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Post by Bonobo on Jun 20, 2008 22:32:26 GMT 1
Łukasz Zbylut is a brilliant Pole who applied to 19 best American universities and was accepted by 18. - Born in Poland and moved to the United States when he was 13 years old. -- During the first six months in New York, he taught himself English and went to a public school in Brooklyn. -- Now at 18 years old, he graduating as the valedictorian from Utrecht High School next week -- In high school, he was part of Model UN, and created and headed the debate team. He was also part of a soccer team in his community. -- He applied to 21 universities, including 7 Ivy League schools. -- Out of the 21, Lukasz withdrew from 2, and was only denied by 1, MIT. -- Lukasz was accepted to: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Columbia, Georgetown, NYU, Middlebury, Amherst, Occidental, Richmond, Ohio Wesleyan, DePauw, Carnegie Mellon and CUNY HunterH -- He does not use social networking sites, instant messaging or watch entertainment television. He considers all of it a waste of time. He does, though, watch network news channels. -- While he was in high school he took 12 Advance Placement courses and received perfect scores on all his final A.P. tests. This gave him full credit towards college and a final count of 45 college credits at the end of it all. BUT according to Harvard rules, they are only accepting 6 of those 45 credits. (30 credits=1 year of college) -- Lukasz plans on going to Harvard Law after his undergrad and pursuing a career in politics from there. -- He is the only student from his graduating class to be accepted to an Ivy League school. (575 students graduating next week) www.nypost.com/seven/06172008/news/regionalnews/a_one_man_ivy_league_115894.htm |
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Post by valpomike on Jun 20, 2008 22:45:11 GMT 1
POLISH POWER WINS AGAIN
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Post by gigi on Jun 21, 2008 0:23:46 GMT 1
He sounds like an impressive young man. Any of those schools would be fortunate to have him!  |
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Post by Bonobo on Jun 21, 2008 21:26:29 GMT 1
He sounds like an impressive young man. Any of those schools would be fortunate to have him! Yes. Students in Polish high schools have to be clever. Teachers give a lot of homework and material to master, sometimes overnight. They do things which in the USA are introduced at the university. ;D ;D ;D Gigi, what does the ring he is wearing mean? Is it trendy in American school? |
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Post by gigi on Jun 22, 2008 17:06:25 GMT 1
Gigi, what does the ring he is wearing mean? Is it trendy in American school? American students often wear a class ring, which usually has either their birthstone or a stone that matches a school color and the year of their graduation. The ring the Polish student is wearing looks more like a band versus the larger American class ring, but perhaps it is the same concept. The ring is usually worn on the ring finger of the right hand. |
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Post by Bonobo on Jun 17, 2010 21:22:45 GMT 1
Polish team third in Mars rover contest
09.06.2010 16:47
A team of Polish university students have come third in a contest in the US to design a vehicle to explore the service of the red planet.
Poland�s �Magma� team took third place in the University Rover Challenge 2010 organized in the US state of Utah.
The Poles took the podium along with two American teams from the Oregon State University and York University. Seven teams participated in the contest which takes place in the Utah desert.
The Magma project was carried out by students of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun and the University of Technology in Bialystok in cooperation with the Mars Society Poland.
�The tasks of the competition are very complex,� Wojciech Głażewski from the Magma team told the PAP news agency before the competition. �The rover has to overcome a distance of several hundred meters and transmit an image to the base station.�
Participants of the contest had to build a vehicle capable of crossing long distances in difficult area and perform two types of tasks: examine the surface of Mars in terms of geology and look for possible life on Mars, as well as replace humans in maintenance works.
The Magma team plans to use its rover as an educational tool at schools. Polish students will be able to control the rover remotely via internet, gaining hands-on experience with robotics and remote-controlled space exploration vehicles.   
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General appointed top NATO post
12.06.2010 08:22
Lt General Mieczyslaw Bieniek (left) is to be deputy commander at NATO headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, US - the highest position a Pole has attained within the Atlantic alliance.
Defence Minister Bogdan Klich, refused to confirm the position simply however, saying a decision will be made "soon."
The PAP news agency reports that initially, Gen. Mieczyslaw Cieniuch was to fill the post. However, after the death of General Francis Gągor in the Smolensk air disaster General Cieniuch became the new head of the General Staff.
The post of deputy commander at NATO’s Allied Command Transformation in Norfolk is a very prestigious position and Poland will share the post with rotation Italy, on a three year rotating basis. Four-star general positions in NATO positions are currently occupied by Americans, British, Germans, French and Italians. Poland will now be the sixth country to occupy a post at this level.
General Mieczyslaw Bieniek has been Poland’s representative at NATO's Military Committee. Currently he is a three, not four star general, but by September, when Bieniek take sup his new role the Polish president, who is chief of the armed forces, will issue the general with the missing fourth star.
General Bieniek’s career in the Polish armed forces dates back to 1968 when he joined the army as a cadet. By 1985 he risen to commander of the 16th Airborne Battalion in the 6th Airborne Division where he served until 1989. Promoted to Lt Col in 1989, he was appointed as COS and then CO of the Polish Contingent on the Golan Heights in the UNDOF UN Mission where he served until 1991.
January 2007 until August 2007 he became Special Envoy of the SACEUR in AFGAHANISTAN where he served as an advisor of the Afghan Minister of Defence. In October 2007 he took office in the Defence Ministry where he served as a senior military advisor.
He is married with four children.www.thenews.pl/international/artykul133413_general-appointed-top-nato-post-.html |
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 15, 2010 21:23:41 GMT 1
Poles win gold in world bridge championship
15.10.2010 09:18
Poland has won gold in the U-25 ladies bridge championships in Philadelphia, while an adult mixed international team, headed by a Pole, has taken second place.
The Polish U-25 ladies bridge team beat France 131:97 to take the top spot, with China coming in third after beating the USA 114:97.
The adult international team comprised a number of Poles, as well as an American, Dutchman and an Israeli. The team, led by Wiktor Markowicz, came second, losing out to Team Hackett/UK 50:111.
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Post by valpomike on Oct 16, 2010 1:57:08 GMT 1
The Polish will win each time, when it comes to cards, and drinking, and hot women.
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 18, 2010 21:51:18 GMT 1
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Poland moves into top ten Danish trade partner
18.10.2010 16:50
Poland, together with China, has been ranked among Denmark’s top 10 trading partners.
The two nations have taken the places of Japan and Finland in terms of trade volume, reports Copenhagen’s Berlingske Tidende daily.
Another newspaper, Politiken, has examples of some five hundred Danish companies operating in Poland, starting from the Jisk chain specializing in interior decoration and household appliances, through Hempel and Flugger paint producers, to Royal Greenland fish processing and the Dong Energy consortium, which constructed three wind farms in Poland’s coastal Western Pomerania district.
It is estimated that 20 to 30,000 jobs have been created in Poland thanks to Danish investments
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Post by tufta on Oct 18, 2010 22:03:06 GMT 1
Politiken, has examples of some five hundred Danish companies operating in Poland, Shame the Danish press doesn't mention Danish Velux firm's using unfair competition methods against Polish Fakro... |
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Post by Bonobo on Dec 31, 2010 13:23:05 GMT 1
Politiken, has examples of some five hundred Danish companies operating in Poland, Shame the Danish press doesn't mention Danish Velux firm's using unfair competition methods against Polish Fakro... T-fta- you must have obtained insider`s information. Do you know it is illegal? ;D ;D ;D ;D
SOHO spacecraft discovers its 2,000th comet
Amateur astronomer who identified it has already spotted more than 100
As people on Earth prepare to mark the passage of another year, a sun-studying spacecraft has quietly reached a big milestone of its own: discovering its 2,000th comet.
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, a probe operated jointly by NASA and the European Space Agency, detected comet No. 2,000 on Dec. 26. SOHO, which draws on help from citizen scientists around the world, is the single greatest comet-finder of all time, researchers said.
This is an impressive show of versatility, since SOHO was designed to monitor the sun, not look for comets.
"Since it launched on December 2, 1995, to observe the sun, SOHO has more than doubled the number of comets for which orbits have been determined over the last 300 years," Joe Gurman, the U.S. project scientist for SOHO at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., said in a statement.
Amateur astronomers helping out
SOHO itself does not really discover comets. Scores of amateur astronomer volunteers make the finds, after poring over the pictures produced by SOHO's cameras.
More than 70 people from 18 different countries have helped spot comets over the last 15 years by searching through the publicly available SOHO images online, NASA officials said.
Comets No. 1,999 and 2,000 were both discovered on Dec. 26 by Michal Kusiak, an astronomy student at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Kusiak found his first SOHO comet in November 2007 and has since found more than 100, according to NASA officials.
"There are a lot of people who do it," said Karl Battams, who runs the SOHO comet-sighting website for the Naval Research Lab in Washington, D.C., and also does computer processing for the spacecraft's cameras. "They do it for free, they're extremely thorough, and if it wasn't for these people, most of this stuff would never see the light of day."
Battams receives reports from people who think that a fuzzy blip in SOHO's images might be a comet. He confirms the finds, gives each comet an unofficial number and then sends the information off to the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., which categorizes small astronomical bodies and their orbits.
It took SOHO 10 years to spot its first 1,000 comets, researchers said, but only five more years to find the next thousand. That's due partly to increased participation from comet hunters and work done to optimize the images for comet-sighting. [ The Best Comet Photos of All Time]
But the acceleration in comet finds may also be due partly to an unexplained systematic increase in the number of comets circling the sun. Indeed, December alone has seen an unprecedented 37 new comets spotted so far, a number high enough to qualify as a "comet storm," NASA officials said.
A sun-studying spacecraft
SOHO's cameras were not designed primarily to spot comets. The craft's cameras block out the brightest part of the sun to better watch emissions in the sun's much fainter outer atmosphere, or corona.
SOHO's comet-finding skills are a natural side effect; with the sun blocked, it's also much easier to see dimmer objects such as comets, researchers said.
"But there is definitely a lot of science that comes with these comets," Battams said. "First, now we know there are far more comets in the inner solar system than we were previously aware of, and that can tell us a lot about where such things come from and how they're formed originally and break up. We can tell that a lot of these comets all have a common origin."
About 85 percent of the comets discovered by SOHO are thought to come from a single group known as the Kreutz family, Battams added. The Kreutz family is believed to be the remnants of a single large comet that broke up several hundred years ago.
The Kreutz family comets are "sungrazers" — bodies whose orbits take them so close to the sun that most are vaporized within hours of discovery. But many of the other comets discovered by SOHO boomerang around the sun and return periodically, researchers said. One frequent visitor is comet 96P Machholz, which orbits the sun every six years and has now been seen by SOHO three times. |
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 3, 2011 20:49:56 GMT 1
The expedition "Transatlantic" by Aleksander Doba has successfully finished yesterday.
Yesterday's evening Aleksander spent with friends, celebrating his outstanding success. In local restaurant he ordered the cold beer and seafoods with fresh vegetables. The Man 
We also have some official statistics:
* The first touch to the dry land in Brazil, Feb 2nd, 2011, 2:10pm local time
* The end of the expedition in port of Acarau: 5:50pm
* Total distance: 3345 miles = 5384 km
* Total time: 99 days, 6 hours, 20 minutes
* Today Aleksander has medical examination and the press conference in Fortaleza.
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Post by Bonobo on Mar 20, 2011 15:10:27 GMT 1
Pole voted best doctor in Sweden, again
16.03.2011 11:49
A Polish gynaecologist working in the Swedish city of Malmoe has been awarded the title of the best doctor in Sweden.
It is the second time that Dr Adam Szelag has been honoured by his Swedish patients, following a similar accolade he received in 2010.
The competition is organised annually by the largest Swedish portal for patients Doctorsguiden.se, with the ranking based on the opinions of patients.
Dr.Szelag , pleased with the honour, underlines that it is an appreciation not only for his work, but also an expression of warm feeling towards all Poles.
The Polish doctor also expressed the hope that the fact that his work is appreciated in Sweden, will help improve the image of the Polish health service, which has been very sharply criticised by Swedish media following two unsuccessful surgeries conducted in Poland on Swedish citizens.
Dr.Szelag has lived in Sweden since 1987, and works in a private clinic where the costs of treatment are reimbursed from public funds. He has over 10,000 patients under his care; 500 are Poles.  ====================================================
Polish painter wins American accolade
17.03.2011 09:03
Poland’s stage designer and painter Rafal Olbinski has been awarded the silver medal by the American Society of Illustrators. The artist has been honoured for his cover to the opera “La Donna Di Lago” by Gioachino Rossini.
The New York based society grants its annual awards in the category of books, periodicals, advertisements and film promoting material. The annual exhibition during which the laureates are selected is open to artists worldwide and thousands of entries are considered by a professional jury.
Rafal Olbinski was awarded for his poster and the cover to the CD with the opera for the Allegro publishers from Portland in Oregon, where the most prestigious recordings are done.
Olbinski is the main illustrator, dealing with posters and covers, which is an unprecedented distinction. It is not the first time that the Polish artist was honoured by the Society of Illustrators.
In the past 20 years he has received five medals, two gold and three silver. The artist admitted that he was pleasantly surprised since he was most probably the oldest laureate this year, that his work is still appreciated.
Olbinski was born in Poland in the city of Kielce, he graduated from the department of
architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology.
In 1981 he emigrated to the USA, where he soon became widely known as painter, illustrator and set designer. His illustrations widely appear in major US and world publications such as Newsweek, Time, Playbor or Der Spiegel.
His paintings have been acquired by many world galleries and by numerous private collectors. He has also won the praise of critics for stage designs, among them Don Giovanni for the Opera Company of Philadelphia in 2002.
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Post by valpomike on Mar 20, 2011 18:57:38 GMT 1
Way to go, Polish, we lead the world in many things, these are just a few. Long Live Poland, and her great people.
Mike
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Post by Bonobo on Apr 1, 2011 22:00:25 GMT 1
Polish robots win international glory
30.03.2011 18:47
Polish robots competing in the annual RobotChallenge extravaganza in Vienna have trounced the opposition, seeing off 300 rival machines from 17 European countries.
Amongst the key designs is 'Hurricane', constructed by fourth year students from Krakow's University of Mining and Metallurgy.
Martin Okarma and Mariusz Kaczmarek are the brains behind the triumphant design, which emerged as an invincible model, winning in two categories.
'Hurricane' was first past the post in the 'Linefollower' race on flat terrain, likewise it successfully weaved amongst obstacles in the rough ground challenge.
Poland topped the medals table in the overall competition. Other Polish victors included 'Quasimodon', which vanquished the opposition in the 'Humanoid Sumo' showdown
RobotChallenge was founded in 2004, and draws dozens of bright minds to the Austrian capital each year.
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Post by Bonobo on Apr 18, 2011 22:59:42 GMT 1
Poland wins European cultural heritage awards
15.04.2011 08:24
Poland has received two awards for conservation projects involving important historical or cultural work in the annual Europa Nostra Prizes.
The Archaeological Museum in Gdansk has been awarded the EU’s annual Europa Nostra Prize in the for its refurbishment project of the old ‘Blue Lamb’ Granary.
Poland also received the Europa Nostra Prize in the ‘Dedicated Service’ category for preservation of abandoned tombs and cemeteries in Poland and Ukraine.
Twenty seven projects won the ‘Europa Nostra’ Prize, out of a total of 140 projects submitted by 31 countries. The presentation ceremony, on 10 June in Amsterdam, will be attended by the President of the ‘Europa Nostra’ Federation, the famous tenor and conductor Placido Domingo.
Built in the 16th century, the Granary in Gdansk was one of hundreds of granaries along the Motława River. Following numerous fires and wars, including the bombings of 1945, the ‘Blue Lamb’ is now the only granary with its original façade and internal wooden structure.
The award-winning project included historical and technical research, design work, conservation of the building’s load-bearing structure and elevations, repair of the roof, conservation of the interiors and the adaptation of the building into the Centre for Archaeological Education.
The project was co-financed by the Headley Trust Foundation in Britain.
The Europa Nostra Prize in the ‘Dedicated Service’ category went to Szymon Modrzejewski from Uście Gorlickie in south-eastern Poland in recognition of his two decades of work on the preservation of abandoned tombs and cemeteries in Poland and Ukraine.
The jury’s citation says that ‘he has recognised that their restoration enables those who live there today to create a human connection with the heritage of others and of the past. He has shown by example how our cultural heritage can contribute to a better understanding of those of varying faiths and ethnic backgrounds. He has selflessly given his own time and skill, and in so doing, has engaged local people and young people in caring for this heritage, which is not only ‘theirs’ but is important to all of us.’
Together with young volunteers, Szymon Modrzejewski has restored almost 1,500 items - monuments of roadside religious architecture and tombstones in over 110 mostly rural cemeteries (Ukrainian, Polish, Jewish, and German).
Having started as a simple volunteer himself, he has trained over 450 young people, many of whom keep returning to his summer camps.
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Post by Bonobo on May 30, 2011 18:44:14 GMT 1
Poland champions global furniture exports
24.05.2011
Poland is the fourth largest exporter of furniture globally, with exports amounting to 5.6 billion euro in 2010.
Poland comes fourth behind Italy, Germany and export leaders China, according to Tuesday’s Puls Biznesu daily.
While both Italian and German furniture exports are for exclusive markets, Polish furniture is regarded as less expensive but of good quality.
According to Puls Biznesu, exports in Polish furniture could rise by 5 percent in next decade.
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Post by Bonobo on Jun 19, 2011 12:14:46 GMT 1
Polish team third in Mars rover contest
09.06.2010 16:47
A team of Polish university students have come third in a contest in the US to design a vehicle to explore the service of the red planet.
This time Poles won:
Polish rover wins Mars Challenge
06.06.2011
The Magma 2 rover has won the prestigious University Rover Challenge competition for college students to design and build the next generation of Mars exploration craft.
Magma 2’s creators, a team from the Technical University in Bialystok, north-eastern Poland beat Canadians from York University and Americans from the Oregon State University.
Other Polish robots to enter the competition - Scorpio constructed at the Technical University in Wroc³aw and Copernicus from the Miko³aj Kopernik University in Torun - took fourth and sixth places respectively.
The three rovers from Poland were the only vehicles from Europe that qualified for the challenge.
The 2011 Mars Society’s University Rover Challenge was held between 2 and 4 June at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah.
During the three days of the contests robots had to perform complicated tasks, including terrain reconnaissance, looking for traces of life in soil samples nd delivering medical help to an injured astronaut.
Apart from financial awards, the winners of the challenge will have the chance to present their machine during the Mars Society Convention with the participation of experts from NASA.
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Krakow University takes bronze at 'Battle of the Brains'
02.06.2011
A team from the Jagiellonian University, Krakow has won the bronze medal at the International Collegiate Programming Contest in Orlando, Florida.
The team – Robert Obryk, Adam Polak and Maciej Wawro – solved seven out of eleven highly complex tasks modelled on real problems of modern business.
The Jagiellonian University has a very strong computer programming faculty which focuses on analytical methods in information systems management.
The Gold Medal went to students from Zhejiang University in China. All in all, eight teams came ahead of the students from Krakow as there were more than one team in the medal positions.
Two other Polish universities took part in the event, with Warsaw taking 13th place and Wroclaw 42nd.
The championships brought together teams from 105 universities from around the world.
Next year’s championships will be hosted by Warsaw University and will be held in the middle of May, under the honorary patronage of President Bronislaw Komorowski |
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Post by Bonobo on Jul 30, 2012 16:37:28 GMT 1
Polish uni students won the second place at international solar paneled boat competition in Holland: linklink |
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Post by uncltim on Jul 31, 2012 12:31:22 GMT 1
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Post by Bonobo on Feb 23, 2013 22:36:38 GMT 1
Polish archaeologists in Sudan claim 'unique' human settlement discovery
20.02.2013 14:32
Polish archaeologists working in Sudan have found remains of human settlements that appear to date back as far as 70,000 years.
If confirmed, the discovery in the Affad Basin of northern Sudan will challenge existing theories that our distant ancestors only began building permanent residences on leaving Africa and settling in Europe and Asia.
“The Middle Palaeolithic discoveries in Affad are absolutely unique,” enthused Dr Marta Osypinska, one of the members of the team, in an interview with the Polish Press Agency (PAP).
“Last season, we came across a few traces of a light wooden construction. But it's only with ongoing research that we have been able to locate the settlement precisely and identify other utility areas: a large workshop for processing flint... and an area for cutting up the carcasses of dead animals.”
The team will be cooperating at the site in the Nile Valley with academics from Oxford University, in a bid to further unravel the geological history of the area.
More information on the project, which is funded by Poland's National Science Centre, can be found at web site archeosudan.org.
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Post by Bonobo on May 29, 2013 19:22:51 GMT 1
Brits Buy Polish Technology
May 29, 2013
British company Simcyp Limited has paid zl.1.5 million for the rights to a method for the computer-based assessment of drug cardiotoxicity developed by Polish researchers at the Jagiellonian University Medical College in Cracow. Cardiotoxicity is a potential side effect of drugs involving damage to the heart caused by toxins.
The method, known as ToxComp technology, makes it possible to conduct online clinical trials during which the effectiveness and safety of chemical compounds intended for medical treatment can be checked.
ToxComp technology is a multi-component program consisting of a computer application that makes it possible to simulate the impact of drugs on human cardiac muscle cells. The system is the product of work by a research team led by Dr. Sebastian Polak from the Unit of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at the Jagiellonian University Medical College. Work on the system began in 2010 and was financed by Poland’s National Center for Research and Development (NCBiR).
“The modular computer system uses the results of simulations of the physiology of human cardiomyocytes, or heart muscle cells, enabling the assessment of chemical substances at the level of the whole population,” says Polak. The research sample is arranged in such a way so as to take into account intra-individual variability, i.e. the possibility of different reactions to the same substance. Such an approach makes it possible to assess the risk of potential toxic effects without human involvement and without health and financial risks related to the potential dangers of drug research.
The Simcyp company says it bought the technology from the Jagiellonian University researchers to bring it to the market. The company specializes in developing IT tools for drug research. The contract has been midwived by the Jagiellonian University Center for Innovation, Technology Transfer and Development (CITTRU), which is responsible for the commercial application of intellectual property developed at the Jagiellonian University.
“Negotiations with the Simcyp company began in the second half of 2012,” says Radosław Rudź, Ph.D., from the Jagiellonian University Center for Innovation, Technology Transfer and Development, who is one of those responsible for the business side of the project. “From the beginning, Simcyp was not interested in acquiring a license to use the technology. The company wanted to have exclusive rights to it and develop it further.”
Further research and development work on the project, funded by Simcyp, will be conducted in Poland by Polak’s team. The project will last two more years.
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Post by Bonobo on Jun 6, 2013 23:06:17 GMT 1
Polish team third in Mars rover contest
09.06.2010 16:47
A team of Polish university students have come third in a contest in the US to design a vehicle to explore the service of the red planet.
Poland�s �Magma� team took third place in the University Rover Challenge 2010 organized in the US state of Utah.
This year the Poles were the best - they won the first and second place in the contest. Wow!
Polish robots win Martian competition
04.06.2013 USA
Will Polish engineers be constructing machines for exploring other planets in a few years from now? This seems increasingly likely given the latest success of students from the Bialystok University of Technology: last Saturday, their Hyperion Mars rover won the University Rover Challenge organized in the United States.
The University Rover Challenge (URC) is a competition that pits student-made Mars rovers against each other. The event is staged in a Utah desert by the Mars Society – an association that advocates rapid colonization of the Red Planet. In difficult Mars-like conditions, the robots had to perform tasks similar to those that await future colonizers: collect rock samples in search of traces of life, provide first aid kits to injured astronauts, and handle difficult terrain. Thirteen teams from the US, Canada, India and Poland took part in the competition.
This year’s winner – Hyperion – outclassed its rivals by scoring 493 out of 500 possible points, URC’s best ever result. The rover completed all the tasks in great style and in record time. It took the Polish robot a little over ten minutes to navigate obstacles for which the regular schedule allotted an hour. Ironically, it was rain that proved the biggest challenge to the team from the Polish region of Podlasie. “We’re a bit afraid of being accused by local witch doctors of bringing bad weather from Poland,” read the students’ post on Facebook.
It is the second time that a rover from Bialystok has won URC. In 2011, the Magma 2 robot took the top prize. Apart from the cash prize, this year’s winners also received an invitation to the annual Mars Society conference, which will be attended by NASA engineers and space industry representatives.
Scorpio 3 from the Wroclaw University of Technology came in second, with 401 points. The Wroclaw team successfully passed all the tests, losing points only due to minor technical shortcomings . The legendary Rover from the Rzeszow University of Technology took a lower place. This is because students from the Podkarpacie region had a streak of bad luck: first, they faced bureaucratic difficulties and arrived in Utah when the competition was already underway , and then their rover’s aerial broke down thus eliminating the team from the first URC stage. Still, they stood their ground, scoring an impressive 152 points.
The winning team consists of constructor Michał Grześ, electronic engineers Jacek Wojdyła and Jakub Maliszewski, software programmer Robert Bałdyga, engineer Ariel Lech and the project’s coordinator Piotr Ciura. The students were supervised by Dr. Kazimierza Dzierżek, Vice-Dean for Promotion and Co-operation at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Bialystok University of Technology. Polish teams taking part in the University Rover Challenge received grants from the “Generation of the Future” programme of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 31, 2016 22:04:00 GMT 1
Two Polish films honoured at Sundance
31.01.2016 13:58
The Sundance Film Festival gave prizes to two Polish films at an award ceremony on Saturday.
Director Michał Marczak (L) accepts the 'Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary' for the film 'All These Sleepless Nights' at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival awards ceremony in Park City, Utah, USA, 30 January 2016. Photo: EPA/GEORGE FREYDirector Michał Marczak (L) accepts the 'Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary' for the film 'All These Sleepless Nights' at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival awards ceremony in Park City, Utah, USA, 30 January 2016. Photo: EPA/GEORGE FREY
Polish director Michał Marczak took home the award for Best Director in the World Cinema Documentary competition for his documentary "All These Sleepless Nights”, about young residents in the Polish capital, Warsaw.
“Tipping its hat to the French New Wave, the film brings impressive stylistic and thematic cohesion to its hedonistic haze, with fluid images, a trippy tone and a flavorful soup of sonic textures,” wrote the Hollywood Reporter.
A special jury award was bestowed on Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s mermaid musical-horror film “The Lure”.
The film, which tells the unlikely story of two mermaid sisters who find work performing at a nightclub, was competing against 11 movies at the US festival.- See more at: www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/238807,Two-Polish-films-honoured-at-Sundance#sthash.OQwWJmpm.dpuf
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Post by Bonobo on Sept 18, 2016 20:49:46 GMT 1
18 yo Polish musician won European contest for young talents in Germany. www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=watch_live_eurovision_young_musicians_2016
Cologne, Germany
Poland's Łukasz Dyczko has won the eighteenth edition of Eurovision Young Musicians. The young saxophonist performed Waignein's Rhapsody pour Saxophone alto. He was chosen as the winner by the five-member professional jury. 11 countries participated in the competition which took place in Cologne, Germany.
Poland's Łukasz Dyczko wins €10,000 and will perform a solo concert with WDR's symphony orchestra. Robert Bílý representing the Czech Republic was awarded second prize (€7,000) whilst Dominik Wagner representing Austria took third prize (€3,000).
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 2, 2016 17:34:34 GMT 1
SOLARIS URBINO IS BUS OF THE YEAR 2017
[Solaris Bus and Coach S.A.] The Solaris Urbino has been named bus of the year 2017. It is the first title of this kind awarded to a Polish manufacturer, and at the same time it is the first time in the history of the competition that the award goes to a battery-driven vehicle. This year’s competition for bus of the year was held in Brussels. Ebusco, Irizar, Van Hool, Solaris and Mercedes competed for the ultimate prize. The first four producers entered the contest with electric buses, while Mercedes chose a natural gas (CNG) fuelled vehicle.
The new Solaris Urbino 12 electric, which was evaluated by a jury of editors from 20 countries, has been equipped with 240 kWh batteries. Two charging systems have been installed in the bus: one using a pantograph, for charging during stopovers at bus stops, the other one using a plug-in for charging in the bus depot. During the competition in Brussels the battery-powered Solaris was charged by way of a new-generation charger with a power output of 80 kW, designed and produced by Ekoenergetyka-Polska. The mobile charger of the plug-in type was connected to a post with a pantograph specially devised for this purpose. Thanks to this solution the driving range of the electric Urbino is practically unlimited.
The Bus of The Year contest for the best city bus has been organised since 1989. The winning vehicle receives the title of best bus for the whole next year, in the case of the current edition this would be the year 2017. The official “Bus of the Year 2017” prize awarding ceremony will take place during the IAA fair in Hannover, scheduled for September 2016.www.busworld.org/articles/detail/2954/solaris-urbino-is-bus-of-the-year-2017
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 9, 2016 13:57:13 GMT 1
Polish surgeon elected president of an international body 05.10.2016 07:23 Professor Marian Zembała has been elected President of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS). Marian Zembała. Photo: Wikimedia CommonsMarian Zembała. Photo: Wikimedia Commons  He will be the first Pole to head this prestigious society focusing on cardiovascular and thoracic surgery. Sixty five year-old Zembała is the director of the Silesian Centre for Heart Diseases in Zabrze, southern Poland. He was a student of the late Zbigniew Religa, who performed in Zabrze, in 1985, the first heart transplant surgery in Poland. Last year, Zembała served briefly, for five months, as health minister in the previous cabinet. He is a member of Parliament for the opposition Civic Platform party. Founded as a European organisation in 1986, EACTS currently has over 2,000 members in 70 countries. |
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