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Increase in plant species richness on mountain summits accelerates with global warming
04-04-2018…untain summits. Globally accelerating trends in societal development and human environmental impacts since the mid-20th century are known as the Great Acceleration and have been discussed as a key indicator of the beginning of the Anthropocene. The international research team, that consists of researchers from 11 European countries, collected data regarding the plant species on 302 mountain summits across Europe, spanning 145 years of observatio…
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Sergei Kovalyov with an honorary degree of UW
15-03-2018…in politics. He served as the chairman of the President’s Human Rights Commission and Human Rights Commissioner for the Russian parliament, the State Duma. In 1993, Dr. Kovalyov was elected to the State Duma. Dr. Sergei Kovalyov has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize three times. In 2004, he was awarded the Victor Gollancz Prize by the Society for Threatened Peoples, for documenting Russian crimes in Chechnya. In 2009, he was awarded the…
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Privacy in a social network
30-01-2018…communities in a social network” is an article published in the Nature Human Behaviour magazine. Dr. Tomasz Michalak from the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics of the University of Warsaw is among its authors. Social media has fuelled enormous interest in developing evermore sophisticated tools to analyse our personal connections, with a particular emphasis on detecting communities and identifying key individuals in a social netw…
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A new mechanism of protein synthesis regulation
22-01-2018…by defective mitochondria also exists in mammalian, and specifically human, cells. In sum, the scientists discovered a new exciting regulation of protein synthesis that involves a redox switch at the ribosomes. The finding that mitochondria can signal their current state via mitochondrial-derived ROS and can thereby adjust directly global cytosolic protein synthesis provides important implication in understanding consequences of mitochondrial an…
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UW in 2018
11-01-2018…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…
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Assist. Prof. Joanna Sułkowska among EMBO Young Investigators
25-10-2017…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…
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Center for Research and Practice in Cultural Continuity
18-10-2017…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…
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Three honorary degrees
23-06-2017…“Europa und sein Osten. Geschichtskulturelle 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 Educat…
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A brand new rover on the Red Planet
30-05-2017…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…
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European Research Council Grants
05-05-2017…nt, 2 mln euro, project: Using human rights to change abortion law: involvement patterns and argumentative architectures in the global figuration of human rights Assoc. Prof. Piotr Garbacz, Faculty of Chemistry 2021 – Starting Grant, 1.5 mln euro, project: Chirality-sensitive Nuclear Magnetoelectric Resonance (NMER) Prof. Michał Tomza, Faculty of Physics 2021 – Starting Grant, nearly 1.5 mln euro, project: Ultracold polyatomic molecules for contro…
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