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Educational activities
04-03-2022…ctoral researchers. They will be exempted from the tuition fee. Additionally, they can apply for the UW accommodation in the students residence halls. The participants can also take part in classes, Polish language courses, and receive ECTS credits. The programme is financed by the Excellence Initiative – Research University. Any queries about the programme should be directed to the e-mail address: studyvisits.ukraine@adm.uw.edu.pl. More informati…
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Olga Tokarczuk with the title of doctor honoris causa of the University of Warsaw
28-02-2022…eople, the ones who have been brutally attacked by the Moscow regime. Truly, having no words to utter but ‘barbarism’, I wish to express my – our – solidarity, support and sympathy. For me, the attack on Ukraine, a free and sovereign country, is the attack on Europe,” started her speech Olga Tokarczuk. On 23rd February she was honoured with the title of doctor honoris causa of the University of Warsaw. On 16th December 2020, the Senate of the Univ…
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UW Rector’s letter about an education mode in the summer semester 2021/2022
16-02-2022…y, as the winter holidays are coming to an end, I would like to officially declare that an onsite mode of teaching is the major form of courses at the University of Warsaw. Only selected classes can be conducted in a remote mode. Thus, principles of the education mode remain the same compared to the winter semester. I would like to emphasize that the safety of our academic community as well as the highest possible level of education are the pr…
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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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How many tree species inhabit the Earth?
02-02-2022…sms, the more precise estimation of the species number. “Approximately 2 mln species have been described so far. However, it is expected there are as many as ten times more at least, reaching up to 20 mln species we have not identified yet. Some scientists consider the number of 100 mln species to be discovered and described. This number includes about 400,000 vascular plants. In 2020, according to scientists from the Royal Kew Botanic Gardens, UK…
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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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Is there life on extrasolar planets?
11-01-2022…use variable stars called LSP. We think that these stars are actually binary systems in which a bright giant star is orbited by a mysterious object submerged in a dusty cloud. We suspect that this object is a former planet that accreted some matter lost by the star in the form of the stellar wind during last stages of its evolution,” as Dr Skowron explained. LSP stars in the OGLE project Dr Dorota Skowron from the UW Astronomical Observatory h…
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