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• ITMO Alumna Elena Petrova Awarded City’s Best Graduate Award

  The annual celebration of the best graduates of St. Petersburg was held today, on June 24, at the Peter and Paul Fortress. The ceremony was attended by Elena Petrova, a graduate of ITMO’s Faculty of Physics, who received the bronze sphinx statuette – a symbol of wisdom, intelligence, and perseverance.

  24.06.2024

• Start! With ITMO: Admissions Office Opens at ITMO

  Today, June 20, ITMO University opens its admissions office on Kronverksky Pr. 49 for prospective students who want to apply for Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD programs in person; online admissions are available, as well. This year, the university introduced three new Bachelor’s and five new Master’s programs. Most programs are implemented in collaboration with Yandex, Sberbank, and other tech giants.

  20.06.2024

• ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #57

  Things are heating up and we don’t just mean the weather! We’ve always got something to share when it comes to our regular digest of all things science, but this time around it’s a particularly rich harvest. New materials, medical tech of the future, educational innovations, thought-provoking science art, and the best AI tools for every craft – all in our latest science roundup.

  17.06.2024

• PI School: Rising Stars – First-Hand Experience

  For several years now, ITMO has organized its PI School in spring, welcoming everyone who wishes to expand their academic horizons and is thinking about managing their own research team one day. This year, I was one of them, actively battling my imposter syndrome, as well as networking and soaking in all the knowledge. Here’s my insider’s take on what it feels like to train to be a PI.

  14.06.2024

• Earthquake-Sensing Cats and Perfume for Insects: All About ITMO’s STAGE 2024 Science Art Exhibition

  STAGE, the annual science art exhibition of projects by  graduates of the Art & Science Master’s program, has opened in St. Petersburg, inviting visitors to feel generational memory by touch, enter a space simulation, and take a closer look at the relationship between humans, technology, and the environment.

  13.06.2024

• This Week in St. Petersburg: June 13-19, 2024

  All the exams and thesis defenses are nearly over and that means one thing: summer is taking over! For now, only fun events, new discoveries, and, hopefully, good weather. Are you ready for an adventurous week? With our freshly-baked guide to the best events in town, you better be!

  12.06.2024

• 7 AI Tools to Make Your Life Easier

  AI has arrived – and it’s here to stay. Countless discussions on the ethics and value of generated content seem to have produced a consensus: you can’t make the algorithm do everything for you, but you can boost your efficiency by using it for reference, inspiration, and to eliminate tedious routine tasks. So, here are our picks for some of the best tools that have the potential to make your work, studies, and personal life easier.

  11.06.2024

• ITMO’s New Compound Disables Disease-Producing Genes 17 Times Faster Than Counterparts

  Scientists from ITMO University have created a new compound – bivalent DNAzymes: these are short, connected therapeutic DNA chains. The compound has four “arms” and two cores that enable it to find the target sequence even in the complex twisted messenger RNA of a gene, then bind with this site, and cleave it. Among the solution’s possible applications are new treatments for viral, oncological, and hereditary diseases at early stages. The DNAzyme was described in a paper published in Nucleic Acids Research.

  11.06.2024

• How To Get Your First Offer in Infosec

  Companies are experiencing a shortage of cybersecurity professionals. One-third of Russian businesses are searching for specialists in this field. Employers are often on the lookout for mid-level experts, however nearly half of those surveyed are also lacking interns. How can you increase your chances of a job offer? Where should you seek work experience if you don’t have any? And what should and shouldn’t you include in your CV? Anastasiia Krasnova, an IT recruiter at Avito, tackled all these questions at Positive Hack Days Fest 2.

  10.06.2024

• Russian Folk Dress: Fashion Items From Centuries Ago

  Today’s fashion is pretty much universal and people wear similar outfits in many places all over the world. But what was it like before mass-produced clothing was a thing? What did Russians in particular wear on a daily basis hundreds of years ago? Let’s find out.

  10.06.2024