…ool since 2021. Previously – from 2007 to 2016 – he was the Rector’s Deputy for Quality of Education.   Four lectures “We are dealing with a book that consists of merely four chapters, but its slim volume is counterbalanced by the great intellectual weight of Prof. Carl Lotus Becker’s lectures” – this is how Prof. Paweł Stępień described the book The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers.   The work is almost a hundred years old. In…

…of webinars regarding the European education. On 21st February, the first online meeting on the European degree, students’ involvement and the role of European university alliances took place. The Network of Universities from the Capitals of Europe (UNICA) is a network of 53 universities from all over Europe. It is a forum where university authorities and employees across Europe can share their experiences.   Also, the UW is one of the eight rese…

…z Szyszko, “Iminopyrrole-Based Self-Assembly: A Route to Intrinsically Flexible Molecular Links and Knots”, Angewandte Chemie International Edition: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202316489   The research and the article by the UW and UWr researchers have been recognised by the international scientific community. The so-called “highlight”, a discussion of the original work, was published in Nature Synthesis.   Highlight: Stephen D.P. Fielden, “Flexi…

…t Naghiyev willingly participates in numerous student 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…

…nder Leszczyński from the office of the Vice-Rector for Students and Quality of Teaching.   “As one of Europe’s leading research and teaching centres, the University of Warsaw met with great interest. Prospective candidates were keen to find out about the opportunities to study in both English-language and Polish-language programmes. The most popular fields of study were computer science, management and medicine,” Prof. Ewa Krogulec, the UW Vice-R…

…  “The job is a dream that came true completely unexpectedly,” he admitted. “The basic application requirement for an internship at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is to find a mentor from among the scientists working there. My supervisor, Prof. Krzysztof Markowicz, and I are doing joint research with Dr Marcin Witek, who works at the JPL. The idea came up that I should visit Marcin in California. This is how I received the invitation, which made t…

…ave a connection to research.   Such a model not only improves the quality of research, but also develops project management skills, encourages us to become competitive, and allows us to change the approach to participating in competitions. These competences are of great importance for the development of researchers’ careers and they will also, perhaps especially, be useful when IDUB comes to an end at some point. With a one-day training about the…

…ested in various aspects of Open Science are invited to take part in the online meetings. The workshop series will include eleven meetings in the form of video conferences. The meetings will cover various aspects of Open Science, such as: research integrity, publishing and searching papers in open access, FAIR data management or open research software.   The workshops will be conducted in English by experts from the 4EU+ Alliance member universiti…

…Poppo by her friends, inherits from her grandmother not only the shop but also her new profession. In accordance with a long-standing family tradition, she is in charge of writing custom letters.   It is not easy to write the perfect letter, and it is even more difficult to do so on someone else’s behalf. Some of the letters written by Hatoko are clichéd and banal. These include thank-you notes, congratulations and condolences. However, among the…

…The scientists analysed photos of hermit crabs from the Coenobitidae family published on social media and other online platforms.   “In the photographs, we discovered a total of 386 individuals using ‘artificial shells’ – mainly plastic caps, but also made from broken necks of glass bottles or metal ends of light bulbs. According to our calculations, ten out of sixteen species of land hermit crabs in the world use this type of shelter. This unusu…