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• Russia to Launch First Educational Media-Project on Cancer Prevention

  …What is cancer prevention The words "prevention" and "cancer" are rarely found in one sentence. Usually someone begins to acknowledge cancer, read about it and talk about it openly only once they have been diagnosed themselves. And while this problem is not there, it is easier and much more pleasant not to think about this disease, and ignore it completely. Howeve…

  08.12.2017

• ITMO’s Master's Students Share Experiences from Ireland Internship

  …e). The article we are writing in collaboration with Trinity College will become the second or even third for each of us, as we work on several projects at the same time. For instance, we are now working on an article in collaboration with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on ferment activity in magnetite. How did you get to participate in this internship? E.…

  08.12.2017

• Things to Do in St. Petersburg this Weekend: December 9-10

  …! Doctor!” (1917), “A Night Out” (1915) and “The High Sign” (1921). The Easy Winners Ragtime Band will score the movies - this long-lived band plays 20’s tunes on all sorts of instruments, including a washboard and a “washtub bass”. Hurry - there aren’t many tickets left! Nowness Festival of Happiness Where: Dom Kino, Karavannaya st., 12 When: December 9-10,…

  07.12.2017

• ITMO Tops Science Popularisation Ranking

  …nked by Indicator got divided into four groups. ITMO topped the first group by scoring 36 points out of 39. Tomsk Polytechnic University, Higher School of Economics and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology were also included in the first group - with a minimal gap in scores, as compared to ITMO. The second group included universities that scored from 20 to 29 p…

  07.12.2017

• New U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman Visits ITMO

  …t the commercialization of scientific achievements and provide students with the opportunity to implement their own projects. The Ambassador also noted that MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is interested in collaborating with ITMO University. Jon Huntsman and Rector Vladimir Vasilyev During his visit, Ambassador Huntsman was also given  a special t…

  06.12.2017

• ITMO.REGIONS Startup School Comes to Volgograd State Technical University

  …pared project descriptions for the investors and did everything one needs to start a company. The winner, Sergey Kuznetsov, succeeded in adopting an entirely business approach instead of a scientific one. I would also note that the participants were very receptive of the training. This is important since there are very few programs and people in the region who are ab…

  06.12.2017

• ITMO’s Team Wins Europe’s Largest Robotics Contest Robotex 2017

  …ed from it. Ultimately, we could agree and form a team of four people for whom we prepared an individual educational program which includes various project activities," - explains Alexander Kapitonov, assistant at the Department of Control Systems and Informatics. According to Alexander Kapitonov, project activity is one of the educational priorities for the tea…

  06.12.2017

• New technology allows safe MRI-diagnostics for people with implants

  …eta-surface, in this case, is an ordered structure of metal resonators placed in a non-conducting medium. This structure is capable of redistributing the electromagnetic field inside the CT scanner and concentrating it around itself. If one places it under the part of the body which is being examined, reception and transmission of the local signal will improve, and t…

  05.12.2017

• Treating a Common Cold the Russian Way

  … saltwater gargle, or sometimes gargling an iodine solution. Both methods are popular in Russia, too, but there are some other versions I had never heard of until I came here. Instead of salt, many are known to gargle a baking soda solution. To ease a sore throat, a doctor recently prescribed me to gargle some chamomile tea that I made myself using dried chamomile te…

  05.12.2017

• Fifth Year of Technology Brokering School Begins at ITMO University

  … did that. Others will work with the university’s inventions. Altogether, we’ve selected 15 participants this year, eight of whom will take part in the practical module,” explains Igor Kuprinenko, Head of ITMO’s Centre for Project Management and Fundraising. Igor Kuprinenko (on the right) As mentioned above, there are three types of participation suites avail…

  05.12.2017