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• ITMO Student’s Smart Toothbrush Concept Wins National Stage of James Dyson Award

  …up. We’re now entering the assembly stage, during which we’ll sort out any drawbacks. But that’s why we have the second stage. What will that be like? We’ve already met staff from Dyson who filmed and shot our application, which is already up on the competition’s website. As I understand it, ours and others’ applications will be reviewed by James Dyson himself.…

  22.09.2020

• Metanano 2020 on Gender Inequality in Science

  …led one of the most notorious cases when such restrictions were introduced. In 2019, the Eindhoven University of Technology, where women make up only about 20% of the faculty staff, announced that it would only accept women for academic positions. If a suitable candidate is not found within six months, men will also be able to send their CVs. The program is temporary…

  21.09.2020

• Programmer’s Day at ITMO University: Programming Championship, IT Lectures, and Online Concert

  …ould join an online lecture hall. On that day, the main topics were the Avatar of ITMO University, programming skills in art, and IT professions at VK. Lidia Perovskaya, a staff member at VK, described in detail the range of tasks of a designer, web, and mobile developer at VK. She explained what a project manager, analyst, tester does, and what people are needed …

  18.09.2020

• Picture of the Week: Magneto-Active Glass-Ceramics

  …The glowing material in the picture isn’t a jewel – it’s a piece of magneto-active glass-ceramics created by the staff of ITMO University’s Research Center for Optical Material Engineering. This material is unusual because its optical properties (the way it absorbs or emits light) depend on the way a magnetic field affects it. For example, in the picture, the piec…

  18.09.2020

• ITMO University Hosts Virtual Smart-Up Camp 'Innovations for Smart Cities in BSR'

  …al ecosystem to eat some ice cream and meet the new residents in an informal environment (in wintertime, the ice cream is substituted for pancakes). Aleksandra Fedeneva Staff member of ITMO University’s International Programs and Projects Office I was invited to take part and join one of the teams. I picked the Highpark challenge seeing as it’s directly …

  17.09.2020

• Student Spotlight: Gabriel Guerra, Ecuador

  …a was quite easy, once I got the scholarship and the invitation from the University. Basically, you just need to fill in a form and pay for the visa. Back in the embassy, the staff were very helpful to do this.” Gabriel’s first impression of Russia was in the airport when he realized that everything was written in some kind of indecipherable hieroglyphs. “Luckil…

  17.09.2020

• Bike Ride With the Rector 12.0: Participants Share Their Impressions and Pandemic Experience

  … the KronBars sports club was there for the cyclists to show some school spirit and encourage them.  By six o’clock, when the start was planned, several dozen students and staff from different university departments gathered on the spot – it resembled a showcase of various vehicles: folding, mountain, and city bikes, scooters, e-scooters, and even one unicycle. …

  16.09.2020

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: September 19-20, 2020

  …Exhibition Lk 15, 11–32. Rembrandt. Dedication, Alexander Sokurov September 16 – November 1 The General Staff Building   500 rubles It is said that Rembrandt’s The Return of the Prodigal Son is currently the crown of the Hermitage’s collection – and, perhaps, rightfully so. In this multimedia exhibition adapted from the original project presented at th…

  16.09.2020

• ITMO Researchers Present New Inventions at AGRORUS-2020 Expo

  …ot a pool of projects that are ready for commercialization, including natural immunostimulatory additives for bees, edible food packaging for cheeses, and more.” Two staff members of the School of Biotechnology and Cryogenic Systems received certificates from the Russian Ministry of Agriculture in recognition of the talks they delivered at the conference Qua…

  15.09.2020

• Public Transport in St. Petersburg

  …e is available throughout almost the entire city. Another way to explore the busy streets is on an electric scooter, such as Whoosh or Molnia. Good news for ITMO students and staff: you get to ride Whoosh scooters for free (as long as it’s between either of six ITMO-affiliated locations in the city). Just install the Whoosh app as well as the ITMO.STUDENTS app (App S…

  15.09.2020