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• ITMO Summerschool: Nanostructures, Experiments and Chemical engineering

  This June, ITMO summer schools for tenth graders offer an opportunity to create your own nanostructure, learn how to solve the most complicated problems and learn what chemical engineering is all about. The staff of the Faculty of Physics and Engineering and the Biochemistry cluster guide the students in mastering the material and working on their own projects. Today we will tell you how this summer school can lead to “real” science.

  19.06.2018

• ITMO University Earns First Place in Computer Science Ranking

  ITMO University took the first place in computer science and the third place in chemistry and chemical technologies in Expert Analytical Center's subject rankings of Russian universities. The independent ranking focuses on evaluation and assessment of scientific work in universities.

  14.05.2018

• SCAMT Member on New Approaches to Chemical Education

  Chemistry, physics, biology - these are the subjects that most students study through rote learning; only  few  of them actually develop a meaningful understanding of the general concepts and processes. Still, the problem here is not that some do have the aptitude for learning natural sciences and some don’t; it is more about the educational approaches used at most schools and universities. Mikhail Kurushkin, a new lecturer at ITMO’s Research and Educational Center of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, believes that we can and must change them. Mr. Kurushkin has developed interactive educational methods that are based on games,  schematic  representation of information, active communication and VR technologies. In an interview for ITMO.NEWS, he shared  about  his idea of a perfect educational process, and of how a proper approach to education can help master any field of science.

  14.03.2018

• ITMO and Mel Science Launch Affiliate Program for Kids

  Can a school student make a battery all by himself? How to grow chemical seaweed and jellyfish, and explain ionic replacement reactions to primary school students? ITMO University and the Mel Science company launch a new affiliate program that will teach kids chemistry in a way that is both enticing and safe. The children will get to work with chemical agents, explore many natural processes, and learn why chemical experiments are not only  spectacular,  but immensely interesting, as well. The program is feasible for children who are eight years old and older.

  06.03.2018

• Chemist Ekaterina Skorb On International Work Experience And Prospects Of Infochemistry

  In the course of her scientific career, Ekaterina Skorb has worked in four different countries. After receiving her education in Minsk, she continued  with  her research at Max Planck Institute in Germany where she led a research team and developed smart biomaterials. At Harvard, she worked in the team of George Whitesides, the world’s most cited chemist, on several fundamental projects, including the Origins of Life. As of now, Ekaterina Skorb is a professor at ITMO University, leading a research team in its Biochemistry Cluster. Among its key projects are creating dynamic optical materials, biochips that would allow to diagnose a wide range of diseases, and fundamental research in the field of storing information with the help of chemical systems. In an interview for ITMO.NEWS, she talked about her work in the world’s major universities and moving to Russia, key research areas, and combining chemistry with IT.

  12.02.2018

• Food Chemistry: “Natural” Doesn’t Always Mean “Good”

  Do you know that cucumber bumps contain poison? Actually, most of the natural products we eat are not as harmless as we believe them to be. It is just that in the course of their evolution, they failed to learn to escape from the meanest predator - the human being. Sergei Belkov - chemical engineer,  flavourist , and blogger - explains why everything that we eat is chemistry, and there’s no use in seeking to use “natural” products only.

  09.02.2018

• Cheap, Eco-Friendly, Biocompatible: Bright Prospects For Nanocellulose

  Nanocrystalline cellulose is said to be the material of the future. It can be synthesized from wood and recycled from paper, which makes it highly affordable; it is eco-friendly and biocompatible. Thanks to its distinctive mechanical and optical qualities, the prolate form of particles, as well as certain properties of the material’s surface, nanocrystalline cellulose is already applied in many fields, and scientists expect to soon find even more applications for it. In this article, we’ve decided to cover the possible uses of this promising material.

  08.02.2018

• Chemist Artem Oganov: On Blind Spots in Chemistry and Materials of Future

  Today Artem Oganov is rightly considered one of the most famous Russian scientists of the new generation. Oganov is a theoretical crystallographer and the creator of a number of new materials – as well as methods of discovering them. A few years ago he solved the problem of predicting the crystal structure of a substance based on its chemical composition. This problem was for long considered to be unsolvable. Oganov created software capable of predicting stable chemical compounds based on a set of initial elements. His discoveries are so impressive that many consider him one of the likely candidates for the Nobel Prize in the next few years. Having worked abroad for 17 years - in England, Switzerland and the United States - at 37 he decided to return to Russia, where he became a professor of Skoltech and headed the Laboratory of Computer Design of Materials at MIPT. During an open lecture at ITMO University, Oganov spoke about his career abroad, his return home, materials of the future and creation of an evolutionary mechanism for predicting substance structures, which proves that even in well-known areas of chemistry there are still many "blind spots". Main points of the event - in this article by ITMO.NEWS.

  02.11.2017

• Divide and Conquer: How S&R Built a Successful Chemical Startup in Russia

  S&R Systems, a resident of ITMO University’s business incubator, is working on the optimization of chemical technology processes in manufacturing and laboratories with a strict focus on import phase-out. The company’s equipment is cheaper than its foreign-made counterparts and is made according to clients’ custom requirements. Founders Denis Sapegin and Mikhail Razin spoke with us about the tasks their company solves, lifehacks for finding angel investors at bars and indifferent engineers.

  30.08.2017

• ITMO and VNIIM Develop Joint Master's Program in Metrology

  This summer, ITMO University and the Mendeleev National Research Institute of Metrology (VNIIM) have put out a call for applicants to a Master’s degree program in “Standardization and Metrology in High-Tech Industry”. The new Master’s program, developed by specialists from ITMO and VNIIM, consists of 20 highly specific subjects that exist on the intersection of math, computer science, physics, chemistry, economics and ecology.

  25.07.2017