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• New Dean of Biotech Mikhail Kurushkin about the Future of the Faculty

  …We are planning to update and optimize our program to bring it up to an international level. We will focus on equipping our Bachelor’s students with receiving existing cutting-edge knowledge and skills, and our Master’s students will be at work generating new knowledge taking into account the demands of th…

  23.09.2020

• ITMO University’s New AIR Art Space: An Object of Unknown Purpose, Miracle Meadow and the Heart of a Goddess

  … Are we ready to believe in not-too-positive scientific forecasts or do we need some kind of faith in a bright future? I suggest that we no longer choose between rational knowledge and belief in miracles. This is a unique unit, a result of the joint work of biologists, nature, and programmers. At the heart of this project is Physarum polycephalum – the largest eukary…

  22.09.2020

• ITMO Student’s Smart Toothbrush Concept Wins National Stage of James Dyson Award

  …fic Center head] Ekaterina Skorb telling me about this young woman, Anastasia Balabanova, who needs help on a project. She’s a designer and needs someone with engineering knowledge. Anastasia wrote to me and told me about her idea – to put our potentiostat into an electric toothbrush. We got to work and made the device smaller so it would fit into a toothbrush. …

  22.09.2020

• Metanano 2020 on Gender Inequality in Science

  … important to maintain interest in engineering and the exact sciences in prospective students and scientists and show them that programming, robotics, optics are areas of knowledge in which everyone, not only men but also women, can succeed. It will help shape a future free of gender bias. “We can communicate with the world and talk about our principles,” notes …

  21.09.2020

• ITMO University Hosts Virtual Smart-Up Camp 'Innovations for Smart Cities in BSR'

  …“expedition” tours (for instance, the representatives of the Smart St. Petersburg project office had visited Tampere as part of a smart solution tour). As for exchange of knowledge, ITMO University actively works with universities in Aalto (Finland), Riga (Latvia), Karlsruhe (Germany), and Aarhus (Denmark), namely on issues of smart and green environments. The Ins…

  17.09.2020

• App Developed by an ITMO Student Won the VK Mini Apps Contest

  …. Learning and teaching Now the Simple Eco team is twice as big and new members bring new skills to the table. At the same time, the creators keep improving their knowledge of ecology and collect feedback in order to show even better results. “Before we launched the app, we showed it to the organizers of recycling events and they made their suggestions. …

  17.09.2020

• Student Spotlight: Gabriel Guerra, Ecuador

  …niversity located in St. Petersburg, which is famous for its talented students in IT programming. That’s how he discovered ITMO and this program that focuses on acquiring knowledge and skills in the field of distributed computing resources, virtualization, and computing services. He comments: “This technology called Cloud World, is not unfamiliar to me because o…

  17.09.2020

• LIGHT4HEALTH International Project Second Summer School to Commence in October

  …and justify the chosen lighting techniques.  Weeks four and five (modules 4 and 5) are devoted to working on the final lighting design project. Students will put their knowledge and skills to practice, master additional lighting design tools, and compare the results of field studies to simulated case studies. The fifth week will end with  presentations of final li…

  16.09.2020

• Blended Learning: Best of Online and Offline

  …ors or entrepreneurs. It should be noted that distance learning tools (recorded lectures, files, etc.) can’t replace a teacher or a mentor – they remain the carrier of knowledge and experience. If that paradigm shifts, that might result in issues with discipline and involvement among students. In her report Aleksandra Shparberg, a tutor at ITMO’s Foreign Langua…

  14.09.2020

• International Opportunities for ITMO Students in 2020

  …f the English language course as part of their studies at ITMO University. academic exchange participants are selected on a competitive basis: academic performance, knowledge of foreign languages, participation in conferences and competitions, as well as active participation in the university’s life (for example, membership in student clubs, volunteering at eve…

  14.09.2020