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• Per Aspera Ad Astra: ITMO.STARS Contest Results

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

  …x Valier did research of rocket-powered vehicles and solid-state engines, but then he realized that these old technologies would lead science nowhere. So he moved to exploring new areas like liquid-fueled engines, petrol vapors, and processes of combustion. The concept of reusing spacecraft equipment also appeared long before Musk started his space research. In th…

  07.08.2018

• Vacation With a Purpose: Science Tourism and Citizen Science

  …oject that has existed for almost ten years already collected detailed classifications of roughly 250,000 of the brightest galaxies. What is more, thanks to this initiative, a new type of galaxies has been discovered: the “Green Pea” galaxies that were often identified by the project’s participants. The service’s popularity led to the emergence of other similar proje…

  06.08.2018

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

  …begin? I studied to be a journalist and from practice I developed myself into a communications advisor. My work as a science communicator started when I was writing for the newspaper of Erasmus University Rotterdam. Here I “translated” scientific topics and interviews with researchers to make them more accessible to the wider public. At the same time I had been wr…

  06.08.2018

• Celebrate Your Birthday Like a Russian

  …e they won’t. Maybe they’ll sing a sad song about birthdays being only once a year from a famous Soviet cartoon. Or you can catch up on the current birthday trends with new Russian favorite Masha and the Bear: …

  06.08.2018

• Movie Fridays: A Matter Of Time

  …ely popular Soviet director Leonid Gaidai, Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future is probably the most popular Soviet movie ever made and the one that Russians watch on TV every New Year's Eve. The story features an absent-minded scientist Shurik (Alexander Demyanenko) who creates a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager Ivan Vasilievich (Yur…

  03.08.2018

• ITMO University Expands BIM Program in Partnership with Industry Leaders

  … is also reflected in the actions of major Russian software developers. Companies 1C and Askon have already begun developing their own BIM software. Specialists for the new trade The government order includes a point about the training of information modeling specialists. Since last year, ITMO University has been training such specialists as part of the occ…

  03.08.2018

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

  …g the whole framework material at the nanoscale. In terms of theoretical chemistry research, it’s a very ambitious goal. But we believe that our findings will help to create a new generation of highly effective and safe drugs,” says SCAMT Laboratory researcher Mikhail Polynski. Reference: Towards rational design of metal-organic framework-based drug delivery sys…

  03.08.2018

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

  … Roh. Apart from benefiting them academically, the camp has helped the students gain some multicultural experience that allowed them to see their own countries from a new perspective. “What surprised me the most were the high buildings. Everything is so huge. And the fact that most people live in apartments. In Mexico, everyone lives in separate houses,…

  02.08.2018

• The Results of Workshop Week at SCAMT Lab

  …th-year Bachelor’s student At my university, I synthesize composite materials based on derivatives of graphene. When I got an email from the school, I thought it would mean new experience and contacts. Out of the six projects, I immediately went for the one that involved printing an optical sensor, as it’s the closest to what I already do. My own research also inv…

  02.08.2018