What was Adam Mickiewicz's lost utopia about? Who writes the most popular utopias today? And why does the dystopian vision of the world appear so often in young adult literature? This is what we are discussing with this year's winner of the Jan Hevelius Science Award of the City of Gdańsk in the field of humanities, prof. dr hab. Artur Blaim from the…

English scholar, a specialist in utopia and dystopia in culture prof. dr hab. Artur Blaim and oceanographer and chemist prof. dr hab. Hanna Mazur-Marzec are this year's winners of the Jan Hevelius Science Award of the City of Gdańsk. ‘Prof. Artur Blaim became famous for his research on literary utopia and dystopia in English culture. A spectacular…

mgr Vladyslav Ievtukhov In the third edition of the Young Fahrenheit competition, aimed at young employees, doctoral students, and students of the University of Gdańsk, the winner was mgr Vladyslav Ievtukhov. The third edition of the Young Fahrenheit competition, organised by Univentum Labs (a special purpose vehicle of the UG) with…

Fifteen butterflies have taken up residence in the paludarium on the first floor of the Faculty of Biology. They are specimens from the collection of Kacper Krajewski, a first-year Biology undergraduate student. They represent five species, all native to Asia, except Papilio demoleus, which is found in the Middle East. Dr Elizabeth Sontag from the…

The first BSL-3+ laboratory in northern Poland is about to begin work. On January 22, the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG and MUG held the official opening of a unique space where research into, among other things, coronavirus and tick-borne encephalitis virus will be conducted. The Minister of Science and Higher Education, Dariusz…

Memling Research Center UG  invites you to a new series of popular science lectures entitled 'Around Memling' on the works of Hans Memling and his contemporaries. Lectures will be delivered by the researchers lectures from the Institute of Art History, the Institute of History of the UG and guests. In the coming months, every last Thursday at 6.00 p.m., we invite you to Instytut Kultury Miejskiej, Kunszt Wodny, Gdańsk…

Professor Krystyna Bieńkowska-Szewczyk talks about Poland's most modern BSL3+ laboratory established at the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG and MUG and discusses working with viruses in an interview with Julia Bereszczyńska. Julia Bereszczynska: - BSL3+ Laboratory. This acronym sounds quite mysterious to someone who does not deal with virus…

The project 'AOP-Anchored in silico-based NAMs for design safer multicomponent nanomaterials' led by dr Karolina Jagiełło, dr Alicja Mikołajczyk and prof. Tomasz Puzyn from the Laboratory of Environmental Chemoinformatics of the UG Faculty of Chemistry has been nominated as one of nine projects from around the world for the Lush Prize 2024 in the…

The Biologists' Night at UG is becoming a more important event every year. Dozens of attractions, workshops and lectures attract representatives of all age groups. We could see how popular this event is on January 12 at the Faculty of Biology of UG and the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG and MUG. ‘I came here with my two children. We are…

After years of working in special services, dr Piotr Robakowski decided to use his experience in science. Currently, at the Institute of Political Sciences at the University of Gdańsk, he deals with security issues broadly, including security in medical institutions. We talk to our specialist about the causes of the recent attack on the premises of Charles University in Prague and the prevention of such incidents…