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• ITMO Psychologist’s Advice: How To Reduce Stress and Prepare for Exams

  The 2023 admission campaign is in full swing, which means thousands of prospective students are currently prepping their portfolios, submitting their contest results, and taking entrance exams – which, by the way, will come to an end on August 2. We know that exams can be stressful, so we’ve asked Evgeniya Ostasheva, a psychologist at ITMO’s Medical, Psychological and Social Assistance Center, for some practical tips on how to stay sane during exam season.

  04.07.2023

• Our Team’s Songs for Rainy Summer Days

  Summer in St. Petersburg is unpredictable: one minute you might be soaking in the white nights – and the next you will be soaking wet under pouring rain. Our coping mechanism? Music, of course! Allow these tunes to sugar the pill of a rainy summer day for you – they sure do for us.

  30.06.2023

• Digital Happiness: Winning Solutions from Be ITMO Hackathon

  The recent Be ITMO hackathon brought together over 100 participants, who spent four days developing their prototypes of digital services that can help students get the most of their university life. Winners of the hackathon shared the 220,000 rubles prize fund and secured their chance of implementing their projects with the university’s tech teams. 

  30.06.2023

• Student From China on Why Choose Russia and ITMO

  Born and bred in Heihe, Xiaobo Li has been studying Russian virtually since he was a kid. By the end of school, he set his heart on studying in Russia. His desire to visit a foreign country and master information technologies brought him to ITMO where he got a Bachelor’s degree in humanities and IT and is currently pursuing his Master’s in digital transformation strategies and technologies. In this interview, Xiaobo Li shared his studying experience with ITMO.NEWS.

  29.06.2023

• Tools for Scientists: Use These to Bring Your Search for Papers to the Next Level

  Unfortunately, it’s not enough to just complete your research if you want to publish it in a high-ranking journal. You need to find your collaborators and select the right journal – not to mention correctly compiling your application. This sounds like a lot of work, but luckily there are a lot of services that can help you on this quest. Ivan Sterligov, Russia’s leading expert on scientometrics and science communication and advisor to Vice Rector at HSE University, has shared his favorite tools at a recent webinar hosted by ITMO Library. Here is a summary of his talk.

  28.06.2023

• ITMO Alumni and Employee Among St. Petersburg’s Top Graduates of 2023

  An annual awards ceremony to acknowledge the most distinguished graduates of St. Petersburg was held today, on June 28, at the Peter and Paul Fortress. Among this year’s best is Andrey Suvorov, a graduate of ITMO’s Faculty of Infocommunication Technologies, who was awarded a bronze sphinx statuette, which symbolizes wisdom, intelligence, and perseverance.

  28.06.2023

• ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #33

  Step into the whirlwind of life at ITMO with this overview of all things science: a singular publication, a discussion of AI in education, the launch of our new admissions campaign… and much more. Keep reading to discover it all. 

  26.06.2023

• ITMO Students Win Google’s Image Matching Challenge 2023

  Jaafar Mahmoud and Ammar Ali, PhD students at the Faculty of Control Systems and Robotics and the Information Technologies and Programming Faculty, took gold at Image Matching Challenge 2023, having surpassed almost 500 teams from around the world.

  26.06.2023

• Data-Based Medical Solutions: How Practicing Clinicians Can Benefit From Master’s in Public Health Sciences

  In order to excel at their job, medical professionals need insights from population studies. These help to understand the spread of diseases, determine risk factors, and evaluate the effect of treatments on a wider scale. In order to operate with this data, clinicians can use statistical and sociological methods. The application of these tools for public health is the focus of ITMO’s dedicated Master’s program. We talked about the benefits of such training for medical professionals with endocrinologist Anastasia Kryuchkova, a student in the program.

  23.06.2023

• ITMO University During World War II

  June 22 is the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow in Russia. On June 22, exactly 82 years ago, German troops invaded the Soviet Union, causing millions of people, including students and staff of LITMO (the Leningrad Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics, the former name of ITMO University) to go to the front. But even with the ongoing war, research activities were not put on stop. Scientists who remained in the city continued their studies despite the harsh realities of the war, designing and repairing optical devices, including those meant to protect Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). Learn more about how the university lived and worked during the Second World War in the article.

  22.06.2023