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• ITMO Researchers Present New Inventions at AGRORUS-2020 Expo

  …always be recycled as fertilizer.” Even increasing the percentage of recycled secondary products, such as hides and other animal parts, says the professor, won’t help solve the issue of a deficit of animal protein. “The more extensively we recycle a cow carcass, the more expensive the end product, and, at some point when we start recycling everything, t…

  15.09.2020

• Medical Discoveries That Changed the World

  … a Nobel Prize, except for Rosalind Franklin who died before the award assignment. She often gets overlooked, even though she, an X-ray crystallographer, made a huge impact in solving DNA structure. The birth of immunology In 1908 Ilya Mechnikov, a Russian microbiologist, cytologist, embryologist, immunologist, physiologist, and pathologist, was awarded a N…

  15.09.2020

• Blended Learning: Best of Online and Offline

  …es teachers from the need to answer similar questions multiple times, as well as makes students more self-reliant: when asking questions in the chat, they often find ways to resolve their issues without waiting for the teacher’s response. The physical “absence” of the teacher and the university itself increases the distance between them and the student, which is w…

  14.09.2020

• International Opportunities for ITMO Students in 2020

  …rmitory, and getting to know the city and the university. A personal "buddy", whose task is to make the stay of an international student as comfortable as possible and help in solving any problem, is attached to each of them. Club members receive a whole set of bonuses at once: not only the opportunity to develop communication skills, improve their language skills…

  14.09.2020

• ITMO Scientists are on the Verge of Designing Pathogen-Based Drug Delivery Systems

  … represented ions: it participates in the transmission of nerve impulses and muscle contraction. At the same time, carbonate ions generated by the interaction of water with dissolved carbon dioxide, when interacting with calcium ions, produce the material we already know. For this reason, calcium carbonate is known by our body, and for a very long time”. Bac…

  11.09.2020

• Picture of the Week: Dendrites of Semiconductor Quantum Dots

  …mage. The branching structures shown on the picture are dendrites of luminescent semiconductor nanocrystals – quantum dots resulting from self-organization under controlled solvent evaporation.  To obtain such structures, a drop of quantum dot solution is applied to a glass slide and dried in a desiccator. The type of the observed structures is completely deter…

  11.09.2020

• New Astronautics: Who Rules Space and How to Make Money off It?

  …ce extraction on other planets. No one’s and everyone's  Countries operate in space according to international regulations. But there are problems that can’t be solved by no treaty, agreement or order; for example, what to do if some country wants to militarize space (test dual purpose technologies). Will it be a rule of force, or should such issues be…

  10.09.2020

• ITMO University to Host Modern Art Exhibition 2020 → 2070

  …,” explains Mikhail Slobodinsky. “Basically, the kids who now inhabit ITMO’s hallways will see these images and take in the artists’ message of which issues they should aim to solve. It’s a call for applications of sorts, a petition. For instance, we want scientists to look into the subject of aging. Therefore, at the entrance they’ll be greeted by an artwork, create…

  08.09.2020

• ITMO.GO Celebration of First-Year Students: Open Air, Dancing and DJ Sets

  …erest. Even though we only studied some basics, like Pascal and Python, I still have an understanding of the field. I can write a program, for example, but it’s hard for me to solve analytical or complex problems. That’s why I felt business informatics was better for me than applied informatics.  Mikhail Proskudin and Vladislav Kirichenko, St. Petersburg  Bache…

  07.09.2020

• ITMO Resident LLS Company Develops Lab for Working with Laser and Optical Equipment

  … special purposes and unconventional tasks. At the lab, our customers can take a look at how measurement equipment or equipment for welding fibers work, see its interface, try solving their tasks on this equipment and make sure that it fits them. In the future, we also have plans for developing an accreditation center, as well.” The lab has modern welding un…

  07.09.2020