Hundreds of Moscow students packed out a lecture theater this week to hear what most of them already believe: Pharma’s Cool. The lecture hall at Moscow’s Sechenov University of Medicine. Photo: sk.ru The three-week lecture series targeting...
ALMATY, Kazakhstan - The Kazakh stage of the Startup Tour concluded on Friday with several innovations winning a place at the Startup Village in June and, perhaps more significantly, the foundations put in place for of a new era of high-tech cooperation between...
In building the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, it would be an “extraordinary waste of energy” to simply create another MIT, the president of the fledgling Russian innovations university, Ed Crawley, has said in televised remarks....
Researchers at Skoltech Center for Advanced Structures, Processes and Engineered Materials (ASPEM) claim they may have produced the strongest 3D printed composite material in the world. Antonov holding up the composite material. Photo: skoltech.ru ...
The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology is publishing a database of its students’ startup businesses online to promote transparency and boost exposure. The Skoltech Projects website. Photo: projects.skoltech.ru The “Skoltech...
Sergei Krikalev, the man who has spent the most time in space at 803 days, has joined the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology as a professor of practice. Krikalev giving a talk at Skoltech as a guest in September. Photo: sk.ru Krikalev...
The most creative period in the academic year of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology kicked off Tuesday as students ditched their textbooks to learn everything from snowboarding to stock trading. The independent studies period (ISP) window is...
A prominent US diplomat said Monday that Skolkovo’s partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is more important now than ever. In opening remarks at the US-Russia Research Symposium in the Russian capital, Jeffrey Sexton, minister...
The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) was recently founded in cooperation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Almost half of first year students are already involved in startups. Edward Crawley, President of Skoltech...
Getting a faculty job with the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology is simple, provost Raj Rajagopalan, tells sk.ru in an interview. Prove you have the innovative qualities required by leaving your comfort zone and moving to Russia to be part of something...
As first bell rings out for the final year of the inaugural intake of students at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, provost Raj Rajagopalan tells sk.ru that in some ways they have already passed with flying colors. Skoltech, a university...