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• Per Aspera Ad Astra: ITMO.STARS Contest Results

  …ns were submitted by school students from St. Petersburg, Moscow, Veliky Novgorod, Vladivostok, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Voronezh, Kaliningrad, Tver, Tomsk, Ulyanovsk, Chelyabinsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, and other Russian cities. There was only one criterion for participation: you have to get the minimal Unified State Exam score (in mos…

  07.08.2018

• “Will Musk Catch Up With Korolev”: Private Space Industry's Journey to the Stars

  …rojects that everyone considers to be unprofitable and with no real chance of success. One example of this is his never-ending quest for reusable rockets. Although it works against him by dragging down the productivity and profits of his enterprise, he clearly won’t rest until he fulfills his rocket reusability goal. Which questions are left to be solved befor…

  07.08.2018

• Vacation With a Purpose: Science Tourism and Citizen Science

  …orod, and Samara. It’s worth mentioning that the growing interest in making the information on local pollution levels more accessible has already become a global trend. For instance, in France, Israel, and Russia, startups that focus on providing such data in real time mode are becoming all the more popular. Among those are such projects as Plumelabs, Breezometer,…

  06.08.2018

• Science Communicator Fred Balvert: 'For a Journalist, Geniuine Interest Matters More Than Knowledge'

  …of scientific progress, but its active participants and stakeholders. There are many ways to involve the society in research, to make people help science and influence it. For instance, patients’ experiences are a unique source of data for researchers and medical experts from which they can learn more about this or that disease. That’s why patient data collection tec…

  06.08.2018

• Celebrate Your Birthday Like a Russian

  …avy lifting when it comes to cooking and organizing so all the birthday boy or girl has to do is show up and enjoy. That’s not the Russian way. Even if you’re getting by on instant noodles, you’ll be hosting a party for all your close and not so close friends and also a second one at school or at work. Because hospitality in many ways equals friendship here. …

  06.08.2018

• Movie Fridays: A Matter Of Time

  …ool student from the 80s who accidentally travels back in time to 1955 when his parents were teenagers. The funniest thing is that his then-young mother falls in love with him instead of his shy and clumsy father; to remain alive, Marty has to become his parents' matchmaker. Back to the Future is a breathtaking mix of sci-fi, action, romance and comedy that will imme…

  03.08.2018

• ITMO University Expands BIM Program in Partnership with Industry Leaders

  …nges to the structure. “Modeling a system of interconnected elements helps us save time when designing a building and preparing the necessary paperwork. Any change has an instant effect on the entire model. Imagine that if, in the process of design, you remove a window, you will no longer have to rewrite all of the documentation; it’s already been done automatic…

  03.08.2018

• Building A New Generation of Drugs: SCAMT Laboratory Scientists On Rational Chemical Design Using Metal-Organic Frameworks

  …cer treatments, which are notorious for their negative side-effects. By adsorbing the drugs to the pores of the framework structure, we can minimize the harm they cause,” explains SCAMT Laboratory researcher Anna Simagina. The main advantage of the framework-based drug delivery systems is that they can make the delivery process much more controllable. Since fram…

  03.08.2018

• Hermitage, Football, and Lots of Programming: Summer Camp at ITMO

  …ogramming was their first suggestion. I thought that this would be very useful for me because it would let me connect the skills and knowledge I’ll acquire to my thesis,” explains Enrique. Part of the experience has been observing interesting differences between the teaching approach in Russia and in their home countries. All the students noted that in Russi…

  02.08.2018

• The Results of Workshop Week at SCAMT Lab

  …rned about new applications of biomedicine. The lecturers shared their own experiences and told us about the current state of science in Russia and abroad. Everyone here is so inspired, it’s contagious. I’m thinking of changing my area of study and getting into nanotechnology, and ITMO University is one of the options that I’m considering. Ekaterina Kutsenok, Mosc…

  02.08.2018