…the phonic Polish language, because it varies from it when it comes to vocabulary and grammar. It was developed around 200 years ago, when the first school for Deaf people was opened in Warsaw.   Besides the University of Warsaw, there is no organised teaching of Polish Sign Language on the academic level in Poland. The Polish Sign Language Philology is a study programme opened at the UW’s Faculty of Polish Studies in October 2019. There is also…

…Warsaw’s offer includes the studies in the area of Exact and Natural Sciences, Social Science and the Humanities, as well as interdisciplinary programmes, and the programmes with English as the language of instruction. In the 2023/2024 academic year, the medical studies were introduced in the educational offer of the UW.   There are around 300 various study programmes at the UW. The full list of the studies that are available in the 2023/2024 aca…

…ack hole more precisely than ever before.   The picture presents Gaia’s black holes at their positions in the sky. These black holes are also the closest ones to Earth that we know of. The sky map in the background shows Gaia’s sky in colours and is not a picture. It is a visualisation where individual stars with their colours as observed by Gaia are plotted one by one. Credits: ESA/Gaia/DPAC. License: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO With a mass of thirty times…

…will delve into the understanding of this region using representations of animals typical to Eastern Europe, such as an aurochs, a wisent, an elk, and a saiga antelope, whose Latin name saiga serves as the acronym of the project.   “These animals were known to scholars of the 16th-18th centuries mainly through the accounts of ancient and mediaeval authors and up-to-date reports from local informants, who were not always reliable. The images they…

…fferings and campus facilities. On 20th April, on the UW Main Campus representatives of faculties were on hand to answer questions about and provide insights into University life. Over sixty information stands provided a chance for individuals interested in pursuing higher education to discover the diverse range of study programmes offered by the University of Warsaw. Faculty members, academic advisors, and current students and doctoral candidates…

Dynamic technological changes in the context of contemporary global challenges were the focus of an international event held at the University of Warsaw in March. The conference “Human Tech Transition: Crises in Mediatized Politics, Society & Economy” was attended by more than 130 scientists from almost thirty countries. From 14th to 15th March at the University of Warsaw, scientists from around the world discussed the impact of technology on pol…

…flexible links and molecular knots. The results of the collaboration between researchers from the University of Warsaw and the University of Wrocław were published in “Angewandte Chemie”. “Although knots and links are mainly of interest in mathematical topology, they also fascinate chemists, who have created many molecules with non-trivial topology,” Prof Bartosz Trzaskowski from the UW’s Centre of New Technologies (CeNT) said. A team of research…

…eological work at Gonio-Apsaros led by Prof. Radosław Karasiewicz-Szczypiorski, including the discovery of a wine pressing plant, was also described on the UW’s website: https://www.uw.edu.pl/odkrycia-w-gruzinskim-gonio/….

…t Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona. Prof. Toruńczyk’s publications have been presented at prestigious conferences on theoretical computer science….

…pean University”. This was the motto of this year’s meeting of representatives of the eight member universities of the 4EU+ Alliance. The event, organised at the University of Milan, was attended by around thirty people from the UW. The 4EU+ Alliance is one of the UW’s strategic initiatives. It is formed by European research universities: University of Warsaw, Charles University in Prague, Heidelberg University, University of Paris-Panthéon-Assas,…