International students raise alarm over exam allegations
A Polish professor at the Medical University of Gdansk (MUG) is facing claims that he was caught boasting to two lecturers while visiting the Collegium Medicum at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Bydgoszcz, Poland, that the high number of students repeating anatomy had been providing a cash injection for the university.
Professor Janusz Morys – former rector of MUG (2008-16) – was reportedly heard telling colleagues that the exam raises so much money that people call it the ‘Morys fund’.
Under regulations unique among medical departments, students can repeat the first-year examination once, and the following years’ examinations twice at a cost which has risen to PLN10,600 (US$2,800) each time.
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How data from ALMA was used to form a musical composition
What the ALMA PILS survey is investigating
How arts and sciences can benefit from collaborating together We are all familiar with the awe we experience when looking up at the stars. For many people, this sense of wonder leads to inspiration. Astronomers look up and are inspired to know more about the weird and wonderful objects in the night sky, while artists and musicians, like Vera Matenaar from the Triagon Academy in Germany, are inspired to translate that wonder into a work of their own.
Vera used data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which ESO is a partner, as inspiration for a stunning musical composition, which you can listen to in the YouTube video below or on the ALMA Protostellar Interferometric Line Survey website. We find out more about the composition and the data behind it from Vera and some of the scientists involved: her supervisor Giulia Pero
Poland: Rebellion against coronavirus lockdowns
Increasingly, restaurants, guesthouses and ski resorts in Poland are reopening despite exisiting coronavirus restrictions. Courts say many lockdown rules are illegal.
Poles are showing solidarity with business owners fighting coronavirus restrictions, as here at the Goraleczka restaurant It s nice to eat out again, said one diner. We were very lucky to get a table, said another. This is how guests described on Facebook their visit to the Goraleczka restaurant in the southern Polish town of Zakopane over the weekend.
Restaurant owner Marek Lopata was one of the first restaurant owners in Poland to join the #WeOpenUp (#OtwieraMY) campaign and open his popular ski resort eatery despite coronavirus restrictions. Our income has been at zero since the end of October, he told DW. He said the situation had reached the point where he was forced to think about laying off staff, a move that would break me mentally.
MichaÅ JacuÅski is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of WrocÅaw, Poland. In his academic activity, he focuses on party politics, digital political communication, web campaigning and social media influence. He is one of the founders and guest editor of the Central European Journal of Communication.
Barbara BrodziÅska-Mirowska is Assistant Professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in ToruÅ, Poland. She is the author of articles on permanent communication, the professionalization of political communication and new media. Her scientific interests focus on political communication, political public relations, inter-electoral communication and mediatization of politics.
Anna PaczeÅniak is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of WrocÅaw, Poland. She is the author of over 100 scientific articles and chapters on the organization and internal life of parties, the EUâs political system and the role of women in polit