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• ITMO.OPEN: Educational Practices Conference Sheds Light on New Understanding of Uni Administration

  … notes Mikhail Kurushkin. “We pay attention to every employee and, naturally, want everyone to be involved in resolving issues. But a faculty should function according to a specific model that can be tinkered with, but can’t be swapped out entirely. And that should be understood by everyone, even big-name renowned scientists.” According to Alexandr Kapitonov, st…

  01.06.2021

• Song of the Month: May 2021

  …plays all but one of a dozen instruments. With the album designed as two continuous sequences made to fit perfectly onto the two sides of a vinyl, it can be tough to pick a specific track – they all flow too perfectly into one another. However, the three-parter Blues Inside Me is undoubtedly one of the top highlights: a cosmic prog-rock ballad that’ll make anyone tap…

  28.05.2021

• ITMO Scientists Find a Way to Turn Blood Into Protein

  …nd amino acids). But there’s a problem: if you add more than 5% of blood meal to animal feed, it becomes unappealing to the animals. It may have something to do with the specific taste and aroma of hemoglobin that animals find unpleasant.  “My team and I have found a solution to this issue,” says Pavel Demidov. “We separate the protein-lipid complex from the …

  27.05.2021

• Bike Ride With the Rector 13.0: Participants Share Their Impressions

  …way, I ride my scooter to the university every day. Once, I rented a bike for the ride, but I don’t really like renting because whichever ride you pick is just not designed specifically for you. And your own scooter is fine-tuned to meet your needs. When I was on my way, I was worried about the weather but Yandex promised that there’ll be no rain and was right. Ye…

  27.05.2021

• Student Startups: ITMO Hosts Meeting With XAMK University and Patteri Entrepreneurship Society

  …Olesya Baranyuk noted, ITMO supports its students’ desire to combine work and study. That’s why it introduced the Startup as a Thesis initiative in 2015, which was designed specifically for young entrepreneurs. Over the years, the program achieved remarkable results and began to extend to other universities. In 2020, ITMO University was selected as the federal operat…

  25.05.2021

• ITMO University Opens International Cybersecurity Center in St. Petersburg

  …uty head of Rostelecom-Solar.  The work of the center will be based on three main principles: openness, practical value, and synergy of fundamental research with field-specific tasks. Students will be trained by IT professionals who daily detect and deflect cyber attacks.  At the opening ceremony, representatives of ITMO and the center’s strategic partners pr…

  19.05.2021

• Kotlin Creator Andrey Breslav on His Psychotherapy Finder Service

  …rsonal problems that he had to work on: anxiety, high expectations for himself, and so on. This way, Andrey began to see psychotherapy as not just an instrument for solving specific problems but rather an essential element of self-improvement – and this had a great effect on his attitude towards the whole thing. The specialist who worked with Andrey used the cogni…

  19.05.2021

• Mind-Blowing Research of the Month: How and Why We Study Music’s Effects on the Brain

  …hat is, tapping experiments show that certain rhythms are somewhat more familiar to and present in traditional musical pieces across cultures, while others might be culture-specific. This is still a pretty nascent research field, but the potential conclusions are already fascinating – as any universal features can potentially provide us insight into the evolution of …

  18.05.2021

• ITMO Robotics Team Wins RoboCup Russia Open

  …MO Cybertheater. We have three musical robots now, including the famous ELSA and Seldon (Seldon, the winner of various awards, including the silver medal at the RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2017, plays the guitar, and ELSA, the second-place winner at RoboCup 2019, is a flute virtuoso).” As of now, the team awaits the decision of the international organizing committee re…

  18.05.2021

• ITMO.FUTURE 2.0: Winners Announced

  … consumption, healthy nutrition, and creating green spaces. In the second stage, 13 applications were received, of which the expert board chose 7 names to take charge on specific projects. Detailed expert assessments and comments on every applicant can be found here (in Russian). Here are the winners’ names: 1. Ekaterina Kukhtenko, group B3220 Project: Fit…

  18.05.2021