The University of Gdańsk significantly improves its position and advances to the podium in the ranking assessing sustainability activities in the areas of environmental impact, social impact, and governance. In the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2025, published on December 10, 2024, our university advanced significantly in all possible…

‘The two achievements awarded by the Nobel Committee have revolutionised the science of proteins. They have significantly facilitated the work of modern biotechnology and pharmaceutics, which use proteins as molecular targets, nanosensors, or nanomachines.’ Read the commentary by prof. dr. hab. Krzysztof Liberek of the Intercollegiate Faculty of…

Every year on December 10, when the Nobel Committees present their awards, they highlight some of the most important achievements and changes in our reality. Some make us hopeful, like advances in medicine, others fill us with anxiety, like the return of the spectre of nuclear war. Researchers from the University of Gdańsk talk about who won the Nobel Prize in 2024 and the direction the world of culture, science, and…

This year's Nobel Peace Prize winner is not a person, but an organisation - Nihon Hidankyō is a Japanese movement that has been calling for nuclear disarmament for nearly 70 years. Dr. hab. Arkadiusz Modrzejewski, prof. UG, Director of the Institute of Political Science, tells us why the Nobel Committee has now decided to honour these efforts. The…

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was not awarded for research that makes fundamental contributions to our understanding of the world, nor was it awarded for groundbreaking experimental methods. Dr Paweł Mazurek, Deputy Director of the Institute of Informatics at WMFI UG, tells us what guided the Nobel Committee this year. The Nobel Committee awarded the…

Human Acts (2014), We Do Not Part (2021) and White Book ( 2016), written during a visit to Warsaw - dr Bartosz Dąbrowski from the Faculty of Languages at UG discusses the work and character of this year's Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Han Kang. We invite you to read the commentary! The 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to South Korean writer…

According to this year's Nobel Prize winners in economics, what factors influence global growth? What is the human element in economics? And what is institutional economics? The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics is commented on by prof. dr hab. Jacek Zaucha of the Faculty of Economics. This year's Alfred Nobel Prize from the Bank of Sweden was awarded to…

Hel is one of the country's unique places that crowds of tourists visit yearly. In addition to numerous natural wonders, it is home to Poland's only Seal Rehabilitation Centre, which is part of the Prof. Krzysztof Skóra Marine Station of the Department of Oceanography and Geography at the University of Gdańsk. The station is commonly associated with…

fot. Alan Stocki/UG The invention of dr inż. Aneta Lewkowicz concerning an innovative method for visualising dactyloscopic traces has been granted protection by the Polish Patent Office. The invention will significantly affect the acquisition of fingerprint impressions made on difficult surfaces. The search for new ways of…

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…