…cial media using the following tags and hashtags: Instagram: @ucw_uw, Facebook: @UCWUW, #przepisnikstudenckiuw #studentcookbookuw #uniwersyteckiecentrumwolontariatu #vcuw.   Sharing the publication with the University of Warsaw community is not the end of the project. The Volunteer Centre of UW is planning other attractions related with cooking. More information will be available on the VC UW social media.   More information about the “Student Coo…

Using the eROSITA X-ray facility, installed onboard the Spektr-RG satellite, a team of international scientists has found two previously quiescent galaxies that now show quasi-periodic eruptions. The nuclei of these galaxies light up in X-rays every few hours, reaching peak luminosities comparable to that of an entire galaxy. The research results have already been published in the journal “Nature”. Dr. Mariusz Gromadzki from the Astronomical Obse…

…May, 23:59. How to take part in the Europeanness Photo Contest on Instagram: Follow our 4EU+ account on Instagram (@4euplus_alliance). Make sure your Instagram account is a public profile. If you do not want to use your private Instagram account, you can create a separate account just for the sake of the contest. Post a picture addressing the theme of Europeanness/being European on Instagram. Photos depicting your art: graphic, illustration, drawi…

…USOS website, the USOS Mobile app and the mObywatel app.   Reinstall To reinstall a student electronic ID card on a new device, go to “mLegitymacja” on the USOS website or to the USOS Mobile app and select “Revoke mLegitymacja”. This feature is also useful if the activation code was ordered some time ago and the “mObywatel” application indicates an error with the text: “mLegitymacja does not exist”.   There is no need to visit the university in pe…

…he Apamea mosaic is made of a wooden wheel positioned vertically and installed on a very solid pyramidal stone structure. The hydraulic wheel drew water from the Orontes River and supplied it to small Roman baths with swimming pools and a slide, visible from both the outside and the inside; the water slide and the swimming pool were sorts of attraction for boys playing together – says Prof. Olszewski. The water wheels were operated by the river cu…

…stability and instability in multilingualism, identifying their key factors and explaining their mechanisms,” says Professor Justyna Olko.   The project will provide diagnoses and predictions with great potential for improving existing language policies and educational strategies oriented toward the preservation of linguistic-cultural diversity and sustainable multilingualism. Professor Justyna Olko – an ERC Consolidator Grant laureate (2020). Wa…

…tek will encourage faculties to split the tuition fees into instalments and not to charge interest for late payments, as well as to make individual decisions on applications for tuition reductions. Last semester saw each case analysed individually.   Student card / Student status When asked about the issue of student cards and the acquisition of student status, Prof. Sławomir Żółtek stressed that student cards should be issued as soon as possible….

…oduction environment with the university system, it is possible to install “mLegitymacja” on a mobile device. Temporarily it will be supported only by the Android operating system.   Ordering, renewing or cancelling a mobile student card is possible via the Mobile USOS application. A special “mLegitymacja” module was created in it. In addition to general information about the “mObywatel” application and the “mLegitymacja” itself, there is also an…

…upernova explosions and other stellar outbursts.   In this particular instance, follow-up observations performed with more than 50 telescopes worldwide revealed that the source – since then named Gaia16aye after Ayers Rock, the famous landmark in Australia – was behaving in a rather strange way.   “We saw the star getting brighter and brighter and then, within one day, its brightness suddenly dropped,” says Lukasz Wyrzykowski from the Astronomical…

…rted 112 group leaders. This year’s grantees represent six nationalities. The next application deadline for EMBO Installation Grants is 15th April 2020.   View the full list of Installation Grantees 2019 >>…