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Mirror images
15-02-2022…of chiral molecules. His project has been awarded nearly €1.5 million. 2021: four grants The 2021 edition of ERC Starting Grants has already distinguished four winners from the University of Warsaw. The other ERC Grant laureates are: Dr. Paweł Nowakowski, the UW Faculty of History, Dr. Dorota Skowron, the Astronomical Observatory at the UW Faculty of Physics, and Assist. Prof. Michał Tomza, the UW Faculty of Physics. In ERC Starting Grant 202…
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A new UW Chancellor
02-02-2022…of the whole University’s administration and annually accounts for their activities to the Rector. Pursuant to the UW Statute, the Chancellor is selected by way of a competition. The competition of November 2021 was entered by two candidates. The competition committee appointed Robert Grey, a former Director for Communication and External Relations and Rector’s Plenipotentiary for Development and Cooperation. Robert Grey occupied the position of…
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4EU+ Alliance online courses
28-01-2022…d doctoral candidates The University of Warsaw offers summer courses in 2021/2022 for 4EU+ students and doctoral candidates. The courses cover three 4EU+ flagships: Flagship 2 “Europe in a changing world: Understanding and engaging societies, economies, cultures and languages”; Flagship 3 “Transforming science and society: Advancing information, computation and communication”; Flagship 4 “Biodiversity and sustainable development”. The course off…
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Dr Katarzyna Bandyra awarded the EMBO Installation Grant
19-01-2022…. I will characterise the full-length enzyme biochemically and structurally, and investigate its capacity to bind substrates in the degradative and non-degradative modes. Subsequently, I will search for PNPase protein partners and RNA substrates using complementary pull-down and fractionation techniques in order to identify potential hPNPase ternary complexes,” explains Dr Bandyra. The study results will illuminate the biological role of PNPase…
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Astronomers Analyse Impact of Starlink Satellites
18-01-2022…2020 AV2, the first asteroid spotted with an orbit that fits entirely within the orbit of Venus. “In 2019, 0.5 percent of twilight images were affected, and now almost 20 percent are affected,” as pointed out by Dr Przemysław Mróz. “In the future, the scientists expect that nearly all of the ZTF images taken during twilight will contain at least one streak, especially after the Starlink constellation reaches 10,000 satellites, a goal SpaceX hop…
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Passing year at a glance
31-12-2021…and Fields Medals, number of highly cited researchers selected by Clarivate Analytics, number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index – Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, and per capita performance of a university. Scientific achievements of UW researchers Prof. Jacek Jemielity from the Centre of New Technologies and Prof. Cezary Cieśliński from the Faculty of Philo…
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Life of conodonts
29-12-2021…g throughout the life of an animal – adding, constantly and periodically, new enamel-like structures upon the youngest surface. This creates a record similar to tree rings, where each episode of the organism’s life is preserved”, as Leonhard described. “Advanced conodonts, which fed as predators, usually have surfaces of wear and damage resulting from gnawing on hard prey, but the most primitive conodonts did not show such traces. Tooth-like struc…
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UW Physicists in ”Nature”
16-12-2021…collisions near the resonance, which effectively allows to cool the ion. The theoretical analysis of Polish scientists allowed to determine previously unknown interaction parameters and to predict the position of resonances, which were not initially detected in the experiment. An open path for new experiments Ultracold ion-atom systems have many potential applications in quantum computing and simulations. The results obtained by physicists open…
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UW Rector’s letter to the academic community
08-12-2021…an economic point of view, the decision on the mode of education in 2021/2022 was taken as early as possible to help students from other parts of the country determine whether they move to Warsaw, rent a flat or a room in the UW residence hall. Therefore, the fact that we are committed to our decision about the regular mode of study shows our profound concern that our community members could make their life decisions while trusting the declaratio…
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The Survey by the University Team for Quality of Education Assurance for University Teachers
01-12-2021…Excellence in Research Award by the European Commission. – Successfully, the University has implemented a number of initiatives and actions to improve the work environment of the researchers, e.g. the Welcome Point Office to support incoming foreign researchers and students, “The Gender Equality Plan for the University of Warsaw” and “The 2020-2023 Equality Activities Plan” as the first university in Poland, a new administrative section has als…
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