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Ambassador Mark F. Brzezinski lecturing at UW
21-02-2024…our societies,” Robert Grey, the UW Chancellor, said. Mark F. Brzezinski was born in the USA in 1965 and grew up in Washington DC. He is a lawyer by profession. He served at the National Security Council under President Bill Clinton from 1999 to 2001. He was a foreign policy advisor to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. From 2011 to 2015, he served as a US ambassador to Sweden. He first came to Warsaw on a Fulbright scholarship in 1991 to co…
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Flexible links
15-02-2024…ct original machines, new catalysts, as well as receptors, i.e. compounds that – thanks to the ability of the “host” molecule to match the geometrical requirements of the “guest” – will be able to bind smaller molecules within their interiors. Publications Original article: Aleksandra Sarwa, Agata Białońska, Michał Sobieraj, Juan Pablo Martínez, Bartosz Trzaskowski, Bartosz Szyszko, “Iminopyrrole-Based Self-Assembly: A Route to Intrinsically Flexi…
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Internationalisation Stars from UW
12-02-2024…dent activities, e.g. the UNICOMM project (University Community Active Participation Project) – he represented the UW at the online conference entitled “Student Engagement in Focus” regarding student participation in non-academic activities, and was an expert in student activity engagement at the “Masterclass on Community Building”. Last December, he co-organised the “4EU+ for Ukraine” conference at the UW. Through my engagement in various initiat…
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Doctoral candidate from UW at NASA
05-02-2024…umerical model describing the state of the lower troposphere, i.e. the planetary boundary layer investigating the effects that are associated with the presence of pollutants such as particulate matter. “The model could be used not only to study Earth, which has been facing urban air quality problems for years, but also other planets with dusty atmospheres, such as Mars,” the scientist explains, adding, “The more space missions we send to other p…
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Ways to support doctoral candidates at UW
26-01-2024…al aid, e.g. for the birth of a child), loans (for residents of the Faculty Residence Hall), as well as subsidies for their own and their children’s holidays (holidays at UW centres, summer camps, stays at health resorts). Another type of support available to doctoral candidates is the possibility of living in the Faculty Residence Hall or in one of the student halls of residence. Children of doctoral candidates can be admitted to the “Universit…
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Mediaeval fabrics from Dongola
24-01-2024…ents were therefore simpler, often one-piece. Collaboration between chemists and archaeologists Chromatographic analyses were used in the research, which allowed to determine the original colours of the materials altered by environmental factors, such as light or moisture. The origin of the dyes was both plant and animal. “By seeing the fabric, I can determine its colour but I do not know what exactly it was dyed with. Researchers from the Fac…
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One of the most interesting discoveries
03-01-2024…e for Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Warsaw, and Prof. Steven E. Sidebotham from the University of Delaware. In April 2023, the researchers reported on a valuable find in the city. The team of Dr Rodney Asta from the University of Heidelberg discovered a Buddha statue in the courtyard of the temple of Isis. “The Buddha statue is the first evidence of the transfer of objects along the route from east to west, as well as the first…
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Quantum complexity
19-12-2023…s part of the Consolidator Grant, given by the European Research Council. Prof. Paweł Caputa’s project “Quantum Complexity from Quantum Field Theories to Quantum Gravity” was funded to the amount of over €1.8 mln. Quantum Field Theories (QFTs) are the best models to describe nature, from new phases of matter to black holes. Still, to simulate them efficiently, one needs to know the best ways to create interesting quantum states from the basic bu…
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Planetary health survey
15-12-2023…biodiversity. The Polish part of the research is led by Prof. Aneta Afelt from the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modeling (ICM), the University of Warsaw, in collaboration with an IT team led by Łukasz Dumiszewski. Cooperation with local communities The MOSAIC project involves working with local communities in low- and middle-income countries living in transboundary zones. “They struggle with the negative effects…
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UW ranked the best Polish university in sustainability
13-12-2023…social and environmental challenges, as well as their ESG activities, i.e. sustainability principles in the following categories: environment, society and corporate governance. One of the criteria was the universities’ academic achievements related to the UN’s sustainable development goals. The QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2024 is a single overall ranking, comprising the results of the assessment in three analysed areas: social…
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