On March 14, we celebrate the number Pi. The date of the holiday was chosen for March 14 because of the association with the first digits of the decimal expansion of the number, as the date, March 14 is written as 3.14 in the USA. On this occasion, the staff of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science of the University of Gdańsk have prepared many popularisation events for primary school pupils. All…

Dr Monika Lipińska. Dr Monika Lipińska together with prof. Dariusz Szlachetko from the Department of Plant Taxonomy and Nature Conservation, Faculty of Biology, UG, have discovered an astonishing new species of a rare orchid for science. This plant, known from a limited area in the Carchi province, is probably a critically endangered species, as its rare…

Monument to the writer and artist Taras Shevchenko in Lviv In 1991, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ceased to exist and Ukraine declared its independence, and Poland was the first country to recognise this act. Since then, there has been a process of Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation, which, despite difficult periods and disputes over history, has…

EUROPEJSKI DZIEŃ LOGOPEDY The celebration of the European Day of the Speech Therapist will take place on March 3, 2022, at the Institute of Speech Therapy of the University of Gdańsk. The programme includes online speeches. A speech therapist is a specialist who deals with the prevention, diagnosis and therapy of speech, hearing and voice disorders in…

It's time for the third meeting organised under the 'Excellence Initiative - Research University' programme, where scientists specialising in in vivo and in vitro research talk about their work. The theme of the meeting, which starts on March 4, at 13:00, is 'TAZD-CBU as a leader of in vivo research projects of Tri-City universities'. The Tri-City Academic Animal Experimental Station - Research and Service Centre (TAZD…

February 19 is the Day of Polish Science. The date of this holiday is the birthday of Nicolaus Copernicus in appreciation of his outstanding contributions in the field of astronomy. This day is supposed to be an inspiration to follow in the footsteps of Polish researchers and strengthen interest in science. On this occasion, we take a look into the... young Universe. The…

St. Valentine's Day falls on February 14th and is called the holiday of lovers. Ewa Karolina Cichocka talks with prof. dr hab. Beata Możejko from the Faculty of History of UG about the roots and traditions of this holiday and the customs related to it that date back to the Middle Ages and even to antiquity. - Professor, the celebration of Valentine's Day, and the associated…

Ewa Karolina Cichocka talks with dr Iwona Pawliczka vel Pawlik, Head of the prof. Krzysztof Skóra Marine Station UG in Hel about the time of a seal birth, the intensified work of the Station, and the attentiveness of people walking the beaches at the turn of February and March. - February 12th marks the sixth anniversary of prof. Krzysztof Skóra's passing, the founder and long-time head of the Marine Station of the…

- 'I am moved to think that many years ago, in the Gdańsk Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, I tore the pages of her book, and today I can share with readers a colourful her-story about an inhabitant of our Pomeranian lands,' says dr Magdalena Izabella Sacha from the Philology Department of the University of Gdańsk. A meeting with the author of a three-volume…

The team of prof. dr hab. Adriana Zaleska-Medynska has received nearly one million PLN in the Small Grant Scheme competition. The winning project, 'Pioneering hybrid materials for CO2 photoconversion', aims to create a groundbreaking class of hybrid materials made of nanocrystals. The results of this research could have a positive impact on the development of solar cell and bioimaging technologies. The Small Grants…