Małgorzata Piotrowska, Karol Pasternak, Radek Tabor, Filip Kurzewski and Maciej Podlewski (graduate), under the guidance of the architect Marek Rytych, came up with an over 80-kilometre-long underground tunnel with a huge colourful sphere of ca. 300-metre diameter.
Warsaw University of Technology has been awarded the third place among technical universities in the Ranking organised by the Academic Information Centre (ACI) in Poznań.
On the 15th of June 2009, Minister Bogdan Zdrojewski awarded the Annual Prize of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage to professor Stefan Kuryłowicz, PhD, DSc.