This week, a hard X-ray beam was obtained for the first time on the PolyX beamline. This is a milestone in the construction of the beamline, which is scheduled to be operational in 2023.
Carl Zimmer, Monika Utnik-Strugała and Piotr Socha, Jacques Le Goff, as well as Julita Mańczak and Jakub Małecki triumphed in the 7th Smart Book of the Year contest. As in previous years, there were 10 books for adults and 5 books for children nominated for the award. The contest is organised by the Jagiellonian University and the Smart Books website.
Dr Dominika Kwaśna and Dr Ewa Oleszycka are among 50 researchers from all over the world chosen to receive postdoctoral fellowships within the framework of the ERA Fellowship competition. As part of the grant, the two Polish scientists will carry out research at the Jagiellonian University.
The State Border Guard Clinical Hospital in Lviv will receive highly specialised equipment worth nearly 70 thousand zlotys, bought with money collected by the University Hospital in Kraków staff during an internal fundraising scheme aimed to help Ukraine.
On 14 May, the Jagiellonian University was visited by the Rector of the National University o Kharkiv Prof. Tatyana Kaganovska together with the former Rector of that higher education institutions Prof. Vilem Bakirov. They were received by the JU Vice-Rector for International Relations Prof. Dorota Malec along with Dr hab. Piotr Bajor, Prof. UJ from the JU Institute of Political Science and Prof. Leszek Korporowicz from the JU Institute of Intercultural Studies.
On 9 May 2022, Una Europa announced that University College Dublin (UCD) and Universität Zürich (UZH) will join its alliance of leading European research universities.
The Japanese government has made a decision to award former Rector of the Jagiellonian University Prof. Wojciech Nowak with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon for his contributions to Polish-Japanese cooperation. The decision was announced by the Embassy of Japan in Poland on 29 April 2022.
On 28 April 2022, the Jagiellonian University was visited by Rwandan Ambassador to Poland Prof. Anastase Shyaka. The diplomat was received by JU Rector Prof. Jacel Popiel along with JU Vice-Rector for International Relations Prof. Dorota Malec and JU Vice-Rector for Medical College Prof. Tomasz Grodzicki. After the meeting in Collegium Novum, the Ambassador took a tour of JU Museum Collegium Maius.
An international team of researchers working on the project ERA-Net-CVD PLAQUEFIGHT has discovered a way in which the brain might regulate the processes in blood vessels that are narrowed due to the build-up of atheromatous plaque. One of the participants of the project, Prof. Tomasz Guzik from the JU Faculty of Medicine, writes how this research could help treat heart disease in the future.
The JU again outperformed other Polish higher education and research institutions according to the ranking of world's top 2000 universities and research centres, recently published by the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR). Altogether, 40 Polish institutions were assessed in the ranking.
The Polish-American Fulbright Committee has announced the winners of this year's edition of the BioLAB programme. Fourteen students from the Jagiellonian University will get an year-long internship in one of four major research centres in Oklahoma, Chicago, Dallas and Charlottesville.
In early April, the Jagiellonian University Faculty of Chemistry joined the efforts in developing an efficient and sustainable battery. In an agreement signed by Prof. Wojciech Macyk, Dean of the Faculty, and Arild Skaaland, Chairman of the Board of the Norwegian company NorCelLi, both parties committed to carrying out a joint research project aimed to create the Climate Neutral Battery (CNB).