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ITMO.OPEN: Educational Practices Conference Sheds Light on New Understanding of Uni Administration
…nges? “It’s important to find an individual approach here,” 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-nam…
01.06.2021
Student and Staff: Sofia Antipova Gets the Best of Both Worlds
…pline, Internationalization of Research (and it was a course of the Soft Skills block!). During the summer of 2019, I was helping with the course, communicating with teachers, solving organizational issues, etc. Could you tell us about your early days at the Internationalization Department? In late summer 2019, I was offered a job at the Internationalization D…
27.05.2021
ITMO Holds Open Education Conference
…s when students were complaining about something that they didn’t like – such things can also be turned into constructive critique through dialogue, and then we try to fix and solve problems together.…
25.05.2021
ITMO Graduate Maksim Latkin on His Experience of Working as a Systems Engineer
…l company where I now work. Although many other things I had to learn on the spot. The university taught me something else: the ability to understand, think for myself, and solve tasks. It taught me to think outside the box, not as a school student, but as an independent young specialist. Most of all, I am grateful to ITMO as I was able to join the Selectel team i…
21.05.2021
Latvian Student on the Challenges of Distance Learning and Closed Borders
…ous semester, I submitted tasks and got no feedback from the teacher for the whole semester. Then, during the final test, the teacher said she was not satisfied with the way I solved my homework tasks. To put it mildly, it was too late. On the other hand, it’s easier for me to talk to our lecturers remotely. I am quite a shy person, and therefore it is more conven…
20.05.2021
ITMO Hosts First Russian Hult Prize Impact Summit Supported by UN
…ing plant-based protein from the Cassia obtusifolia plant. Kawal, the plant’s fermented leaves, are rich in protein and can be used as a cheap meat substitute, which will help solve the acute problem of hunger in Sudan. Moreover, as it is becoming more common to substitute meat with alternative sources of protein, the technology has the potential to be popular with a…
19.05.2021
ITMO University Opens International Cybersecurity Center in St. Petersburg
… will receive training in cryptographic data protection methods, multiagent systems, methods for designing information security solutions for cyberphysical systems, as well as solve practical tasks set by the center’s business partners. Implementing data security projects at the intersection of science and business is the main aim of the research center. “We be…
19.05.2021
Kotlin Creator Andrey Breslav on His Psychotherapy Finder Service
… but his personal 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 use…
19.05.2021
Yandex’s Andrey Sebrant on Progress, Society and Podcasts
…hat, I got invited to various podcasts, and I often got bored. They asked me obvious questions like “when will robots enslave humanity?” or “how would Yandex’s driverless cars solve the trolley problem?” At first it was fun, then I became annoyed with it. When I understood that it won’t be getting better, I got the notion that if I wanted to talk about something, …
17.05.2021
Biologist Dmitry Zhukov on Stress, Depression, and Displacement Activities
…is a reaction to a new significant stimulus, to a situation that demands making decisions quickly. It’s basically an adaptive reaction of our bodies that is supposed to either solve the problem or adapt to the situation. Animals experience stress if there is a direct threat to their life, for example, a predator’s attack. Humans, however, mostly stress over social…
14.05.2021