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Research in mechanical engineering at Lodz University of Technology has been ranked highest in a global ranking by Research.com.

During the gala event of the 13th edition of the LEADER Programme, young researchers received grants awarded to them in the competition, in the form of symbolic cheques. A researcher from the Faculty of Process and Environmental Engineering at Lodz University of Technology, Lucyna Bilińska, Ph.D., received a cheque for PLN 1.5 million.

The results of the latest edition of the QS by subject ranking, one of the most prestigious international rankings, have been published. Lodz University of Technology was ranked in it for the first time, in as many as four disciplines.

On the first day of the calendar spring (21.03), the winners of the European Tree of the Year 2023 contest were announced. The first place went to the oak Fabrykant with 45,718 votes of internet users cast in favour of the tree which grows in Klepacz Park on the campus of Lodz University of Technology.

Wiktoria Gerlicz, a student of biotechnology at the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences at Lodz University of Technology, won the Rector's Award of Lodz University of Technology in the first edition of the programme for exceptionally talented students - E2TOP.

The winner of the first edition of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education's Pearls of Science competition was Emilia Brancewicz-Steinmetz, a doctoral candidate at the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School at TUL.

Sports and Education Centre of Lodz University of Technology - Sports Bay, received the DEMES Sports Business Award for 2022 in the category 'Small Sports Facility Management' at the 19th Sports and Business Gala.

The President of the Republic of Poland, in his decision from the 14th of February, granted the title of professor of engineering sciences in the discipline of civil engineering and transportation to Marcin Koniorczyk, Ph.D., D.Sc., from the Faculty of Construction, Architecture and Environmental Engineering at Lodz University of Technology.

The 29th edition of the Technical Review Award turned out to be lucky for two winners from Lodz University of Technology. Adam Rylski, Ph.D. received the title of Golden Engineer, and student Aleksandra Bednarek was awarded the Honorary Golden Engineer award.

President Andrzej Duda, by the decision of February 7, conferred the title of professor of chemical sciences on dr hab. Piotr Polanowski, Faculty of Chemistry at Lodz University of Technology.

This is the second time the University of Wroclaw will award the Heisig Prize, also known as ‘the Polish Nobel’, to outstanding scientists. The Senate of Lodz University of Technology passed a resolution to endorse prof. Tomasz Kapitaniak's (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering) nomination for the award.

Dr inż. Joanna Grzelczyk of the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Sciences, Lodz University of Technology, with a grant from the National Science Center (NCN), conducted research on the health-promoting compounds in green and roasted coffee beans. The results are very interesting.

Three international certificates: Chemistry Bachelor, Chemistry Euromaster and Chemical Technology Euromaster have been awarded to two fields of study conducted at the Faculty of Chemistry: chemistry (first and second cycle) and chemical technology (second cycle). This is the result of positive accreditation of both fields of study by the European Chemistry Thematic Network (ECTN), which was granted for a maximum period of six years, until 2028.

As many as 7 winning projects promoting science in the area of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) were submitted to the competition of Academic Lodz by students and secondary school students of Lodz University of Technology.

On Polish Science Day, observed on February 19, the Minister of Education and Science presented awards to outstanding scientists and research groups. Professor Marcin Kaminski of Lodz University of Technology is among the 45 individuals presented with the award for their contribution to science.