccination Before vaccines, people fought smallpox using the method of inoculation. First records of it come from 15th century China. Its main idea is to in…

  09.09.2019

• Speak Like a Russian: Student Slang

  …for getting an автомат, so be sure to pay attention! Халява (khalyava), or freebie, is a lot different: it means that you’ve lucked out, like getting the only question you knew out of a couple dozen or passing a multiple choice test by simply guessing the right answers. Зачетка (zachetka) is a gradebook with records of all your grades, which once played an impo…

  09.09.2019

• Founder of ITMO Accelerator Resident GoRobo on Robotics and Entrepreneurship

  … also important is that I did it all by myself: created courses, developed a marketing strategy. I would come home at midnight and barely spent any time with my family. It was New Year’s holidays, nobody cared about robotics, and I was just about ready to give up. What helped me carry on was my family and the belief that this was a promising field. Besides, that was …

  09.09.2019

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

• Unexplored St. Petersburg: Pulkovo Observatory

• Prawns and Aerogels: Sol-Gel Science Slam

  …once in two years and unites researchers in the field of solution chemistry. This year, for the first time ever, it took place in Russia, at ITMO University. Its main topic is New Generation, so the program is designed with the aim of supporting young researchers from all over the world. That’s why it encompasses such unusual sections as workshops in science communic…

  06.09.2019

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

  …rve as the basis for the creation of various phosphors, development of laser elements, and laser generation. Right now, my work is closely related to the development of new laser materials. I study spectroscopic properties of the new complex low-symmetry crystals that are being synthesized by my colleagues in other research cente…

  06.09.2019

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

  …ver the course of the last four-five years, my colleagues and I have been conducting research in the field 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 rec…

  05.09.2019

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

  …to conduct most of her experiments. She also adds that ITMO’s “Biotechnologies of the Third Millennium” international research center is, too, very interested in searching for new promising sources of biologically active substances and new extraction methods. The young researchers will surely get lots of experience in this field while w…

  05.09.2019

• Student Orientation and Meetings with Scientists: ITMO Introduction Days

  …erksky Prospekt.  Such orientation events is a usual practice at large western universities with a significant number of international students, which need to introduce the newcomers into university life in a most expedient and comprehensive way possible. According to Evgenii Raskin, one of the Introduction Days organizers, head of ITMO University’s Youth Policy O…

  04.09.2019