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Urban Scientist Steve Kuddins on Overfencing in St. Petersburg: Causes and Solutions
…ed with traffic lights - about 10,000 a day. So, the issue here was about having two pedestrian crossings. In several months, our report made it to the governor. In the end, a new pedestrian crossing was created on the location of the spontaneous trail, but the former one was eliminated. This is just another example of how the city officials care about regulations on…
13.07.2018
Young Scientists From ITMO University Win IEEE Photonics Society Awards
…onal Research and Educational Center for Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, Tel Aviv University PhD student Dmitry Filonov and ITMO University PhD student Alena Schelokova. ITMO.NEWS met the winners to talk about their work, scientific achievements, and the future of their projects that were singled out by the IEEE Photonics Society grant. Alena Schelokova, PhD stud…
13.07.2018
Taking a Glance at Academic Writing in Arizona
…to ITMO to conduct training for our English language lecturers, content teachers and students. The work of the Academic Writing Lab at ITMO University will continue to develop new effective ways to support students and professors engaged in academic writing in English.…
12.07.2018
TEDxSZIU: Experts Share Their Vision of the Future
…estival. The event brought together not just artists and activists, but also poets, representatives of scenic art and many other incentivized people - all of them searched for new ways of transforming the city and its architectural space. Gradually, representatives of other fields became involved in their discussion - sociologists, architects, etc., who also contr…
12.07.2018
From Tour de France to the World Cup: Cryosaunas Developed at ITMO University
This Weekend in St. Petersburg: July 14-15
…tsa Dybenko metro station to Shlisselburg, which departs every 20 minutes (the trip takes about 1,5 hours), and when you’re there, get a ferry ticket to the fortress. Great news for music lovers! The 7th St. Petersburg International All Together Opera Festival is a unique opportunity to listen to all-time classics free of charge! The festival starts on July 12 in …
11.07.2018
Campus Festival: How Studying Emotions Helps Urban Developers
…rators can follow the ideology of Urban Science and make the decision to expand. For instance, a project has been planned on connecting such creative spaces as Sevkabel Port, New Holland, and others via St. Petersburg's waterways. This is a great idea; if it were to come to life, then the previously unrelated districts of the city will begin to form a common semanti…
11.07.2018
‘New Wallet’ Founder Mikhail Leontiev: ‘My Ultimate Goal is to Make People Associate Russia with Business’
… Your first encounter with Tyvek-made accessories was during a trip to the US you went on when you were still at university. Was it back then that you got the inspiration for ‘New Wallet’? We went to the States as part of the Work and Travel program which was recommended to us by a friend who at that point had already been to the US a couple of times. Now we ourse…
11.07.2018
Travel Tips: Incomplete and Subjective Guide to Summer in Tallinn
…en to Tallinn 15 or 16 times in the last ten years. I’ve strolled its curvy streets, climbed every accessible tower, but this city is still full of surprises for me. Something new pops up every time I go there. However, I’ve made my own list of must-sees, - eats and -walks that I follow while I am there. I share it with everyone who risks to ask me: “What do you reco…
10.07.2018
How Blockchain Technologies Are Changing Everyday Professions
…ws: for instance, the high commission on transactions between users, and great capacities spent on mining. The blockchain of the future will account for these issues and offer new solutions. The most optimal protocols are being created at this very moment and by those developers who come to us," comments Dmitry Plahov. The effect of blockchain on professions…
10.07.2018