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Among less than 30 universities in Poland which run mentoring programmes, only the University of Wrocław and the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) can boast an impressive number of over 100 mentoring pairs in a single edition of the programme!

Mamy zaszczyt poinformować społeczność akademicką Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, że na wniosek prezesa Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej, postanowieniem Prezydenta Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej nr rej. 152/2024 o nadaniu odznaczeń z dnia 24 kwietnia 2024 roku za zasługi w działalności na rzecz niepodległości i suwerenności Polski oraz respektowania praw człowieka w Polskiej Rzeczpospolitej Ludowej, dr Dariusz Przybytek, kustosz w Oddziale Zbiorów Kartograficznych Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej we Wrocławiu, został Odznaczony Krzyżem Wolności i Solidarności.

Dr hab. Bartosz Szyszko, prof. UWr has been elected as a new member of the Academy of Young Scientists of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

We would like to kindly inform you that the journal “Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław”, which is published by the Institute of German Studies at the Faculty of Letters, has been accepted for indexation in the Scopus database.

As early as this summer, an ethnomusicological expedition will set off for Madagascar to investigate not only local music and customs, but also to listen to screaming lemurs and try to find traces of certain penguins. The activities of the research group can be followed and supported on the website of the Institute of Musicology of the University of Wrocław and the fb page of the Institute of Musicology UWr.

The Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the University of Wrocław ranked third in the 18th Ranking of Law Faculties of Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, published today. In the category of quality and strength of education, FLAE UWr is first in Poland. A place among the top law faculties is a huge success, achieved thanks to the staff, doctoral students and students of FLAE UWr.

Our students, together with students and lecturers from the University of the Commission of National Education in Kraków and the Medical University of Wrocław, reconstructed 17th- and 18th-century culinary recipes.

A quiet homemaker, occasionally forced to wrestle without any rules. An avid vegetarian, for which he paid the ultimate price. An object of worship whose smell could be smelled from miles away. We talk about the Pleistocene cave bear inhabiting the Bear Cave in Kletno – because it is the bear in question – with dr hab. Adrian Marciszak, prof. UWr.

Dr inż. Sławomir Potocki of the UWr Faculty of Chemistry has received a prestigious NCN Sonata Bis grant. Now he needs a research team to complete the project!

Recently, the BCUWr website published a preserved single page from the Latin Bible in St. Jerome’s translation, dating to the late 12th century. These are just a few passages from chapters 26-28 of the Book of Isaiah.