…alev will receive a doctor honoris causa degree Dr. Sergei Kovalev is a Russian biophysicist, human rights activist and politician. He is associated with the Moscow State University. Dr. Kovalev is an author of more than 60 scientific publications. In 1970s. he was sentenced to seven years in labour camps and three years of internal exile due to his activities against the authorities of USSR. In 2018, Dr. Kovalev will be awarded with the UW honora…

…unknotted in eucariota. Our goal is to use knotted proteins to design selective inhibitor new antibacterial drugs. To do this, we work at the interface of physics, mathematics, biology and chemistry – explains Assistant Professor Joanna Sułkowska.   At the beginning of this year, Assistant Professor Joanna Sułkowska has received the International Rising Talent Grant (L’Oréal-UNESCO). Before, she won, among others, Sonata BIS grant (National Scienc…

…ute to the research. – What we have been trying to do is to construct bridges between academy, ethnic/linguistic minorities and local communities, and non-academic organizations and institutions, including local activists – explains Dr. Justyna Olko. – We work with some of the linguistic minorities in Poland, including speakers of Wymysiöeryś, Lemko, Kashubian. We work with the representatives of the Isle of Man and Guernsey, speakers of Basque (E…

…lturelle Herausforderungen”, “Der Warschauer Aufstand 1944”, (English translation: The Warsaw Uprising 1944) are just a few examples of the most important publications of Prof. Borodziej.   The UW historian received many awards, including Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse des Verdienstordens der Bundespreublik Deutschland (2002), Herder Preis (2006), Carl von Ossietzky Preis (2010), Medal of Comission of National Education (2012), Order of Rebirth of Polan…

…s the most prestigious robotics competition for students. Student teams design and build the next generation of Mars rovers that will one day work alongside astronauts exploring the Red Planet.   36 teams from 7 countries will compete at the Mars Desert Research Station during the University Rover Challenge.The University of Warsaw Rover Team and four other teams from Poland will also participate in that competition. Their mars rovers will have to…

…thematics, Informatics and Mechanics 2023 – Consolidator Grant, 1.94 mln euro, project: Limits of structural tractability Prof. Paweł Caputa, Faculty of Physics 2023 – Consolidator Grant, over 1.8 mln euro, project: Quantum complexity from quantum field theories to quantum gravity Prof. Magdalena Wojcieszak, Centre of Migration Research 2023 – Consolidator Grant, almost 2 mln euro, project: Incentivizing citizen exposure to quality news online: fr…

…s and Connectivity. The capital of Poland attracted 392 FDI projects between 2006 and 2015. More information is available in the text “Polish Cities of the Future 2017/18”.   In the article “The 19 most sociable and friendly cities in the world” published by Business Insider, Warsaw took the 15th place among most sociable and friendly cities in the world. Study analysed the social behaviour and attitudes of over 12 000 residents from 39 major citi…

…, the director of the PCMA Research Centre in Cairo, focused on the ruins of a Medieval monastery in el-Ghazali, which functioned between the 8th and the 13th century. A grant from the Qatar–Sudan Archaeological Project allowed for the extension of the excavations into the cemetery. Within a few months of fieldwork over 80 graves were investigated.   An interesting part of these investigations were anthropological analyses of human remains from th…

…of the UW co-organizes an international conference entitled “Research on Human Reminds from Polish Excavations in Africa and the Near East”. It will be held on 9th December.   The Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology and the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw cooperated together in order to organize a conference regarding physical anthropology.   In the event both Polish and foreign scholars will participate. The special lecture…

On 1st September rector’s team and authorities of the university’s faculties, institutes and other units began new term. From the beginning of September Prof. Marcin Pałys, the UW Rector, officially started his second term in office. He was elected by the Electoral College on 20th April.   Rector’s team 2016-2020: Anna Giza-Poleszczuk – Vice-Rector for Development, Jolanta Choińska-Mika – Vice-Rector for Student Affairs and Quality of Teaching, M…