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A new UW Chancellor
02-02-2022…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 the Undersecretary of State for Economic Diplomacy, the Americas, Asia and Eastern Policy at the Ministry of Foreign…
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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…rsaw majoring in molecular biology. She completed her PhD studies at the University of Cambridge. In 2021, she came back to Poland with Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions Widening Fellowship (Horizon 2020) as well as POLS and SONATA grants (NCN and Norway Grants) to investigate her own project using cryo-EM and to help Polish scientists to implement this method in their research. Her research focuses on RNA, its versatility and functionality, as well…
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Astronomers Analyse Impact of Starlink Satellites
18-01-2022…the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw, looks at the impact of satellites on ground-based astronomical research. For a few years an American company SpaceX has been launching an increasing number of internet satellites into orbit around the Earth. The satellite network, also called a constellation, now includes nearly 1,800 members orbiting at altitudes of about 550 kilometres. Astronomers have expressed concerns that these obje…
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Passing year at a glance
31-12-2021…one-of-a-kind competition to fight for the CEA Collegiate Chess Champion title. The UW team was undefeated, yet lost the first place to the University of Chicago in the final match. Other interesting events of 2021 On 10th June, for almost two hours, the effects of a partial solar eclipse could be seen from all over Poland. Such a phenomenon was observed in 2015. Now, anyone interested could observe the effects of the solar eclipse under the…
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Life of conodonts
29-12-2021…the simplest, most primitive forms of conodonts – shaped like simple cones or needles. A glimpse into the fossil record “Conodonts are an extinct species. Yet they were the first of all the vertebrates to start producing skeletons – hard organs permeated with minerals. Skeletons such as bones and teeth give scientists a much easier glimpse into the fossil record than soft tissues such as muscles and skin, so the appearance of first skeletons wa…
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UW Physicists in ”Nature”
16-12-2021…character, it is helpful to dramatically lower the temperature. This allows for phenomena like superfluidity and superconductivity. Ultracold gases of atoms cooled to a fraction of a degree above absolute zero are an example of quantum matter. Under such conditions, the interactions between atoms can be controlled using electromagnetic fields and the phenomenon of Feshbach resonances”, explained Prof. Michał Tomza from the Faculty of Physics at UW…
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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…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 also been established to in…
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Final session of two EIT Food programmes
30-11-2021…//www.eitfood.eu/projects/ris-research-infrastructure-network) in 2021 (pilot implementation) supports scientific organisations that own agri-food research infrastructures. It provides participants with interactive training and dedicated support based on best practices to enhance the commercial use and visibility of their publicly funded research infrastructure. The final session of the GEA and RIN will bring together both training programmes. T…
https://en.uw.edu.pl/final-session-of-two-eit-food-programmes/
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