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EDUCATION

Alma Mater Streaks Ahead

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Staff and students at the University of Warsaw have been running up an impressive tally of academic prizes and other accomplishments. Here is a brief rundown.

The Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) granted subsidies to three researchers from the University of Warsaw (UW) during its latest Powroty/Homing program. These were Paulina Dominiak, Ph.D., and Rafał Podeszwa, Ph.D., from the Department of Chemistry, and Piotr Waszczuk, Ph.D., from the Department of Physics.
Dr. Rafał Latał from the Department of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, and Prof. Jerzy Lewandowski from the Department of Physics, were among the 12 winners of this year's 10th FNP Mistrz (Master) competition.
The University of Warsaw won the recent 24th Polish Schools of Higher Learning Championships. It topped the overall classification and was rated Poland's most sporting school of higher learning.
Przemysław Dębiak, a student from the Department of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, won the Algorithm category of the 2006 Microsoft Imagine Cup as part of its "Battle of Skills."
Michał Kaczmarczyk, a Ph.D. student from the Department of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, is one of seven Poles to have been offered an internship at Microsoft's Redmond, WA, headquarters under the Microsoft in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Internship Program.
Aneta Popiel, a second-year student from the Interdisciplinary Individual Humanities Studies Program, has won a Goldman Sachs Global Leaders scholarship. Winners must have demonstrated leadership qualities and satisfy the scholarship committee that they are potential world leaders. The Goldman Sachs foundation has been offering its Global Leaders scholarship in conjunction with the Institute of International Education for six years.
The FNP granted 121 one-year scholarships in its 15th competition to find the nation's most talented young researches. Twenty-seven of them claim the UW as their alma mater.
A group of Polish researchers has proved that corals have a tremendous capacity to adapt to unfavorable conditions such as changes in the chemical composition of the sea. Dr. Radosław Przeniosło from the Institute of Experimental Physics at the Department of Physics, and Maciej Mazur, Ph.D., from the Physical Chemistry Faculty at the Department of Chemistry, have been analyzing the structure of Polish petrified corals from the Cretaceous period.