…king 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’ Union, participation in the UW Open University courses, the opportunit…

…and the essay Co to jest islam? Książka dla dzieci i dorosłych. (Islam Explained).   “Tahar ben Jelloun is an outstanding author. He brings together worlds seemingly torn apart. He comes from Morocco and lives in France; he is a Muslim who brings a ‘human’ image of Islam to the West,” Dr Marta Widy-Behiesse says. The video is available on the university’s YouTube channel. An oriental element “Tahar ben Jelloun is a poet, a writer, and a scholar,…

…go, 2014, LC Classification: PR8771 .J37 2014; Ekphrasis in the poetry of Derek Mahon, Piotrków Trybunalski: Naukowe Wydawnictwo Piotrkowskie przy Filii Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego, 2013, LC Classification: PR6063.A34 Z65 2013….

…Prof. Marcin Zych as a tour guide, or attending the Polish National Ballet performance with Prof. Gabriela Grotkowska, the Dean of the Faculty of Economic Sciences. The Faculty of History also started an online donation platform https://eskarbonka.wosp.org.pl.   Bidding began with the closing date 30th January. The one and only auction “Prowadzenie programu Alternator w Radiu Kampus” (“Hosting the ‘Alternator’ programme on the Kampus Radio”) is e…

…the Faculty website >> .   The online course “Ukraine in International Relations” for international students The UW Centre for Europe launched a 20-hour Erasmus course “Ukraine in International Relations”. The course is available for international students from the University of Warsaw. The online meeting will be conducted by Dr Oksana Krayevska, a lecturer at the Faculty of International Relations, Ivan Franko University of Lviv, and an associate…

…is being organised by the UW Faculty of Political Science and International Studies together with the HumanDoc Foundation. The collection point is open seven days a week from 8.00 to 20.00 in the Faculty building at 67 Nowy Świat, level -1. Only the listed items are accepted. The list in the English language is updated on the Faculty website >>   Emergency supplies for the Ukrainian are being collected by the UW Student Council together with the…

…Physics aimed at providing medical staff in Poland with needed personal protective equipment, namely face shields. It was a response to those doctors and medical professionals who have direct contact with people infected by the novel coronavirus. Volunteers in Makerspace at UW decided to support medical institutions in the country when it was most needed.   “The reason why we began our initiative was a real need to equip medical staff with necess…

…books with shorter prose works. In 2018, she won the Man Booker International prize for her novel “Flights” (Bieguni). This book also won the Nike Award, Poland’s top literary prize, in 2008. In 2015, Olga Tokarczuk received another Nike Award for the impressive historical novel “The Books of Jacob” (Księgi Jakubowe).   More information is available at www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2018   Besides the Nobel Prize awarded to Olga Tokarczuk, t…

…problem of finding the shortest (cheapest) subnetwork connecting selected nodes in a large computer network.   Dr Marcin graduated Double Degree Program in Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Warsaw. In 2007, he won the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in Tokyo. Scientist was a scholarship holder of such programmes like Nowoczesny Uniwersytet or Doktoraty dla Mazowsza. Researcher worked at the University of Warwic…

…Mathematics at the University of Warsaw. In 2007, he won the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in Tokyo – together with Dr. Marek Cygan who received ERC Starting Grant last year. Both scientists work at the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics at the University of Warsaw. Marcin Pilipczuk was a scholarship holder of programmes, such as Nowoczesny Uniwersytet or Doktoraty dla Mazowsza. Computer scientist worked at the Un…