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Prof. dr hab. Anna Brytek-Matera from the Institute of Psychology at the University of Wrocław is developing a scientific project concerning the analysis of factors sustaining the symptoms of eating disorders. The research is being conducted at the University of Tokyo Medical School Hospital, which ranked 17th in the World’s Best Hospitals 2024 ranking and was named the best hospital in Japan.

The pilot and multidisciplinary research about the churchyard graveyards located near the Polish-Czech border is presented by scientists dr inż. Alicja Krzemińska, dr inż. Anna Zaręba from the Institute of Geography and Regional Development. The research results will be presented in the form of scientific articles, popular science lectures, and cyclically organised photo exhibitions, which will be available to see until the end of 2025. The first exhibition took place in the June of 2024, and the next on the 25th of October 2024.

On Tuesday, 29 October 2024, the Solemn Meeting of the Council of the Faculty of Social Communication and Media was held at the Oratorium Marianum.

We met this year’s winners of the NFP Prize (Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science), recognized as the highest scientific achievement in Poland. The NFP Prize was granted to four distinguished scholars, among them prof. Marcin Wodziński from Taube Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wrocław. Congratulations!

On Wednesday, 30 October 2024 at 2:30 pm in W. Świda Hall 2D of the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics, we will talk about:

The rectors of the universities of Wrocław and Opole invite to an open meeting of the College of Rectors of Universities of Wrocław and Opole on November 15 to celebrate the Feast of Science. The day before, a special concert will be held to celebrate the holiday in Wroclaw.

On the 23rd of October 2024, Maciej Kamiński, the head of Centre for Technology Transfer visited Łukasiewicz Research Network – ITECH Institute of Innovation and Technology. This meeting resulted from a collaboration contract signed between the University of Wrocław and the ITECH Institute of Innovation on the 23rd of September 2024.

The Historical Institute of the University of Wrocław is participating in the ReCall project implemented by Hungary’s Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest, entitled: A Study of Common Memory and Central European History for Collective Remembrance, which received funding from an Erasmus+ Tempus grant!

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It is with deep regret that we inform you that prof. dr hab. Mroziński passed away on 23 October 2024. Retired academic teacher at the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Wrocław. Long-time Head of the Molecular Magnetism Group and Head of the Department of Chemistry Didactics.

The fourth World Conference on Physics Education was held at the Jagiellonian University in August. One of the organisers of the event was the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Wrocław.

Over a month has passed since the catastrophic flood which in September 2024 affected a huge area of Central and Eastern Europe. We followed its enormous social and economic effects in the media. About the difficult job of our scientists in the flooded areas, about their emotions and dilemmas talks dr inż. Matylda Witek, assistant professor in the Department of Geoinformatics and Cartography, head of the Laboratory of Unmanned Aerial Earth Observation.