…ral candidates. Furthermore, the significance of diverstity, equality and inclusivness (DEI) promotion in the academic world was discussed….

Until 31st January, newly enrolled students and doctoral candidates at the University of Warsaw can apply for the “Scholarship to Start” – for Olympians, athletes, or doctoral candidates. The “Scholarship to Start” programme is organised for the second time within the Rector’s Scholarship Fund. Persons who have started their education in the 2023/2024 academic year in first-, second-, or full-cycle programmes and at doctoral schools can apply for…

…mic Schools in Poland and Chairman of the Conference of Rectors of Warsaw Universities. He was awarded the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. The funeral of Prof. Piotr Węgleński took place on 1st February.   On 1st February at 11.00 am a solemn session in the Senate Hall of the Kazimierzowski Palace was held in memory of Prof. Piotr Węgleński. At 13.00 am, a mass took place at the Church of St. Joseph of the Visitationists (Krak…

…ampaign, members of the university community prepared a record-breaking number of fifty-one auctions. The auctioned items included: a university tie and cufflinks from Prof. Alojzy Z. Nowak, Rector of the University of Warsaw, a walk in the greenhouses of the University of Warsaw Botanic Garden and plant seedlings from the Garden’s collection (including a seedling of the titan arum), a set of gadgets from the University of Warsaw PhD Students’ Uni…

…(BUW) in 2008 and the library of the Faculty of Psychology in February 2023. She is an advocate of open science and open access publishing.   She is an enthusiast of languages – Polish as well as foreign – besides Russian and English, she speaks German, Czech and Portuguese. She is also interested in all topics that relate to water: watercraft, river history, aquatic fauna and flora, and more recently ecohydrology.   Barbara Chmielewska is the gue…

…men. They usually do this by hiding in shells left behind by dead crustaceans. One such hiding place is not enough for a lifetime because of the crab’s development, but also because of intra-species competition,” Prof. Marta Szulkin says.   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 ‘artificia…

…the University of Warsaw developed a new, highly efficient technique that makes quantum information transmission dozens of times faster. In Old Dongola the team of researchers led by Prof. Artur Obłuski from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology (PCMA) discovered unique wall paintings of saints and King David, one of the last rulers of Christian Makuria. The archaeologists from the PCMA were also involved in the discovery of the mediaeval…

…Merry Christmas to the entire academic community of the University of Warsaw and its Friends. We wish you joyful moments in good health, satisfaction with your endeavours, and happy New Year! Video with Christmas wishes from the UW Rector and the Academic Community…

…nderstand what is hard and what is easy in the quantum world. We are also curious to know what the laws of physics might look like inside black holes,” Prof. Paweł Caputa says. “To be exact, the project aims to develop precise measures of the complexity of states and operators in QFTs and apply them in the holographic correspondence and quantum gravity models,” the researcher explains. The video is available at the University’s YouTube channel. In…

…oined the Erasmus programme on 1st March 1998, but already in February 1997 the Senate of the UW decided to begin preparations for participation in the programme.   The first twenty-three students came to the University in the 1998/1999 academic year; 176 students and thirty-seven members of academic staff left the UW. The project budget the university received for organising the exchange was EUR442,000.   Currently, the UW cooperates with around…