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Uranus’s Twin
17-10-2014…planet is 2/3 as massive as our Sun, while the other star is 1/6 as massive. The planet is four times more massive than Uranus, but orbits its star almost at the same distance as Uranus orbits the Sun. Astronomers discovered this extrasolar planetary system thanks to a phenomenon called gravitational microlensing. This happens when the gravitational force of the star bends the light from a far away object and magnifies it like a lens. The OGLE…
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Inauguration of the academic year
02-10-2014…r present in the public debate: that we are educating versatile persons, and not – as Florian Znaniecki would put it – a superficially educated “audience”. The University is not a production site, and the goal of academic learning may not be just preparation to find a job according to the motto: “the sooner – the better”. A wise human being will be a good employee, not the other way round. We are to educate people who will change the world, and no…
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Academic exchange
16-06-2014…projects and conferences, and general staff participate in training. Meanwhile, 3,558 students and doctoral candidates from abroad studied at the UW. Our University is the most frequently chosen by international students out of all Polish universities. The number of undergraduates, postgraduates and scholarship holders under various international exchange programmes keeps growing. Academic exchange In 2022, the University’s community included ov…
https://en.uw.edu.pl/cooperation/academic-exchange/