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• ITMO PhD Student Designs Sustainable Development Project for the Pskov Region

  The project for sustainable development of the area near the Pskov State Regional Power Station was initiated by Sergey Gastev, a PhD student at the Faculty of Energy and Ecotechnology, with support from the administration of Pskov Oblast. Thanks to this project, the station that was supposed to be closed will be able to start functioning again. ITMO.NEWS contacted the project’s author and found out why he decided to save the power station and how his expertise in engineering helped find investors.

  18.03.2021

• ITMO at International Agricultural Exhibition AGRORUS

  The staff of ITMO University’s International Research Institute of Bioengineering have recently been awarded the gold medal for the best development at the AGRORUS International Agricultural Exhibition and Trade Fair. They received their award for a new agricultural product which allows for increasing yields and enhancing plants’ resistance to diseases. Read on to learn more about this and other projects conducted at the Institute.

  23.07.2019

• Research on Fairy Circles in Africa Will Benefit Agriculture

  In deserts of Namibia, there are totally lifeless patches of land where nothing grows. Clearly seen among the surrounding grass and bush, they are called "fairy circles" or "footprints of god". Scientists have several theories of how they came to be, yet all of them are yet to be proved. One theory is that these circles appear because of specific compounds that are released by the euphorbia plant. ITMO's Master's students who work under the guidance of research officers of the laboratory of Technical Microbiology of the All-Russian Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology believe this theory to be correct. According to them, research on fairy circles can help create new ecologic bio-herbicides.

  23.03.2017