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Dr Barbara Jasiulis-Gołdyn, assistant professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the University of Wrocław, received the Smart Growth Leader Award.
The full-sea twelve-day Baltic expedition of the UWr Geoscience Student Scientific Association is over! The scientific adventure aboard the sailing ship Generał Zaruski, the ‘GeoBaltic Adventure – Sailing Through Time’, ended in Świnoujście on 15 August 2024. Research is now beginning on the basis of the materials collected during the voyage.
Her name means ‘bringer of light in the darkest of hours’, and now she brightens up the courtyard of the former Saint Joseph’s Convent even more.
Restoration work is underway on the statue of Saint Lucia adorning the courtyard of the former Saint Joseph’s Convent, UWr building at ul. Kuźnicza 35 in Wrocław.
Prof. Jakub Kierczak from the Department of Experimental Petrology of the Institute of Geological Sciences at the Faculty of Earth and Environmental Management has been awarded the European Mineralogical Union Medal for Research Excellence 2022. The medal was officially presented to him at last week’s European Mineralogical Conference 2024 in Dublin.
A team of researchers led by prof. Aldona Wiktorska-Święcka from the University of Wrocław is conducting research related to the development of a diagnosis of the model of cooperation between NGOs and the City of Wrocław as part of a project funded by the University of Wrocław’s Fund for Cooperation with the Social and Economic Environment.
In Poland, ticks search most intensively for a host in spring and autumn. The increase in interest in ticks (Ixodida) noted especially in recent decades is primarily related to the ability of these mites to transmit numerous pathogens. It is not without reason that ticks are considered one of the most important carriers of viruses, […]
A meeting between the Prime Minister of India and a group of Polish indologists representing four academic centres (UW, UJ, UAM and UWr) where indological studies are conducted took place in Warsaw. The University of Wrocław was represented at this meeting by dr hab. Przemysław Szczurek, prof. UWr, from the Department of Indian Studies (at the Institute of Classical, Mediterranean and Oriental Studies).
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‘Od średniowiecznego rękopisu do edycji cyfrowej’ (eng. From medieval manuscript to digital edition) – with this title, the Summer School organised by the Centre for Medieval Studies of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin in cooperation with the Library of the University of Wrocław (https://csm.kul.pl/szkola-letnia/) took place from 11-22 August.
Prof. dr hab. Edward Białek, the historian of literature, and head of the Department of Literature Didactics at the Institute of German Studies, was honoured with the Andreas Gryphius Prize for 2024, awarded for his significant contribution to the promotion of dialogue between Poles and Germans.
Apart from the missions of Polish palaeontologists in the 1960s and 1970s, archaeologists from the University of Wrocław are the only scientists from Poland working actively in the Gobi and southern Mongolia. They have just returned from another expedition. Which is the expedition of our scientists to Mongolia? Grzegorz Michalec, UWr Institute of Archaeology – […]
