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On custom letters in “Read with UW”
15-01-2024…how love letters, correspondence concerning the break-up of long-standing friendships or cards from heaven are created. It turns out that everything matters in the Japanese epistolary art: the choice of the right alphabet and writing tool, weight, shade and texture of the paper, as well as the colour and density of the ink. “From the book, we learn that ink lighter than usual should be used to write mourning letters. This is to suggest that t…
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Plastic shells
08-01-2024…in the Anthropocene, „Science of The Total Environment”, 2024, 168959, ISSN 0048-9697, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168959….
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A year in review
28-12-2023…ined as a new member. Green initiatives Through more trees and green spaces, eco-friendly solutions in buildings, community fridges, Platform for Green Dialogue, Rector’s Team for Ecology and Climate Crisis, “Green Day”, dedicated programmes, projects and publications, the University of Warsaw undertakes numerous activities to protect the climate and nature. Below there are the most important initiatives. In April, the UW hosted the fourth Cli…
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Quantum complexity
19-12-2023…chart the complexity frontier of quantum many-body systems, help to understand thermalisation, and shed light on the behaviour of matter near cosmological singularities relevant to our early universe. “This interdisciplinary project brings methods and intuition from information theory and quantum computing to many-body physics and quantum gravity,” Prof. Caputa emphasises. The applied methods will involve new definitions of complexity in quan…
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Polish language course for international employees
18-12-2023Welcome Point is organising Polish language course for international employees. The classes will be conducted online by the teaching team from Polonicum UW, the Centre of Polish Language and Culture for Foreigners. The course will be held from 15th January to 27th March and include thirty hours of classes. The participation is free. The registration for the course takes place via the Kampus Platform. The participants are then required to take p…
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Planetary health survey
15-12-2023…MOSAIC project involves working with local communities in low- and middle-income countries living in transboundary zones. “They struggle with the negative effects of environmental degradation that affect their health and wellbeing. They are also in particular socio-political contexts that increase their level of vulnerability,” Dr Aneta Afelt explains. The researchers assume that local communities are best equipped to interpret and use complex i…
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Call for proposals for 4EU+ shared courses initiative
13-12-2023…to 4EU+ students and doctoral candidates: courses must be conducted in an online or hybrid mode to allow students from other 4EU+ member universities to participate in and complete the course; only courses from the current offer for the UW students can be shared. Proposals for new courses initiated and co-developed within the 4EU+ cooperation will not be accepted; courses can be taught in all languages; classes should be conducted using innovative…
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Sustainable information
13-12-2023…nce in Social Sciences. Her project “Incentivizing Citizen Exposure to Quality News Online: Framework and Tools (NEWSUSE)” has been awarded the ERC Consolidator Grant. Prof. Magdalena Wojcieszak’s project “Incentivizing Citizen Exposure to Quality News Online: Framework and Tools (NEWSUSE)” was funded to the amount of €1.99 mln. “Many people think that disinformation, echo chambers [online groups where a person is only exposed to political infor…
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UW ranked the best Polish university in sustainability
13-12-2023Quacquarelli Symonds published the results of the university ranking focused on the issue of sustainability. The University of Warsaw was ranked first among Polish universities. Nearly 1,400 universities were evaluated in the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2024. The University of Warsaw holds the first place in Poland and 222nd in the world. The list was published for the third time. The ranking assessed universities’ responses to…
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Archaeological discoveries in Georgia
12-12-2023…h was conducted in Apsaros, several kilometres south of Batumi. The Polish-Georgian expedition conducted research at the Apsaros archaeological site for the tenth time. The former Roman fort (called “the Gonio Fortress” since Ottoman times) is located 15 km south of Batumi. One of the discoveries made there by the researchers as part of the archaeological season that ended in November is a thin stone slab with engraved fragments of two letters and…
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