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Dr Alicja Mikołajczyk from the Faculty of Chemistry UG and dr hab. Danuta Gutowska-Owsiak, prof. UG from the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG and MUG were among the 50 Forbes Women 2024 (in the Science category) and were nominated for the Woman of the Year title. We encourage you to vote, the poll runs until Wednesday!
For the past five years, the editors of ‘Forbes Women’ magazine have selected 100 women who…
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A publication on the latest tools used in environmental studies of Baltic microorganisms has been published in the renowned journal ‘FEMS. Microbiology Reviews'. Twenty-six scientists from Poland, Finland, Lithuania and Sweden worked on the article, including as many as 11 researchers from the University of Gdańsk.
The prestigious positions of the…
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dr Dominik Bień
Vice-Dean for Student Affairs of the Faculty of Social Sciences, employee of the Centre for Student and Doctoral Activities, editor-in-chief of the journal 'Progress' - dr Dominik Bień combines many functions at the University of Gdańsk. Now he has been honoured with the Prime Minister's Award for 2023 in the…
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Dr Alicja Mikołajczyk, a chemist specialising in the digital design of materials, chemicals and medicines, with an emphasis on their sustainability and safety, was among the six scholarship recipients of this year's edition of the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women and Science programme. The names of the laureates were announced at a gala ceremony held in Warsaw…
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Dr Urszula Zarzecka from the Department of General and Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Biology, UG, has been awarded the European grant ‘FEBS Booster Fund 2024’, funded by the Federation of European Biochemical Societies/FEBS.
The Federation of European Biochemical Societies supports young researchers by awarding one-off grants of €25,000 for a one-…
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The University of Gdańsk has been ranked in the prestigious Shanghai Domain Ranking - our university ranked between 151-200 in the discipline of Oceanography.
The GRAS ranking is a set of thematic lists created by the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, the organisation responsible for the so-called Shanghai Ranking (Academic Ranking of World Universities -…
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The University of Gdańsk has received a grant of €60,000 in the first edition of the CoARA Boost Cascade Funding competition. CoARA - Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment - is an international coalition of more than 700 research organisations, funding agencies and assessment bodies from around the world committed to reforming research assessment…
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Research work on bacteriophages conducted by prof. Robert Czajkowski, who specialises in research on bacterial viruses and bacteria infecting plants, has been completed. The invention ‘Method for obtaining phage-resistant strains of pectinolytic bacteria’ has been granted patent protection by the Polish Patent Office.
Bacteriophages (phages) are…
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In the heart of Kashubia, on the route of the Radunskie Lakes circle, is Borucino, where the UG Centre for Monitoring and Protection of Waters operates. We talked to dr Monika Sobiechowska-Sasim about the research conducted there
Upon entering the recently renovated building, we were enchanted by the view that greeted us outside the window. In addition…
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The call for candidates for the 3rd edition of the Special Award ‘I include gender in research’ for the highest ranked master's and doctoral theses including a gender perspective in the research area defended in 2023 and 2024 is prolonged until November 24, 2024. We encourage you to apply!
As part of the EU Horizon 2020 project Modifying Institutions by Developing Gender Equality Plans (MINDtheGEPs) implemented at the…