…zania,” says Karen Nyakato Kyabega, the best foreign student in Poland. The twelfth edition of the INTERSTUDENT competition has been won by Karen Nyakato Kyabega, BA student from the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw.   The mission of the INTERSTUDENT competition is to select, reward and promote the best foreign students studying in Poland at Bachelor, Master and PhD levels. The competition seeks t…

…ical and Chemical Research Centre, University of Warsaw. As an EMBO Installation Grantee, Dr Bandyra will research the role of PNPase in human mitochondria. More than 1,800 leading life scientists are members of the international European Molecular Biology Organisation. The major goals of the organization are to support talented researchers at all stages of their careers, stimulate the exchange of scientific information, and help build a…

…an see with our eyes are about 6th magnitude).   This is still not dim enough to meet standards outlined by the Satellite Constellations 1 (SATCON1) workshop in 2020, a gathering sponsored by the NOIRLab (National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory) and the AAS (American Astronomical Society) to bring together astronomers, policy makers, and other experts to discuss the impact of large satellite constellations on astronomy and…

…tially thought. Archaeologists also documented the ruins of a Late Islamic-period village standing on top of earlier remains. “This abundance of settlement traces proves that this valley was an important spot in Oman’s prehistory” said Prof. Bieliński.   Next year, the team will continue work in the Qumayrah Valley, both in Ayn Bani Saidah and in Bilt, on the other end of the valley where further Umm an-Nar remains are located. The work is c…

…Magellanic Clouds.   Researcher profile Dorota Skowron, PhD, is a specialist in astrophysics. She works at the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw. She is a member of the International Astronomical Union. In her research she concentrates on the Milky Way galaxy, stellar populations, variable stars and exoplanets. She has presented numerous research papers that are published in ”Nature” and ”Nature Astronomy”. In 2019, with…

…mza, PhD, from the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, is a theoretical physicist and chemist. He specialises in quantum physics of matter and light-matter interactions. He was awarded the National Science Centre Award 2020 for this theoretical description of interactions between ultracold atoms, ions and molecules. He uses theoretical methods, and also performs computer simulations. In his work, he cooperates with experimental groups from…

…s between specific workshops, and how they possibly preserved specific traditions or alongside which trade routes disseminated them”.   The obtained data, i.e. workshops, names of their owners, names of artisans, ‘house styles’, and model textbooks used by one or more workshops, will be categorised in a high-granularity Digital Atlas of Workshops in Epigraphy (DAWE). The Atlas will be searchable by way of a number of ‘tags’ revealing the age…

…unding of € 619 mln. The winners represent research organisations from 22 countries.   Five out of 14 applications submitted from the University of Warsaw as their host institution were successfully assessed by international peer reviewers. Three projects from the University of Warsaw have been awarded ERC Starting Grants.   Roman Imperial epigraphic traditions Dr Paweł Nowakowski from the UW Faculty of History is the principal in…

…gions. In January, the University of Warsaw hit the 123rd position among 172 other universities which were assessed for their performance in four areas: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The ranking included only two Central European universities: University of Warsaw (123 rank position) and Charles University in Prague (79 rank position).   In March, QS Quacquarelli Symonds, global higher education analysts,…

…– the heart of the kingdom of Alwa. The spatial organization of medieval capital city on the Blue Nile” is carried out by a scientific consortium of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw (consortium leader) and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (consortium partner). The project is funded by a National Science Centre grant number UMO-2018/29/B/HS3/02533.   The pro…