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ITMO University’s Work and Study Schedule from April 4 to April 30
…e with measures necessary to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) and also primarily online. The University will move the maximum possible number of staff to this work format. The measure will be in effect for the period of April 4–30, 2020. At the same time, on-site work will be allowed for those employees whose presence at their workpl…
04.04.2020
Don’t Panic: How to Keep It Together During a Pandemic
…g on your couch! By staying home, you not only keep yourself safe, but give medical researchers much-needed time to do their work,” says Olga Vershinina, PhD in biology and a staff member of the Komarov Botanical Institute. Panic: the norm or an issue? Changes, of which spring of 2020 has brought us plenty, are always a source of stress. Since we’re alive, we…
31.03.2020
Family to the Rescue: ITMO Volunteers Launch Effort to Help University’s Older Staff Members
…This is especially difficult for the elderly, who are also very susceptible to the coronavirus infection. So, the members of ITMO’s Volunteer Center decided to help the older staff members of the university who now have to refrain from any contacts with the outside world. “We are all part of one family and we help each other,” says Andrey Zlenko, Head of the Dep…
27.03.2020
ITMO University’s Work and Study Schedule from March 28 to April 5
…ty’s Rector from March 16, 2020, “On the organization of educational activities in the conditions of preventing the spread of the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) amongst staff and students”, St. Petersburg university already provided the implementation of educational programs in full with the use of online learning and distance learning technologies. ITMO Un…
26.03.2020
ITMO’s 120th Anniversary: Scientists Look Back on the University’s History Through the Prism of Their Fields
…ed at the Vavilov State Optical University. It used to function well, but then Yuri Nikolaevich had to leave for the Ioffe Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Lab’s staff stayed for some time, but later left for ITMO University along with the special equipment and their studies. Yuri Nikolaevich also worked at ITMO University. He was supervising research an…
26.03.2020
ITMO University Organizes an Exam for a World Maritime University Student
…. The exam includes two writing tasks: two hours for answering questions prepared at home, and three hours for an essay on not previously given topics. ITMO University’s staff supervised the exam and the timing. As Sofiia studies remotely at two universities at once, she has a lot of experience in distant learning. While all students in Russia also have t…
26.03.2020
Tbilisi to Host the International Conference on Metamaterials and Nanophotonics METANANO 2020
…METANANO 2020: participants and their geography The METANANO International Conference on Metamaterials and Nanophotonics is organized every year by the staff of ITMO University’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering together with their Russian and international colleagues. The first conference took place in 2014 in the Cuban city of Varadero, while 2016 marked the f…
25.03.2020
A Tour of Testa Center, GE’s Biotech R&D Facility in Uppsala, Sweden
…d other unusual materials. The variety of sources helps produce all sorts of shapes and textures, as well as regulate the density and flexibility of the final objects. The staff let us watch how a steel part is being made. We peek into a rectangular window and see the print head apply thin layers of metallic powder, which are welded together by a laser. After prin…
24.03.2020
Russian Scientists Propose New Approach to Measuring Atoms
…ffect the precision of forecast for new systems. Our method offers to considerably increase the precision of such forecasts.” The research made such an impression on the staff of ChemPhysChem that it has been decided to use it for the front page of their next issue. According to the authors, that happened not just because of the high significance of the research…
24.03.2020
Everything You Wanted to Know About ITMO’s Master’s Programs in Biotechnology