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Students from the SAE AeroDesign Student Research Group returned from the United States with several awards. In the SAE Aero Design West 2026 competition they achieved: 1^st place for technical documentation in the Regular class, as well as 3^rd place overall, 3^rd place for mission performance and 2^nd place for the presentation in the Advanced class. During the East edition they won: 1^st place for technical documentation and 7^th place for the presentation in the Regular class, as well as 5th place for technical documentation in the Advanced class.

The exhibition can be viewed until the end of June on the square by the fountain in front of the WUT Faculty of Physics building. It presents the three journeys our Nobel laureate made to the Apennine Peninsula. The exhibition brings together two anniversaries: the 100^th anniversary of Maria Skłodowska‑Curie being awarded an honorary doctorate by the Warsaw University of Technology and the 200^th anniversary of our university.

Students working in the Rocket Section design and test rocket systems and propulsion technologies. The team is currently focusing on preparing publications, including for the PAC 2026 conference, as well as on preparations for the FAR–OUT competition in the United States.

More than 15 million PLN from the European Funds for Mazovia programme will go to the Warsaw University of Technology. The funding will be allocated to the development and implementation of innovative technologies in the fields of aviation and printed electronics.

Representatives of Austrian Cooperative Research (ACR), as well as the Federal Ministry of Innovation, Mobility and Infrastructure and the Federal Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism, visited the Warsaw University of Technology. They met the Vice‑Rector for Research, Professor Mariusz Malinowski, and staff members from the Centre for Innovation, the Centre for Advanced Materials and Technologies CEZAMAT, and the Centre for International Cooperation. The discussions focused on technology transfer, research potential and scientific collaboration.

Students from the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology have won the Polish edition of Red Bull Basement 2026. The SwarmHub project, developed by Piotr Piwowarczyk and Michał Szajner, was recognised as the best in the country, giving its creators the opportunity to represent Poland at the world final in San Francisco.

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The Drone Section operating within the Robotics Student Research Group at the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering of Warsaw University of Technology has been active since 2023 and has quickly built a strong interdisciplinary team of around 30 members.

The Flogiston Chemical Student Research Group, operating at the Faculty of Chemistry of the Warsaw University of Technology, conducts activities in the field of materials chemistry and modern chemical technologies. One of the team’s key initiatives is the organisation of the YoungChem International Scientific Conference, now in its nineteenth edition. In parallel, the students are carrying out the PolyWIN research project, which focuses on developing a new polyester.

Students from the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science of WUT made a strong impact at this year’s edition of the global StarkHacks hackathon in the US. The HardCounter team consisted of Piotr Czechowski, Svetlana Gridina, Mateusz Błażejowski and Denis Lisovytskiy, while the CompMech team was formed by Aleksander Jeżowski and Rafał Lasota. HardCounter won 1st place in the main Microsoft track, AI & Automation, and 2nd place in the Best Use of Viam category for the project “RackMedic” (DataCenter Automata). CompMech took 2nd place in the Ford track with their project “Zero Depth”.

The CombAIns team, composed of students from the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science of Warsaw University of Technology, has achieved another success. During the international HackCarpathia 2026 hackathon, the team won in the MedTech category and ultimately took first place in the entire competition. Our students created the project “Be Ready”, an educational application focused on women’s health prevention. This is yet another strong performance by CombAIns at Hack Carpathia.

Representatives of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology dominated the prestigious engineering competition “Hall of The Year”, organised by the Czech Technical University (ČVUT) in Prague. Our students took first and second place in the academic category, demonstrating outstanding precision in the design and optimisation of lightweight timber structures.

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate data for training subsequent, more advanced models. They can learn from one another through hidden signal transfer, but they can also pass on undesirable features that persist even when the training data has been cleaned of the original attribute. These issues are the focus of the co‑authors of a paper published in Nature, including Anna Sztyber‑Betley, PhD, from the Faculty of Mechatronics of the Warsaw University of Technology.

How can the high effectiveness of industrial oil additives be combined with environmental responsibility? This question is addressed in the research of Dr Sabina Wilkanowicz, conducted at the interface of science and industry. The author, affiliated with the Płock Branch of the Warsaw University of Technology, and the company Pachemtech, has developed and tested environmentally-friendly additives for crude oil extraction that not only effectively separate oil-water emulsions but also reduce corrosion and meet environmental requirements for particularly sensitive areas such as marine waters.

The product, developed as part of a research and development project carried out by the Central Institute for Labour Protection – National Research Institute (CIOP PIB) in cooperation with the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering of the Warsaw University of Technology and the companies Gloves Technologies and Andropol SA, was awarded the MTP SAWO 2026 Gold Medal. The solution also received the Grand Prix of the Chief Commander of the State Fire Service.

The honorary doctorate was conferred during a ceremonial session of the Senate of WUT

Maksymilian Paczyński and Krzysztof Dąbrowski, students of the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, together with their team, won the main prize at the international “Hack4Sages” hackathon. The winning group also included Zofia Winnicka from Oxford University and Kacper Lisik from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. As their prize, the team will travel to the Origins Federation Conference 2026 in Switzerland.

Research on porphyrin derivatives is opening new perspectives in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The project carried out by researchers from the Faculty of Chemistry at the Warsaw University of Technology, implemented under the National Science Centre SONATA 19 competition, focuses on the synthesis of hybrid porphyrin–sugar glycoconjugates. These compounds may combine the ability of porphyrins to generate reactive oxygen species with improved solubility and increased biological selectivity.

The Organza Student Research Group, operating at the Faculty of Chemistry of the Warsaw University of Technology, carries out research projects at the intersection of engineering and design. The team’s main scientific focus includes wearable technologies and advanced sensors applied directly to textile materials. Beyond laboratory work, the organisation is active in building a community around the fashion sector through numerous events and socially oriented initiatives.

Our graduate, Piotr Falkowski, PhD, is developing two projects aimed at facilitating remote rehabilitation for patients. The initial idea for creating rehabilitation robots grew out of his industrial PhD carried out at the Warsaw University of Technology in cooperation with the Łukasiewicz Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements. Recently, both tools have received awards and have been presented at international exhibitions.

Students of the Faculty of Management – Veronika Stefaniak, Maksymilian Życiński and Mikołaj Piernicki – together with their supervisor, Mirosław Wójcik, took part in the international Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) titled “Future of Work”. The programme was organised by UC Leuven‑Limburg University of Applied Sciences in Diepenbeek, Belgium, and ran from 9 to 13 March 2026.

Prof. Artur Kasprzak from Warsaw University of Technology’s Faculty of Chemistry has joined the Editorial Advisory Board of Dalton Transactions, a journal published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, an institution of global standing.

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Students of the Faculty of Chemistry at the Warsaw University of Technology who want to expand their knowledge beyond the standard curriculum can take part in the Practical English Workshops. These classes are designed for those who wish to combine learning laboratory techniques with practicing professional English. The workshops take place in May and are led by passionate instructors. With no entry tests, exit tests, or reports required, participants enjoy a high degree of freedom in their work.